Balancing cost efficiency and high performance in cloud networks is a constant challenge, especially when misconfigurations or inefficient routing lead to inflated costs or degraded performance. Learn how Kentik Journeys simplifies traffic analysis, helping cloud engineers identify inefficiencies like unnecessary Transit Gateway routing.

After a focused period of design and development, the new Cloudsmith web app is now available to all customers at app.cloudsmith.com. The new web app replaces the existing cloudsmith.io, which will be fully decommissioned in June 2025.

Serverless architectures are the rental tux of computing. If you’re using AWS to manage and scale your underlying infrastructure, you’re renting compute time or storage space. Your Lambda functions are the tie or cummerbund you purchase to customize your rental. Using the AWS event-driven architecture improves business agility, allowing you to move quickly. Lambda is the on-demand compute services that runs custom code driving an event’s response.

A critical component of any monitoring and observability system is alerting. But alerts in and of themselves aren’t enough—when something goes wrong, time is of the essence, and your team needs to figure out not just what’s going on but how to fix it, and fast. Additionally, constantly chasing down alerts can be the bane of any observability practitioner’s existence.

We’re rolling out new visualization capabilities in the Explore log management interface that are available now in some accounts and will be added to all in the coming weeks and months. With these updates you can: Warm Tier: There is now a new option for log storage and access that bridges the gap between high-performance Hot storage and the low-cost Cold Tier. Reach out to your customer success team for more information.

Automation. It’s not something most of us think about often, and that’s the whole idea. But automation plays a critical role in the IT world, especially for those who remember when software had to be updated manually. That importance takes on an added urgency when you consider next-generation telecommunications networks, as a cloud architecture brings with it layers of complexity that make automation a necessity.

Continuing our series on setting up Prometheus in a container, this article provides a step-by-step guide for how to configure alerts in Prometheus. We will add alerting rules and deploy Prometheus Alertmanager with Slack integration. If you follow the steps in this article, you will end up with a containerized setup for: Let's get started.

AWS storage is often a top choice for enterprises due to its reliability and power to store large amounts of data for easy access. However, businesses may find it difficult to navigate and understand S3 storage costs, having to manage different storage classes, data transfer fees, and potential hidden charges. Without fully understanding AWS S3 storage costs, the pricing structure can become overwhelming and cost companies more than initially intended.

TLDR: We launched a community marketplace for Cortex Plugins! Share, discover, and implement plugins built to personalize and extend your experience. Learn how, why, and what to try first, below.

Picture this: Your team is scrambling during a system hiccup. Messages fly back and forth, everyone's checking different dashboards, and no one has the full picture. Sounds familiar? That's why more companies use internal status pages as their single source of truth. These private dashboards show you everything that matters.