Azure App Service is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to make, deploy, and scale web apps, mobile backends, and RESTful APIs efficiently. A powerful component of an organization’s cloud strategy, Azure App Service offers numerous advantages in terms of development, deployment, and operations.

When it comes to the best cloud monitoring tools, there are various services you can rely on or choose to support your IT infrastructure. After all, cloud monitoring is critical to ensure the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud services. Numerous teams in modern IT, SaaS, and app development companies, including DevOps, SREs, and security analysts depend on cloud monitoring solutions.

Despite the siren song of AI in the keynotes, visitors were far more focused on solving real-world problems. These are the issues that have plagued IT practitioners for years, if not decades: troubleshooting and validating performance and availability of their applications, services, and infrastructure.

Managing incoming web traffic for your applications is essential to ensuring optimal performance, preventing abuse, and maintaining the security of your cloud infrastructure. To accomplish this, one of the tools HAProxy Enterprise users have at their disposal is rate limiting—the practice of preventing clients from making too many requests and using system resources unfairly.

At Lumigo, building developer-first tools has always been at the forefront of our approach to troubleshooting and debugging. As developers ourselves, we have experienced firsthand the frustration and intricacies of sifting through logs looking for answers. We’ve also felt the pressure of the clock ticking, with production issues waiting to be resolved and the need for timely answers to surfaced application issues.

In today's dynamic cloud computing environment, effective monitoring of cloud services is essential. Developed in partnership with Google Cloud, Google Test Suite offers easy-to-deploy test templates to monitor your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.

Azure App Service rightsizing refers to adjusting the computing size allocated to an Azure App Service plan to achieve an optimal balance between cost and performance. It involves analyzing the resource utilization and selecting an appropriate computing power to meet your performance requirements while minimizing costs. Optimizing App service plan sizes is crucial for cost efficiency and performance enhancement.

Over the last few years, Google Cloud has grown at the fastest rate of any cloud service provider today. From 2020 to 2021, Google Cloud’s IaaS offering, GCP, grew 64%, followed by Microsoft Azure (51%) and Alibaba Cloud (42%), according to Gartner. Yet Google Cloud isn’t flawless. Here’s what we mean and some of the top Google Cloud alternatives you’ll want to consider today.

Lumigo is excited to announce its microservice troubleshooting platform now provides developers and DevOps with the power of OpenTelemetry (OTel) with a single click. Lumigo has long been the leading troubleshooting platform for serverless, but now, users can harness its best-in-class debugging and observability platform for all microservices-based environments.

Inspired by our own conversations with you at AWS re:Invent 2023, here’s what we think should be on your radar for 2024.