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We are thrilled to announce that we have been recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer' : Application Performance Monitoring and Observability.

Data is the lifeline of modern businesses, and losing it can have serious consequences. That’s why backup and recovery strategies are crucial for any organization. Azure Storage is one of the most reliable and secure cloud storage solutions available, making it an excellent option for storing backups. In this article, we will explore the benefits and challenges of using Azure Storage as a backup location and provide you with a step-by-step guide to set up and manage your backups.

I lead the Grafana Loki project here at Grafana Labs, and I’ve always loved building things professionally and in my personal life, whether we’re talking about metalworking or coding — or, more recently, 3D printing. A couple years ago, I purchased my first 3D printer, a Prusa i3 MK3S+. I use it periodically to build functional items I use around my house in Upstate New York. For example, I recently decided to build a solar radiation shield for my outdoor weather station.

Are you wondering whether to include IT support in your business? Then this is the article you need. Especially for smaller organizations, when costs increase, it can be challenging to justify a dedicated team. But if you are not entirely convinced about outsourcing your IT department, and want to give in-house another thought, then keep reading. We're about to explore the fundamental concepts of effective IT support, its scope, benefits, and key outcomes.

Budgets are a touchy subject for anyone, and there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. However, the work ITOps does is integral to the success of your organization, so being confident in building and defending your budget is crucial to getting the resources you need. So what does success look like when it comes to ITOps budgets? In our recent podcast episode from our series, That’s great IT, I sat down with global IT leader Nigel Peacock to discuss the best ways to justify your ITOps budget.

Users have been generating increasing amounts of data in the past few years, partly due to rapid digitalization since the pandemic. As a result, increasing numbers of analytics applications are capitalizing on these data assets. However, building scalable systems is no trivial task and incidents are inevitable. Complex systems generate data in the form of logs, traces, metrics, and more, which organizations often find themselves sprinting through. Such logs are a powerhouse of valuable information.

Monitoring is not a goal, but a path. Depending on the maturity of your project, it can be labeled in one of these six steps of the cloud monitoring journey. You will find best practices for all of them and examine what companies get from each one. From classic virtual machines to large Kubernetes clusters or even serverless architectures, companies have adopted the cloud as a mainstream way to provide their online services.

Grafana has been a staple visualization tool used alongside InfluxDB since its inception. With the release of InfluxDB Cloud powered by IOx, there is now a new way to integrate InfluxDB and Grafana: Flight SQL. Two of our engineers, Brett and Helen, have been working hard to create a new Grafana plugin called Flight SQL. This open-source plugin allows users to perform SQL queries directly against InfluxDB IOx and other storage engines compatible with Apache DataFusion.

In today’s economic climate, IT and security budget owners are always looking for ways to increase efficiency while controlling costs. With tighter budgets and increasing workloads, organizations have to find ways of stretching their limited resources while making sure investments are paying off.

The pandemic shifted us all online, whether we wanted to or not. It forced the public sector to adapt more than most industries, requiring citizens to interact digitally with governments to receive the health and financial support available to them. Digital technology promises to elevate government customer experience (CX) by scaling services, cutting wait times, and reducing costs.