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Unleashing the Full Potential of FinOps: Going Beyond the Cloud

FinOps is beginning to take the enterprise by storm, but many enterprise IT leaders may be taking too narrow a view and risk falling into a trap. There’s a good reason for this upswing in FinOps attention: runaway cloud costs are becoming a significant challenge for enterprise IT leaders, particularly as they move legacy workloads to the cloud in earnest.

OpenSearch vs. Elasticsearch: Which is Better?

Following its release under the open-source Apache 2.0 license in 2010, Elasticsearch rose to prominence as the world’s most popular enterprise search engine. Elasticsearch is frequently deployed alongside Logstash and Kibana, a combination known as the ELK stack, to enable log analytics use cases that include application observability, security log analysis, and understanding user behavior.

HTTP Monitor Overview: What It Is, Why & How to Create One [Tutorial]

The World Wide Web’s transmission system is built on HTTP. To ensure an application that uses the HTTP transmission works, you must monitor it constantly. This is where an HTTP monitor comes in. In this tutorial, we’ll cover the fundamentals of HTTP monitors, including what they are, why they matter, and how to set one up.

Solr Monitoring Tools

Solr is widely adopted by startups and enterprises alike. It’s powerful and open-source, so it’s very appealing to just about everyone looking for a search platform to build off of. Being easily accessible, many people overlook the importance of monitoring Solr. Even when that importance is put into question, a lot of people continue with the trend and use an open-source tool for their monitoring needs.

Elastic's contribution: Invokedynamic in the OpenTelemetry Java agent

As the second largest and active Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, OpenTelemetry is well on its way to becoming the ubiquitous, unified standard and framework for observability. OpenTelemetry owes this success to its comprehensive and feature-rich toolset that allows users to retrieve valuable observability data from their applications with low effort. The OpenTelemetry Java agent is one of the most mature and feature-rich components in OpenTelemetry’s ecosystem.

How to measure operational maturity

All of the most reliable software is driven by great operations. Your organization’s operational maturity is a measure of how consistently you apply best practices for building reliable software. Without tracking your operational maturity, it’s extremely difficult to know where and how to improve—before it’s too late and an incident causes you to lose a customer.

How to Setup up SharePoint Alerts

Microsoft SharePoint stands as a robust web-based collaboration platform that has become indispensable for a myriad of organizations aiming for a streamlined and effective workflow management. Its seamless integration with Microsoft 365 unfolds a vista of functionalities, among which the feature of real-time notifications or alerts shines prominently.

Effortless Engineering: Quick Tips for Crafting Prompts

Large Language Models (LLMs) are all the rage in software development, and for good reason: they provide crucial opportunities to positively enhance our software. At Honeycomb, we saw an opportunity in the form of Query Assistant, a feature that can help engineers ask questions of their systems in plain English.