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Create Alerts on Cloud Monitoring

Are you interested to know about alerts in Cloud Monitoring? Would you like to know how to create metric based alerts for Google cloud products through cloud monitoring? In this video we introduce you to Alerts in Cloud Monitoring, how it works, the different types of alerting policies. Watch this video to learn how to create metric based alerts for Google cloud products.

Migrating to an open-source private cloud platform: key considerations

Private clouds combine the many benefits of cloud computing, like elasticity, scalability and agility, with the security, access control and resource customisation of on-prem infrastructure. Private clouds allow financial institutions to have greater control over hardware and software choices. They make it easier to enforce compliance with regulatory standards.

3 Trade-offs to Consider When Deploying Apache Kafka in the Cloud

Maximizing the value of streaming data requires carefully navigating operational tradeoffs when developing and managing cloud native applications. Organizations that are rapidly producing and processing high volumes of data — like Netflix, Salesforce, Shopify and even the United States Postal Service (USPS), are constantly applying and testing new methods to manage the complexity of data streaming in the cloud.

How to Identify Unused, Wasted and Orphaned Azure Resources and Reduce Azure Cost?

Every article you find about reducing Azure cost will invariably mention ensuring any unused (especially PAYG) resources are identified and shut down/deleted. However very few actually will tell you “HOW” to do this. eG Enterprise has added new functionality to enable you to identify unused, wasted and orphaned Azure resources and services without the need to resort to hacking up KQL queries or PowerShell scripts.

Papertrail and AWS SNS

Operating a modern web application requires having a good handle on what’s going on with your application’s log data. But this doesn’t mean you need to keep the logs pulled up all the time. Sometimes, you want the flexibility to send important logged events to any number of places. The integration of SolarWinds® Papertrail™ and AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) can help you make this happen.

FAQ: SquaredUp Cloud

SquaredUp Cloud has been in development for over two years (we first previewed it at SquaredUp Live, Spring 2021). It continues our mission to unlock and summarize data – think of it like “BI for engineering”. In building SquaredUp Cloud, we drew upon what we’ve learned with our Microsoft solutions over the last ten years, and built a solution independent of any one tool, like SCOM.

Why and How to Monitor Amazon OpenSearch Service

Some time ago, AWS forked ElasticSearch, the most popular search engine on the planet. They had some struggles with the maintainer of ElasticSearch and decided it was time to part ways. So, with OpenSearch, there is now a new kid in town. Well, not new, but at least some kind of alternative.

PagerDuty Apps for AWS + Automated Diagnostics Demo Highlights (3 min.)

"Reduce downtime and customer impact with service ownership while enabling teams to drive continuous improvement and innovation Learn about how you can modernize and optimize your operations with our enterprise-grade set of AWS integrations. Automate incident response with PagerDuty’s Runbook Automation and learn about our new set of AWS plugins and prebuilt jobs that make it easier to get up and running with auto-diagnostics."