Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Picture this. Over 90% of organizations use the cloud in one form or another, according to O'Reiley's research. Cloud computing is so popular because of its flexibility. Because you can access cloud computing resources on-demand, you can automatically increase or decrease resource usage depending on your workload, which is incredibly appealing — and quite different from traditional IT infrastructure. In 2023, controlling cloud spend is one of the greatest challenges for cloud users today.

Helm Dashboard is an open-source project which graphically shows installed Helm charts, revisions, and changes to their Kubernetes resources. The intents operator is an open-source Kubernetes operator which makes it possible to roll out network policies in a Kubernetes cluster, chart by chart, and gradually achieve zero trust or network segmentation.

Data management and transfer are essential components of the digital era. Whether you are an IT professional, a developer, or simply someone looking to move large amounts of data to the cloud, the efficiency and reliability of the process are paramount. That’s where AzCopy comes into the picture.

In this article, we will explore Azure Distributed Transaction Performance Monitoring using Serverless360’s new feature called BAM Duration Monitoring. Our primary focus will be effectively monitoring a long-running business process implemented using the dynamic combination of Logic Apps and Data Factory.

While there are an increasing number of off-the-shelf machine learning (ML) solutions that promise to adapt to your specific requirements, organizations that are serious about investing in ML for the long term are building their own workflows tailored exactly to their data and the outcomes they expect. To make full use of this investment, ML models must be kept up to date and working from the freshest available data.

We are excited to share another feature update with all our valued customers! We have recently gone live with our Key Based Deduplication feature, enabling you to define dedup keys using customizable templates for configured alert sources. With this feature, you can automatically group similar incidents and effectively deduplicate alerts.

Not to be confused with the popular children’s TV character, DORA is a new EU regulation for the financial sector, which stands for the Digital Operational Resilience Act. DORA became law on 16 January 2023 and will start to apply from 17 January 2025, so it’s crucial that senior executives in the financial sector, such as Chief Risk Officers and Chief Information Security Officers, understand its implications and prepare for compliance from day one.

Prometheus is an increasingly popular tool in the world of SREs and operational monitoring. Based on ideas from Google’s internal monitoring service (Borgmon), and with native support from services like Docker and Kubernetes, Prometheus is designed for a cloud-based, containerized world. As a result, it’s quite different from existing services like Graphite. ‍ Starting out, it can be tricky to know where to begin with the official Prometheus docs and the wave of recent Prom content.

Using Prometheus and Grafana together is a great combination of tools for monitoring an infrastructure. In this article, we will discuss how Prometheus can be connected with Grafana and what makes Prometheus different from the rest of the tools in the market. MetricFire's product, Hosted Graphite, runs Graphite (a Prometheus alternative) with Grafana dashboards for you so you can have the reliability and ease of use that is hard to get while doing it in-house.

Understanding the state of your systems and their underlying infrastructure at all times is paramount for ensuring the stability and reliability of your services. Up-to-date information about the performance and health of your deployments not only helps your team react to issues in real time, but it also gives them the security to make changes with confidence and to safely forecast system failures or performance hiccups even before they occur.