A SaaS license audit is a systematic process to account for and manage these digital assets. Managing these licenses is crucial for organizations to ensure compliance, optimize costs, and maintain operational efficiency. However, some challenges make a SaaS license audit a resource-intensive task that requires careful planning, cross-departmental cooperation, and, often, specialized tools for tracking and analysis. These challenges include.

After the absolute barrage of announcements on day 0, day 1 brought us some mild excitement and one big disappointment…

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the 2023 AWS Partner Award winners, recognizing leaders around the globe playing a key role helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS. Announced during re:Invent 2023, AWS Partner Awards recognize our Top Partners of the Year and Rising Star Partners of the Year, whose business models have embraced specialization, innovation, and collaboration over the past year.

Cribl’s internal metrics are very handy for seeing what Cribl is doing. And while there are many data points related to input vs output volumes, sometimes you need more control over what you’re tracking. This pack allows you to route arbitrarily defined traffic through a stats tracker to capture changes in event count and volume. Perhaps you are onboarding a new host, or trialing a new Pipeline.

This is the fifth and final part of this FinOps series, The Operate Phase. If you have missed any of my previous blogs, here is a list of posts in the series: Note: I am ex-AWS, so you will notice a lot more focus on AWS tools and services as examples here, however we are cloud agnostic and all cloud providers have similar services and tools.

PagerDuty is an IT operations management platform and cloud computing company launched in 2009. They provide a suite of tools designed to help IT and DevOps teams detect and respond to infrastructure problems, streamline workflows, and improve operational reliability. The PagerDuty platform bridges different systems and the teams that maintain them, centralizing the detection and reporting of incidents. It allows organizations to minimize downtime and resolve issues efficiently.

DevOps isn’t just a methodology; it’s a culture that fosters collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement within an organization. Conducting a successful DevOps assessment is crucial for understanding where your team stands in its DevOps journey and identifying areas for enhancement. To ensure a comprehensive evaluation, focus on these four pillars.

This week, we announced that Cloudsmith has taken an impressive $11M in additional funding, hot on the heels of our $15M Series A two years ago. That's not just serious cash for a startup; it's a game-changer! The natural questions are: why did we take it, and what's our big-picture plan?

As an administrator of an expanding, highly distributed infrastructure, you may be responsible for overseeing thousands of on-premise and cloud resources from multiple providers—governed under dozens of accounts by a complex nest of RBAC rules. To query all these resources for purposes such as compliance audits and access management, you may be required to write custom scripts and painstakingly sift through data across disparate tools.

Learning about the past helps us understand the present, and even predict the future. So, whether you are monitoring CPU usage or how long your IoT device was powered on and then off, at some point, you might want to know the difference of a value over time. InfluxDB is an open source database for storing and retrieving time series data. Thanks to its own query languages — flux and InfluxQL — it provides different and powerful ways to analyze data.