A large, global Data Management and AI software company with over 5,000 customers across more than 100 countries had seen unprecedented growth (more than 30% year over year) in telemetry data from their multi-cloud infrastructure being sent to the Elasticsearch Observability and SIEM Platform. The growth of this data contributed to a multi-million dollar price tag for Elasticsearch.

A Global 1000 E-commerce company struggled with the rapid growth in telemetry data that their security team analyzes with Splunk, Grafana, and other Observability tools in the cloud. Specifically, the increase in VPC Flow log and Firewall log volumes caused a spike in Splunk costs on certain data sets and triggered daily indexing limit overage fees. As this deluge of data began piling up in block storage within their Splunk index, the team saw corresponding spikes in storage costs.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re examining four use cases for AI in the ever-growing FinTech sector. The FinTech sector has transformed the discussion around the financial services industry from top to bottom.

My last thoughts on this blog were published some two and a half years ago, and the topic of RISE with SAP and where it best fits has evolved over time. By now, SAP RISE is familiar to the SAP marketplace and has become more understood and recognized – though how SAP markets the solution leaves some subtle and important details unclear.

At Squadcast, we advocate for the principles of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), which emphasize the critical importance of automating routine tasks to boost efficiency in Incident Management. We're aiding organizations in implementing these principles with one of our newest features: 'Workflows'. Workflows has been designed to automate manual facets of your Incident lifecycle, all while ensuring human-in-the-loop execution for critical decisions.

Mastering ConfigMaps in Kubernetes is crucial for anyone looking to streamline their container orchestration processes. This guide dives into the pivotal role of ConfigMaps in Kubernetes, detailing their function in managing non-confidential data as key-value pairs. We will explore their crucial role in decoupling configuration from container images and enhancing adaptability across various environments like development and production.

The release of 4.1 comes with some exciting updates. Web management address discovery now becomes a breeze with Autodetection. Firmware Updates now support Panduit Gen5 and nVent Enlogic EN2.0 rack PDUs. Not to mention, the Location Layout offers enhanced floor plan visualization with convenient export options. These updates and more provide you with better control and improved visibility.

Last week, we were very excited to host our first ever SquaredUp Virtual Customer Workshop! We’d received so much positive feedback on the intimate in-person workshop we ran in the UK last month that we wanted to extend the invitation worldwide – by recreating the experience virtually. Using the digital conferencing app Gather Town, we were pleased to welcome 23 SquaredUp customers from 12 countries to our virtual “SquaredUp Town”.

In this post I’m comparing cron monitoring features of four services: Cronitor, Healthchecks.io, Uptime Robot, Sentry. How I picked the services for comparison: I searched for “cron monitoring” on Google and picked the top results in their order of appearance. Disclaimer: I run Healthchecks.io, so I’m a biased source. I’ve tried to get the facts right, but choosing what features to compare, and what differences to highlight, is of course subjective.