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Integrating Google SecOps with Bindplane February 2025

Feb 27, 2025 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle) is Google Cloud’s security operations platform (SIEM) that helps you detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. Integrating Bindplane enables an easy way of standardizing how you efficiently collect, process, and forward security-relevant data to Google SecOps. In this live workshop you’ll get a hands-on demo of how to configure log collection with the Bindplane Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector, and best practices for data standardization using open standards and OpenTelemetry.
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Monitor Microsoft Azure in Grafana Cloud: simplify and centralize your cloud provider observability

Feb 26, 2025 By Vasil Kaftandzhiev In Grafana
Organizations around the world use Microsoft Azure to power their businesses. The cloud computing platform includes hundreds of products and services organizations can use to build and manage applications, but monitoring those environments can often feel like navigating a maze of fragmented data, tools, and processes.
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Webinar | Eliminate downtime and uncertainty with a smarter solution

Feb 26, 2025 By Upsun In Upsun
Discover how the right PaaS can reduce your IT team's stress, keeping them focused and well-rested. Join us for a transformative online session where we will discuss: Why IT leaders are moving away from hosting providers that keep them in the dark. How to scale and optimize infrastructure without adding complexity. How choosing the right platform allows your IT team to stay focused, productive, and well-rested.
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10 AWS Cost Monitoring Tools To Analyze And Save In 2025

Feb 26, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
AWS cost monitoring tools enable you to track your resource consumption and costs associated with running operations on the AWS platform. These tools vary in capabilities but typically offer customizable reporting, dashboarding, data analytics, built-in automation, and cost alerting. Keep in mind that AWS monitoring differs from AWS management in that monitoring provides usage and cost data without necessarily offering optimization tools.
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The challenges of agent-based monitoring for cloud virtual machines and how to overcome them

Feb 26, 2025 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Imagine discovering that 40% of your cloud infrastructure went unmonitored for a week because monitoring agents failed to deploy during an auto-scaling event. This scenario isn’t just hypothetical—it’s a growing reality for organizations relying on traditional agent-based monitoring in dynamic cloud environments.
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Agentless monitoring for cloud VMs: Simplify scaling and observability

Feb 26, 2025 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Managing cloud infrastructure is challenging enough without adding the burden of deploying and maintaining monitoring agents. What if there was a simpler, more efficient way to monitor your virtual machines (VMs)? In the first part of this series, we looked at the (link) and presented a better solution: agentless monitoring. Agentless monitoring is an efficient approach to observability that eliminates the need to install and manage software agents on each monitored device.
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From basics to benefits: A beginner's guide to cloud computing

Feb 26, 2025 By Arun Madhavan In Site24x7
Cloud computing powers everything from startups to global enterprises. With it, a new business can scale quickly without investing in expensive servers, while large organizations can store vast amounts of data and run applications seamlessly across the world. Simply put, cloud computing delivers computing resources over the internet that are scalable, cost-effective, and accessible—anytime, anywhere. Let’s break down the fundamentals of cloud computing and why it matters.
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How to avoid blowing the budget on Azure AI

Feb 26, 2025 By Adam Kinniburgh In Squared Up
So you had a great day playing with really awesome new tech, solving big business challenges, and feeling like you really nailed it. Then you wake up the next day to an alert from Azure telling you you've blown your monthly budget and its only the first week of the month. We've all been there... right? Using any cloud service comes with a cost, but for most services the budget risk is low. Cost calculated daily isn't a problem when usage is predictable, but not everything works like that.
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Optimizing AWS NAT Gateway Usage

Feb 25, 2025 By Phil Gervasi In Kentik
AWS NAT Gateways are essential for private subnet access but can quickly become a costly burden, even when idle. With Kentik, cloud and network engineers gain deep visibility into NAT Gateway traffic, allowing them to identify underutilized gateways, analyze high-cost usage, and explore cost-saving alternatives like VPC Endpoints, Internet Gateways, or direct peering.
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What is Entra ID? .... and how Entra ID has evolved since the Azure AD rebranding

Feb 25, 2025 By Priya Balasubramaniam In eG Innovations
Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service. This rebranding, announced in July 2023, is part of Microsoft’s broader Entra product family, which focuses on securing access to digital resources and managing identities in a comprehensive way.
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