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6 Best Azure FinOps Tools for Cost Optimization (2025)

FinOps is an evolving concept increasingly practiced in cloud computing organizations to manage and optimize their infrastructure cost. It requires team collaboration among Finance, Engineering and IT Operations to gain a deep understanding of the expenditure, take financial accountability, and make informed decisions to maximize the business performance.

7 Best Azure Service Bus Monitoring Tools in 2025

Azure Service Bus is a cloud messaging service that transfers information between services running in both the cloud and on-premises. So, it becomes essential to ensure the performance and availability of Service Bus as it might be used in applications and integrations for transferring business-critical messages. To help you with that, we have listed and compared the top Azure Service Bus monitoring tools with their features.

Top 10 DigitalOcean Alternatives to Consider in 2025

The 2025 cloud computing landscape presents a diverse array of options beyond DigitalOcean's familiar waters. As businesses outgrow basic cloud solutions, they're discovering platforms that better match their evolving needs. From startups seeking cost-effective scaling to enterprises demanding robust security features, today's cloud providers offer specialized solutions for every use case.

Top 6 Distributed Tracing Tools in 2025

Distributed tracing is the functionality to trace requests or messages flowing through different systems or environments like frontend, Backend, middleware. Distributed tracing brings connectivity or visibility of various services using a unique identifier. This identifier is passed to different services to correlate them as a single flow. We track data from different services with distributed tracing, but how do we visualize them? Visualization is a tedious task.

Top 5 Azure Monitoring tools to maximize application and service performance

Many organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud or begin leveraging what the cloud offers. However, to keep their businesses up and running during this process, organizations still require integrating their systems in the cloud, like Dynamics365, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, with Azure Integration Services (AIS) and potentially on-premises. One crucial aspect of such integrations is keeping them healthy and available, which requires monitoring and diagnostics.

What Is FinOps And How To Do It Right: A Quick Guide

DevOps. DevSecOps. AIOps. NoOps. RevOps. FinOps. It’s hard to keep up sometimes. No worries, though. CloudZero sits at the intersection of finance and operations — and we recently joined the FinOps Foundation, which brings together FinOps practitioners to collaborate, learn, and network. In this guide, we’ll discuss FinOps and why it matters to you as a SaaS company that relies on cloud services and OpEx financials.
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How Log Analytics Powers Four Essential CloudOps Use Cases

Cloud computing shapes the ability of enterprises to transform themselves and effectively compete. By renting elastic cloud resources, enterprises can support new customer platforms, distributed workforces, and back-office operations. The cross-functional discipline of CloudOps helps enterprises manage cloud resources by optimizing applications and infrastructure. But, none of this can be done without the right strategies and techniques to analyze your application telemetry data - primarily logs and events.

23 Lambda Metrics You Should Know

Developing an application is like composing a song. You know your intended outcome, and the creation is what gives you the jolt of adrenaline to keep going. However, your job isn’t over once you push the application live. You need to monitor and maintain it to ensure performance and cost optimization. AWS Lambda forwards metrics to CloudWatch once the function completes processing an event. Through the CloudWatch console, you can set alarms and build visualizations with these metrics.