Observability is a measure of how well the internal state of a system can be inferred from its external outputs. It helps us understand what is happening in our application and troubleshoot problems when they arise. It’s an essential part of running production workloads and providing a reliable service that attracts and retains satisfied customers.

In the real world, when we implement systems, there are often many kinds of users, such as super business users and some level 1 support technicians who understand the application domain and can support a lot of your applications. Still, due to limited skills and experience with Azure, they are constrained to how much of the application they can help. A great example of this is when you have a solution that uses Azure Service Bus.

Azure Government is a dedicated cloud for public sector organizations that want to leverage Azure’s suite of services in their highly regulated environments. As these organizations migrate their applications to Azure Government, they need to ensure that they can maintain visibility into the status and health of their entire infrastructure.

If you’re familiar with InfluxDB Cloud, then you’re probably familiar with Flux already. Flux enables you to transform your data in any way you need and write custom tasks, checks, and notification rules. But what you might not know is that InfluxDB Cloud now supports API Invokable Scripts in Flux.

Cloud infrastructures have introduced increasing levels of complexity—you have to manage workloads across on-premises, private, and multiple public cloud environments. This requires you to migrate efficiently, optimize effectively, and stay rightsized on an ongoing basis, all while meeting evolving business requirements. With so many moving parts, it can be a massive challenge with lots of pitfalls that can cost you time and money and even put your business results in jeopardy.

FP&A is a strategic part of the finance organization and has the potential to drive important business outcomes. When done right, it can have a major positive impact on the future of the business. When done poorly, it can slow a company down. The role of FP&A has evolved. Today it isn’t just about taking inputs and crunching numbers — it’s about being a strategic advisor to the organization.

At Lumigo. we believe in serverless technology, and our mission is to make serverless development easy and fast. For the past few months, we’ve been extending our observability and debugging capabilities, making it a breeze for developers to understand the end-to-end story of every request that goes through the system, find the root causes of issues and be able to easily address them.

The need for relevant and contextual telemetry data to support online services has grown in the last decade as businesses undergo digital transformation. These data are typically the difference between proactively remediating application performance issues or costly service downtime. Distributed tracing is a key capability for improving application performance and reliability, as noted in SRE best practices.