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How to Monitor and Troubleshoot Multi-cloud Applications

Multicloud and hybrid cloud applications are deployed on multiple cloud vendor platforms, including on-premises private cloud. While these platforms offer tremendous benefits by providing a reliable and scalable platform for fuelling digital transformation, they also add significant monitoring complexity. Site reliability engineers (SRE) need multicloud monitoring visibility to: Why is this important?

How to build an EKS kubernetes cluster with Ubuntu 20.04 on FIPS mode

Many clients have specific requirements for running their EKS Kubernetes clusters with Ubuntu: OS alignment across platforms, sysadmin knowledge or specific kernel features such Real Time Kernel or FIPS mode. If your workloads need to run on FIPS mode for compliance, you will not only need to create your containers on FIPS mode (in other words, with FIPS certified crypto libraries) but also, since containers share kernel with host/worker nodes, you need to have also the worker node's kernel running on FIPS mode.

Collect traces, logs, and custom metrics from your Google Cloud Run services with Datadog

Google Cloud Run is a managed platform for the deployment, management, and scaling of workloads using serverless containers. You can deploy workloads in the cloud or, using Cloud Run for Anthos, on your on-prem infrastructure.

Upsun partners with MongoDB to help customers build modern applications faster

Today, we are excited to announce that Upsun now offers the latest version of MongoDB to our Enterprise and Elite customers. Clients can now enjoy improved visibility via one source of control, the ability to track multiple applications and users, and native, at-rest encryption that meets the latest security compliance standards. There are more details about the benefits of MongoDB below.

The Challenges of Multi-Cloud Management and How Observability Helps Solve Them

When I started my career in information technology, I worked for a large insurance company in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time, they exclusively used Lotus Notes, an IBM product. Even as Microsoft Outlook gained popularity and functionality, the cost of changing email clients was insurmountable, so the company continued using Lotus Notes for many years.

How to monitor Oracle DB with Google Cloud Platform

Monitor Oracle DB in Google Cloud Platform with the Google Ops Agent. The Ops Agent is available on GitHub, and makes it easy to collect and ship telemetry from dozens of sources directly to your Google Cloud Platform. You can check it out here! Below are steps to get up and running quickly with observIQ’s Google Cloud Platform integrations, and monitor metrics and logs from Oracle DB in your Google Cloud Platform.

Introducing ManageEngine CloudDNS for all your critical DNS infrastructure management needs

The DNS is the most critical part of network infrastructure and the only doorway to the internet. We at ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corp, understand this criticality well and have carefully designed software that helps IT infrastructure management professionals securely manage their domains’ DNS records and elude modern problems in DNS management. We’re excited to introduce ManageEngine CloudDNS, the first critical infrastructure management software in our portfolio.