Cloud migration is more than just a buzzword. According to several reports released at the beginning of 2019, almost 70% of enterprise organizations are moving their applications and infrastructure from local, self-managed hardware to one of the big cloud providers. Multiple case studies have been written about companies like Spotify, Dropbox, Gitlab, and Waze, all of which have replaced their core business infrastructures with cloud data centers.

Prometheus and Grafana are two monitoring tools that, when combined, provide all of the information DevOps and Dev teams need to build and maintain applications. Prometheus collects many types of metrics from almost every variety of service written in any development language, and Grafana effectively queries, visualizes, and processes these metrics.

We recently wrote a blog with Julien Dubois, a Java Developer Advocate from Microsoft, on how to simplify logging for Spring Boot applications. This is a small preview. Spring Boot is an open source Java framework that makes it easier for developers to create microservices. Azure just announced Azure Spring Cloud, which will help Java engineers on Azure developer Java microservices faster. This blog explores how to simplify logging for Spring Boot applications.

At AWS re:Invent recently, we excitedly announced Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring – our new Grafana-based monitoring product! This product is the third pillar of our cloud observability platform, together with Logz.io Log Management and Logz.io Cloud SIEM.

“Service mesh” is an umbrella term for products that seek to solve the problems that microservices’ architectures create. These challenges include security, network traffic control, and application telemetry. The resolution of these challenges can be achieved by decoupling your application at layer five of the network stack, which is one definition of what service meshes do.

Single-node deployments of Kubernetes are more common than what one would expect. In some scenarios, single-node clusters make much more sense. For development purposes or testing, there’s no need to deploy a full-blown production-grade cluster. Single-node deployments are also handy for appliances and IoT applications since they have a much smaller footprint. Enter MicroK8s, a tool by Canonical that enables you to easily deploy a lightweight single-node cluster in your local environment.

This was a particularly interesting and challenging year for security, cloud computing, and DevOps. It has been exciting to watch organizations and individuals transition to the public cloud and adopt DevOps culture and processes. Many are now reaping the benefits of these technological shifts.

Yesterday, we announced the beta release of Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring — our Grafana-based monitoring solution, and the planned release of a Jaeger-based tracing solution. These additions to our platform complement our ELK-based Log Management product, together constituting what is the world’s only open source-based observability platform for monitoring, troubleshooting and securing distributed cloud workloads.