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Product Release Notes January 2025

In the last few weeks, industry headlines once again brought the need for businesses to have complete cost visibility and proactive cost management strategies to the forefront of the constantly accelerating cloud and AI landscape. That’s why we’re excited to announce our latest product releases, designed to supercharge your cloud cost intelligence with deeper integrations into industry leaders like AWS and OpenAI.

How to Monitor Error Logs in Real-Time: An In-Depth Guide

For system admins and developers, being able to track error logs in real time is crucial. It’s not just about fixing problems; it’s about keeping everything running smoothly, ensuring systems perform at their best, and catching issues before they snowball into bigger ones. This guide breaks down the tools and commands that make real-time log monitoring easier and more effective, offering more than just the basics.

NGINX Log Monitoring: What It Is, How to Get Started, and Fix Issues

Ensuring that your web applications run smoothly and securely is essential. NGINX, known for its high performance and scalability, plays a key role in delivering web content. But to keep everything running efficiently, you need to monitor and analyze its logs properly. This guide will walk you through how to configure, analyze, and make the most of NGINX logs to stay on top of your server’s health.

Simple Talks Podcast | S2, Episode 2 - Introducing a new PostgreSQL book!

In this week's podcast, we are doing our very first "special episode". Two of the Redgate Advocates (Ryan Booz and Grant Fritchey) have written a book on PostgreSQL titled "Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional". So Louis sat down when them and asked them about the book, the process of creating it, and much more.

Monitor Amazon Kinesis Firehose in Hosted Graphite

We’ve supported syncing your metrics from Kinesis Streams, Amazon’s streaming data platform, for several years. Kinesis Streams helps you gather and process streaming data which can then be monitored in your Hosted Graphite account. Recently, we’ve added support for Firehose, a fully managed and scalable service that allows users to stream data to destinations like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, or Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES).

1st Live AMA with GitLens Creator Eric Amodio | Feb 13, 1pm EST

What questions would you ask the creator of GitLens? Whether you’re a power user or new to GitLens and have basic questions, we’d love to hear from you. Join us for a live AMA with Eric Amodio, the creator of GitLens on February 13th at 1 PM EST. GitLens has evolved significantly since it began as a simple blame and annotations extension for VS Code. Now, we invite you to ask questions, gain insights, and hear Eric’s perspective on any topics you're curious about.

Migrating from Generic to Custom Attestations: A zero-trust approach to compliance

The kosli attest generic CLI command can attest anything, but unlike a “typed” attestation (such as kosli attest snyk), it does not calculate a true/false compliance value for you. Customers have reported that while a generic “escape hatch” is useful, it nevertheless has some drawbacks: Based on this feedback we’ve implemented a new attest command called kosli attest custom.

The Risks of Not Replacing Skype for Business Before its End of Life

If your organization uses Skype for Business for collaboration, it’s time to start thinking about your next communication platform. On Oct. 15, 2025, Microsoft will stop supporting Skype for Business. As a result, the platform’s performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and other bugs will no longer be fixed. There’s still time to move to a new platform before Skype for Business is no longer supported.

Windows VPS vs. Linux VPS: which one should you choose?

When it comes to renting a virtual private server (VPS), one of the first decisions you'll face is choosing between Windows VPS and Linux VPS. Both operating systems have their pros and cons, and the right choice depends on your specific needs. So, let's consider a scenario: You've decided to rent a virtual server but are unsure which operating system is better. It's essential to take into account the technical characteristics, cost, and ease of use of each system. Let's delve into the intricacies of the choice.