Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The latest News and Information on Cloud monitoring, security and related technologies.

Five things everyone needs to know about their AWS environment that they can't see from Cloudwatch

At Splunk we love AWS, and we love all things Cloudwatch... it's a great source of data to collect and correlate. Sometimes we get asked "Why do I need Splunk when I have Cloudwatch dashboards?" What a great question! Join this session to learn about five critical insights about your AWS environment that you'll never get using Cloudwatch alone. Behold the power of Splunk's search and analysis platform!

How to Monitor Cloud Services and Why It Matters

In this webinar, we explain how—and why—tools like traceroute, when used as part of synthetic monitoring, provide deep insight into network problems such as SaaS or cloud application slowdowns. Presented by Michael Patterson, Kentik network technologist, founder and former CEO of Plixer Watch this on-demand webinar to learn.

Network Tips to Ensure a Successful AWS Migration

Join Kentik Cloud Solutions Architect, Ted Turner, and Kentik Solutions Architect, Jim Muggli, for this on-demand webinar discussion about the network solutions needed to ensure a successful AWS migration. Watch learn how to ensure your infrastructure team can overcome the top three AWS network challenges.

Best Practices for Cloud Logging

In our last episode, we covered how to best deploy and use Cloud Monitoring. This week, we answer the most important questions about Cloud Logging - what’s the best way to ingest logs? And how do you centralize logs and manage access? Watch this episode of Engineering for Reliability to learn some best practices for using Cloud Logging. Watch to learn how to keep your services reliable and your users happy.

AWS Savings Plan: All You Need to Know

Organizations using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud traditionally leveraged Reserved Instances (RI) to realize cost savings by committing to the use of a specific instance type and operating system within the AWS region. Nearly 2 years ago, AWS rolled out a new program called Savings Plans, which give companies a new way to reduce costs by making an advanced commitment of a one-year or three-year fixed term.

Serverless security hazards and trends to consider

Fourteen billion dollars – that’s the projected global market size for serverless, which is supposed to grow by about 26 percent annually in the next few years, according to the recent Global Serverless Architecture Market report. The fast pace of adoption of serverless is hardly surprising because the technology can save significant costs for companies. It can enable them to build and deploy software and digital products without providing and maintaining any virtual or physical servers.

Cloud cost management and optimization: How to regain control over your bill

The cloud is today one of the most expensive resources for any modern organization, second only to employee salaries and overhead. According to recent research by Gartner, end-user spending on public cloud services will reach $396 billion in 2021 and grow 21.7% to reach $482 billion in 2022. By 2026, Gartner predicts public cloud spending will exceed 45% of all enterprise IT spending, up from less than 17% in 2021.