Businesses move to the cloud for several reasons. For some, moving to the cloud means gaining access to the best enterprise-level technology without the associated costs of handling, maintaining, and managing the underlying infrastructure. For others (like startups), the ability to scale quickly and respond faster to market demands is at the top of the list.

As a DevOps engineer maintaining deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps, it's crucial to monitor several aspects to ensure the pipelines are efficient, reliable, and secure. Here are 10 key metrics you should focus on.

Open-source platforms are rapidly overtaking the proprietary software market as more people value open-source software's transparency and resources. We all have many options for tools to integrate into our lives, from media streaming to managing our files; choosing the right open-source tools can help save money and offer greater flexibility, encourage collaboration and shared knowledge within communities.

Pricing matters. Charge too little and you won’t earn enough revenue to stay afloat. Charge too much and you could lose thousands in potential business. You don’t want to price out some customers. So what can you do? This is where tiered pricing comes into play. The SaaS pricing approach can be helpful for companies looking to meet the needs and budgets of their different customer personas.

The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) service should provide high-performance block storage for Amazon EC2 instances. Yet, without careful management, Amazon EBS can become inefficient, leading to performance bottlenecks and cost overruns. For example, EBS volumes persist even after an EC2 instance has been terminated. The unused EBS volumes continue to incur costs.

One of our most commonly asked questions is when we will support Worker Groups in Azure. We’ve heard you loud and clear; some exciting news will make your data management much more straightforward. We’re introducing a Cribl-managed Cribl Stream data plane, also known as Worker Groups, in Microsoft Azure. These Worker Groups are oil to your engine—essential for data operations, handling everything from shaping and transforming to enriching and processing your data.

Azure App Registration is registering an application with Azure Entra ID to access the required Azure resources securely.

Cloud observability tools offer visibility into your cloud infrastructure. They collect data from various sources to help you understand your applications’ performance. The tools enable you to monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot your cloud environment. In this guide, we’ll share why cloud observability is important and the best tools to consider.

While major outages like the recent CrowdStrike incident dominate headlines, those of us in the trenches ensuring Internet Resilience know that most of our issues are not necessarily global but localized by geography, autonomous systems, or something else. Micro-outages – those elusive, localized incidents – can pose the most persistent threat to observability.