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Cloud cost management, also referred to as cloud cost optimization, is the process of managing and controlling a company’s spending on cloud services. This can be achieved through a variety of methods, such as usage monitoring, resource optimization, and cost forecasting. The first step in managing cloud costs is to understand how cloud resources are being used. This involves tracking the usage of each service and identifying any trends or patterns.

With January over, 2024 is in full swing. Read on below to find out more about the Metrics Alpha, Cron Monitoring GA, SDK improvements, and more.

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the reliability of services is paramount for businesses aiming to deliver seamless user experiences. However, as the complexity of companies' environments grows, ensuring your services, infrastructure and applications are reliable and resilient to failure is challenging. It’s naive to think all services and infrastructure are operating 100% as designed.

An Azure subscription is a fundamental concept in the billing and management structure of Microsoft Azure. It serves as an agreement with Microsoft to use Azure services, where the services used are either paid for or are part of a free offer.

The G2 Winter 2024 Reports have landed, and we proudly announce that Coralogix has been awarded 123 new badges across 13 categories! These G2 awards are a true testament to the trust we receive from our customers and our commitment to make observability accessible to all.

A new year is a natural time to reflect on past achievements — and consider future aspirations. When I think about the observability space, specifically, in 2023, OpenTelemetry felt omnipresent. It was a hot topic at every industry event, with at least one dedicated talk at ObservabilityCON, Monitorama, PromCon, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, both NA and EU. A notable highlight from KubeCon was OpenTelemetry going GA, marking a significant milestone in the project’s development.

We’re bringing AI to network observability. And adding new products to Kentik, including a modern NMS, to simplify troubleshooting complex networks.

With multiple technological innovations all converging at the same time, we are living in an exciting era for the automotive industry. From AI to 5G, and plenty in between, we can expect to see a host of groundbreaking trends emerge this year. As electric vehicles (EVs) completely disrupt the market and the OEMs’ business strategies, the customer focus is shifting away from traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, challenging the way that cars are being built and designed.

You may have a team chat where automatic alerts fall in great numbers daily. Although these alerts are meant to notify you of issues, they often go unnoticed as you scroll through dozens of them. When we talk about IT alerts, things are getting even more complicated because they include many technical details you must decipher. This is one of many simple examples of alert fatigue.

I am happy to announce that Checkly now supports parallel scheduling as a new way to schedule your checks. Parallel scheduling allows you to reduce mean time to detection, provide better insights when addressing outages, and give improved accuracy in performance trends, making it a powerful new feature for all Checkly users.