Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The traditional approach to operations management is quickly growing extinct in organizations, given the replacement of siloed architectures by integrated systems that can work with the multi-cloud, microservices, Kubernetes and distributed architectures of the modern enterprise. While modernization of IT operations was already in full swing, the pandemic tipped it over. Through the pandemic, IT operations teams were on their toes and continue to be as organizations adopt hybrid work approaches.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is an extremely scalable and high-performing container orchestration solution that allows for the effortless execution, termination, and administration of Docker containers within a cluster. As more organizations embrace containerization, optimizing the costs of running containerized applications is essential, especially when using managed services like Amazon ECS.

Graphite is used by many organizations to track and visualize various metrics that their applications or servers send out. But what happens if there are too many of these metrics or the company doesn't want to use its human resources to monitor the behaviour of metrics constantly? In this article, we will use Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to learn about Graphite's ability to notify users about the abnormal behaviour of services or infrastructure in a timely manner.

Cyberattack prevention involves proactive steps organizations take to protect their digital assets, networks, and systems from potential cyber threats. Preventive measures, such as a combination of best practices, policies, and technologies, are employed to identify and mitigate security breaches before they can cause significant damage.

As your Kubernetes infrastructure — and your business — grows, so too does the headache of managing your stack. And since controlling costs is crucial for your organization’s well-being, you need visibility into your complex system to ensure you’re spending your money wisely. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Kubernetes cost monitoring as a new feature in Grafana Cloud.

We’re excited to introduce a dedicated Grafana Cloud integration for Apache CouchDB, a NoSQL document database that stores data in a JSON-based document format. Known for its scalability, availability, and easy replication of data across multiple servers, Apache CouchDB comes with a whole host of features designed to make it easy to run resilient distributed systems, with built-in bi-direcitonal replication allowing for simple replication across multiple servers and data centers.

As we are now 6 months into the year, I thought this would be a great time to sit and reflect on everything that has happened at Civo so far (and some of the plans we have in the pipeline). If you’re interested in taking a look at our previous roadmaps.

CloudZero’s research has determined that as many as 60% of SaaS business leaders feel their cloud spend is higher than it should be. Considering cloud spend is a dominant portion of a SaaS company’s operating costs, unexpectedly high cloud bills can be a significant problem. While many SaaS leaders use discount plans to stem the bleeding, we believe the better solution lies with giving your engineers the tools to track and optimize costs as they build.