As an IT leader, you’re under significant pressure to control the constant alerts. Somehow, you must manage non-stop IT alerts while also ensuring ultra-high service availability. The task is far from easy, and even the most sophisticated teams struggle to keep up and turn alerts into action with tech stacks that are constantly growing in size and complexity. IT alert management is the first line of defense.

AI-related announcements dominate once more. New models for Bedrock. Vector search everywhere, and DynamoDB does a bait-and-switch. Welcome to day 3 of re:Invent 2023.

As we know, Microsoft Ignite is one of the premier conferences that developers and IT enthusiasts look forward to every year and it just concluded leaving the global audience all excited about the new capabilities that they can leverage while building innovative solutions. This edition was remarkable, with over 100+ announcements covering a range of topics from Windows and Microsoft 365 to Azure.

In the world of cloud computing, Azure is a leading player, offering a wide range of services for businesses of all sizes. As organizations continue to migrate their workloads to the cloud, cost management becomes a critical aspect of their strategy. Two key options for optimizing costs on Azure are Azure Savings Plans and Reserved Instances (RIs). In this blog, we will explore the differences between these two cost-saving mechanisms and help you decide which one is right for your organization.

The transition to cloud-native architectures has led to an explosion in metrics data, both in volume and cardinality. This necessitates the development of monitoring systems capable of managing large-scale, high-cardinality data to achieve effective observability in these environments . In this blog post, we’ll explore the important role of cardinality in monitoring and observability.

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) allows websites and web services to serve more requests from users by adding more servers based on need. There are several challenges to operating load balancers, as discussed in a previous blog post: Microservices Load Balancing: Navigating the Waves of Modern Architecture. An unhealthy ELB can cause your website to go offline or slow to a crawl.

Kubeapps is one of the open source projects that the Bitnami team at VMware contributes to, and it is among the 100+ pre-packaged open source images present in Bitnami Application Catalog and VMware Tanzu Application Catalog (the enterprise edition of Bitnami Application Catalog). This blog presents an overview of Kubeapps and how you can use it to simplify your Kubernetes application deployments.

Have you ever sat down and thought to yourself, “What’s new at Kentik?” Well, you’re in luck! Welcome to the first edition of a blog series to highlight the best and brightest of Kentik that month.

“What’s New in Sysdig” is back with the November 2023 edition! My name is Dimitris Vassilopoulos, based in London, United Kingdom, and I’m excited to share our latest feature releases with you!

In the dynamic landscape of microservices and cloud-native architectures, the role of service meshes has become increasingly crucial. These programmable frameworks empower users to seamlessly connect, secure, and observe their microservices, relieving them of the complexities associated with these critical tasks within their applications. Istio, a leading service mesh project, has been at the forefront of this evolution since its inception in 2017.