I’ve already dropped a hint at this topic in a previous post of mine which reflected the history of Icinga on Windows: And this time I’m going to prove this concept, since both required components have been released by now: Icinga 2.14 and IfW 1.11. Precisely speaking, an existing Icinga master will run checks remotely on Windows, directly via the IfW REST API – without an intermediate agent.

DevOps is crucial for growing organizations, enhancing collaboration between development and operations teams to expedite deployment cycles and improve overall efficiency. Selecting the right DevOps engineer for your team, especially when new to DevOps, is vital. A poor hiring decision can significantly impact your organization, resulting in higher costs, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities.

As digital intensity rises in Australian SMEs, technology teams face significant challenges. The complexity of expanding technology architectures, the proliferation of applications, and reliance on diverse cloud environments exponentially increases the demand for IT support and operations.

Jul 17, 2024: Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed PostgreSQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance and upgrades of your PostgreSQL databases across private and public clouds. PostgreSQL is an open source database management system. It has been successfully used for more than 3 decades across all IT sectors. Its maturity and its vibrant community consistently make it a first-choice DBMS among developers.

Whether it’s 3 in the morning and you’re trying to resolve an outage, or you’re testing a new feature and you need to resolve a recurring issue so you can move on to your next task: time is of the essence. Wouldn’t it be great if your observability tooling could direct you to your “aha” moment, without you needing to fumble with writing a query?

Loki, a log aggregation system from Grafana, uses LogQL (Loki Query Language) to query logs. Whether you're just starting or need a quick reference, this cheat sheet covers the essentials. Let's dive into the syntax and functions of LogQL to make your log querying efficient and effective.

Before the development of AWS cost estimation tools, users faced challenges in predicting cloud costs due to complex pricing structures and multiple service configurations. This often led to surprise charges and made budgeting and optimizing cloud costs difficult. To address these issues, AWS introduced its own cost estimation tools. These include the Cost Explorer, the Pricing Calculator, AWS Budgets, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Trusted Advisor, and the AWS Cost and Usage Report.

Erik Peterson, our CTO and Founder here at CloudZero, recently hosted a webinar-style interview with Matthew “MJ” Jackson, DevOps Lead at Drift. This interview took a deep dive into the methods Drift used to take control of their cloud spending. If you own, manage, or otherwise have any stake in a SaaS company that heavily utilizes the cloud, you’ll want to read on to see the highlights of this conversation.

There’s no question that achieving end-to-end observability is among the most challenging tasks facing engineering and ops teams today. A quick look back at the 2024 Observability Pulse survey throws this conclusion into stark relief as: Logz.io is committed to making observability smarter, faster, and easier — from data ingestion, to troubleshooting, to managing costs.