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How to download an Azure VM

If you require a way to download your Azure Virtual Machine to either your on premise VMware or Hyper-V environment, perhaps because the cost of running that Azure VM is too high, or even for some compliance reason this blog will show you how to quickly download your Azure VM easily with Carbon. No need to download your Azure VM via powershell, or even downloading the VHD from the Azure portal. Carbon will download and convert your Azure VM to your hypervisor of choice with just a few clicks.

ObservabilityCON Day 2 recap: The latest Grafana Cloud tools for Prometheus to improve alerting, debugging, and scaling. Plus why continuous monitoring matters now

ObservabilityCON 2020 is live! This week Grafana Labs is bringing together the Grafana community for talks dedicated to observability. We hope you’re able to catch the great sessions we have planned. You can find the full schedule on the event page, and for additional information on viewing, participating in Q&As, and more, check out our quick guide to getting the most out of ObservabilityCON. Day 2 was dedicated to all things Prometheus — featuring new solutions and in-depth case studies.

Netdata's dashboard: open by default and secure by design

Let’s talk through a scenario: You have a Linux-based VM running on DigitalOcean (aka a Droplet), and you install Netdata on it using our recommended kickstart script. As the installation process winds down, the Droplet starts up the Netdata Agent’s web server and serves the local Agent web dashboard on port 19999.

Modern Monitoring

"Observability" - don't roll your eyes just yet. As application architectures change, and the relationship between applications and the infrastructure they run on is blurred, tech-enabled enterprises have to consider new practices for supporting them. Observability gives us an opportunity to embrace the new set of challenges and offer better approaches and strategies. In this episode, we talk about how the complexity of modern apps impacts the changes needed on the management plane.