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An aerial view of your Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins pipeline landscape

Most engineering teams today have a multiplicity of tools to meet all of the different challenges they face. Some people characterize this as a problem and describe it as 'tool sprawl'. At SquaredUp, we just see it as a fact of life that no tool can excel at every job and engineers will want to choose the best tool for each task. Many companies have multiple toolchains spread across different teams and departments.
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Monitoring for operations of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

"Do I need to monitor SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition?" is the question many SAP customers are asking right now as projects are going live. As an SaaS product run by SAP, customers get access only through a public website, and SAP are responsible for the availability of that website and the hardware resources. The places where traditional monitoring focussed either aren't relevant, aren't visible, or superficially aren't the customer's problem anymore. Does that mean there is no need to monitor anything in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition?

LightMesh + AWS: Secure Subnet Discovery and Unified IPAM at Scale

LightMesh now integrates with AWS, providing automated discovery and unified management of your cloud networking resources. This powerful integration eliminates fragmented visibility across VPCs and regions, giving you real-time insights into your entire AWS infrastructure through a single, intuitive platform.

Better CloudWatch Metrics in Honeycomb with the OpenTelemetry Collector

CloudWatch metrics can be a very useful source of information for a number of AWS services that don’t produce telemetry as well as instrumented code. There are also a number of useful metrics for non-web-request based functions, like metrics on concurrent database requests. We use them at Honeycomb to get statistics on load balancers and RDS instances. The Amazon Data Firehose is able to export directly to Honeycomb as well, which makes getting the data into Honeycomb straightforward.

Top 6 EC2 rightsizing recommendations that you can't ignore

Imagine a day at work where you realize that your team’s youngest developer has failed to kill a compute instance; the bill spikes and the budget is breached. Rightsizing recommendations would come to the rescue and play a crucial role in such situations by identifying underutilized, overutilized, or mismanaged resources and suggesting corrective actions.

Debugging performance issues in Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus is a critical messaging service for building scalable cloud applications, but performance bottlenecks can lead to delayed message processing, throttling, or even dropped messages. It is essential to identify and resolve these issues to maintain smooth application workflows and prevent downtime. This blog explores common Azure Service Bus performance problems, provides step-by-step debugging strategies, and highlights how proactive monitoring can prevent recurring issues.

Global View: Optimizing Every Layer with Innovative New Capabilities for On-Premise

Managing a hybrid IT environment is more complex than ever, requiring real-time visibility, automation, and intelligent cost control across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Virtana’s latest innovations help organizations streamline operations, optimize costs, and enhance security, validating that every layer of IT—whether in the cloud or on-prem—operates at peak efficiency.

Container Observability: Optimizing Every Layer with Innovative New Capabilities for Kubernetes & Windows

Managing containerized workloads and Windows environments requires more than just basic monitoring—it demands deep observability to prevent performance bottlenecks, optimize costs, and accelerate troubleshooting. Virtana’s latest Container Observability enhancements provide IT teams with greater control, visibility, and analytics across Kubernetes and Windows-based workloads.

Infrastructure Observability: Optimizing Every Layer with Innovative New Capabilities

Modern IT environments are complex, spanning on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures. Without deep observability at every layer, performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and troubleshooting challenges can drain resources and impact business outcomes. Virtana’s latest Infrastructure Observability enhancements are designed to eliminate blind spots, automate performance tuning, and simplify IT operations.