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Monitoring Your Cloud Environments and Applications with InfluxDB

If you run your business on the cloud, you want to maximize what you’re getting for your money and ensure your cloud applications perform up to expectations. To do this, you will need a solid cloud monitoring strategy. This post covers different types of cloud monitoring, their benefits, and some best practices to set you on the right track.

Auto-generate documents on your Azure App registration details

Azure App Registration plays a crucial role in securing and managing the applications in your Azure environment enabling secure interaction with various Azure services. Given the importance of Azure App registration in authentication and security, this blog will provide a way to document its details and manage it effortlessly.

Azure Budget Monitoring - A Step-by-Step Guide

When it comes to managing costs in the Azure cloud, it is essential to have a reliable system that can help you keep track of your spending and alert you when you are getting close to exceeding your budget. This is where Turbo360’s Budgets monitoring feature comes in. The Budgets monitoring feature in Turbo360 is designed specifically for Azure cost monitoring.

Aiven for Dragonfly vs Aiven for Caching benchmarking

Aiven offers two powerful in-memory data stores - Aiven for Dragonfly and Aiven for Caching. In this post we help you make the optimal choice for your project. Speed is essential in the world of data access. When milliseconds matter, choosing the right in-memory data store can make or break your application's performance. This article delves into a head-to-head comparison of two prominent contenders that Aiven offers: Aiven for Dragonfly and Aiven for Caching.

Why Metrics are the Most Critical Data Type in Observability

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final installment of a series of blog posts previewing our State of Observability 2024 survey report. In last week’s episode of this blog series, we looked at whether observability is replacing or enhancing existing IT monitoring tools. This week, we’ll look at why metrics are the most important observability data type to ITOps teams and what's holding back tracing.

Introducing our Terraform provider: Dashboards as Code

Ever wished you could automatically generate a detailed and targeted dashboard at the end of your CI/CD pipeline for immediate visibility into your new deployments? Well, that’s exactly what we’re doing at SquaredUp, and we're excited to share our approach to integrating Dashboards as Code.

Canonical releases Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

London, 30 May 2024. Today Canonical announced the availability of Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. By ensuring high-priority processes are executed first, with deterministic response times, Real-time Ubuntu 24.04 LTS reduces latency compared to mainline Linux and enhances the system’s ability to handle time-sensitive operations effectively.

Here's How You Can Use Intune For Asset Management And Inventory

If you are in charge of doing IT Asset Management (ITAM) in this current mobile-centric world, a well-rounded option is to embrace Microsoft Intune for Mobile Device Management (MDM) and application security. But MDM is just a small part of ITAM. And it's only logical for your IT operations to have a centralized location with all your assets' information. Intune will help you with that but to some extent: it only collects data from Microsoft devices.

Open-Source Network Monitoring Tool vs. Paid: Pros & Cons

Choosing the right network monitoring tool is important for keeping your network running smoothly. But, when it comes to choosing the right tool, the decision often boils down to two primary options: open-source network monitoring and paid solutions. Each comes with its unique set of advantages and challenges, making the choice dependent on your specific needs and circumstances.

Creating Temporary Preview Environments Based On Pull Requests With Argo CD And Codefresh

In our big guide for Kubernetes deployments, we explained the benefits of using dynamic environments for testing. The general idea is that each developer gets a preview environment instead of having a fixed number of testing/QA environments. The environment gets created on the fly when you open a pull request. Typically, it gets destroyed when you merge the pull request (or after a specific amount of time).