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10 best practices for mastering Azure monitoring

A large percentage of enterprises are redefining their businesses around hybrid cloud ecosystems. The benefits include increased scalability and flexibility, improved collaboration, and cost efficiency. Microsoft Azure, one of the leading cloud computing platforms with a 23% market share in 2023, plays a key role in enabling hybrid cloud environments for organizations.

Top tips: 5 lessons learned from the recent Microsoft Azure disruption to survive the next cloud outage

The recent Microsoft Azure outage had a profound impact, disrupted services for countless businesses and individuals around the globe, and exposed the risks of relying exclusively on cloud solutions. This incident, triggered by a mix of technical failures and unexpected complications, resulted in substantial downtime, access issues, and operational interruptions across multiple industries.

Setting up and Understanding OpenTelemetry Collector Pipelines Through Visualization

Observability provides many business benefits, but comes with costs as well. Once the (not-insignificant) work of picking a platform, taking an inventory of your applications and infrastructure, and getting buyin from leadership (both from the business and engineering sides of the house) is done, you then have to actually instrument your applications to emit data, and build the data pipeline that sends that data to your observability system.

Debug (even) faster with 8 Sentry updates

Over the past few months, we introduced several new features and capabilities. While we released larger product updates like Trace Explorer, Insights modules, and our JavaScript V8 SDK (to name a few), it’s the smaller, iterative improvements that really make a big difference in your debugging workflow. Let’s dive into 8 recent updates that you should know about.

Unlock the Value of Cloud: Introducing Splunk Cloud Value Calculator

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud powered with AI capabilities to enhance efficiency, scalability and innovation. Splunk, a leader in security and data observability, has been at the forefront of this transformation.

Actionable Alarms Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building an Actionable Alarms dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of their SaaS solutions as well as how their end-user devices are performing. Dashboards allow combining both CloudReady and Service Watch data into a single pane of glass for visibility. Utilizing the Alarm widgets, users can quickly identify what issues need to be investigated while quickly being able to access the affected resources for review.

Improving Developer Efficiency

Developers are expensive to hire, and it takes time to get new hires up to speed. Getting the most out of developers and retaining them should be a priority for any organization. Fortunately, developers like creating new stuff, and organizations want new functionality. Therefore, if there was a way of minimizing the time spent fixing bugs, the new feature backlog would be reduced, and happy developers would stay around.

Service-Centric Cross-Cloud Network demo - AWS and Google Cloud

This demo showcases the capabilities of the Cross-Cloud Network. See how customers running on another cloud provider can, securely access services hosted on Google Cloud over a private Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection using Cross-Cloud Network products Speaker: Ishita Mehta-Desai, Network Specialist.

How to control your overage bills

We all know how tricky it can be to keep track of costs, especially when your projects spike or with the latest feature that your users love. That's why we've been working on a solution to ensure you never have surprise billing due to on-demand occurrences. Introducing our latest feature to give you both flexibility and control: Overage Budgets.

To the Cloud and Back: When and How to Execute a Cloud Repatriation Effort

The past few years have been dominated by digital transformation characterized by a move away from legacy on-premises systems to the cloud. However, there are also instances when bringing certain assets back from the cloud – a process known as “cloud repatriation” – can be a strategic and cost-effective move. Questions persist about when cloud repatriation makes sense and how organizations should craft their strategy.