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IT Cost Optimization: Importance and Best practices

Managing IT costs has become the top priority for many organizations in the modern, fast-paced, and fiercely competitive world. The dependence of organizations on IT infrastructure has increased, making it more challenging than ever to control IT costs. IT cost optimization is critical for businesses to remain competitive and agile in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape.

Retain logs longer without breaking the bank: Introducing Grafana Cloud Logs Export

Late last year we announced an early access program for Grafana Cloud Logs Export, a feature that allows users to easily export logs from Grafana Cloud to their own cloud-based object storage for long-term archival purposes. We are pleased to announce that the feature is now in public preview for all Grafana Cloud users, including those on the Free tier!

Grafana Agent v0.34 release: Extended Kubernetes monitoring, support for HashiCorp Vault, and more

Grafana Agent v0.34 is now available! The v0.34 release includes features for remote secrets, better Kubernetes integration, and above all, more community involvement. The Grafana Agent team is also excited to continue driving growth around Grafana Agent Flow, a configuration mode that makes Grafana Agent easier and more powerful to run.

Observability in Nutanix AHV environments and Hyper Converged Infrastructures (HCI)

Today, I’ll cover the benefits of monitoring and observability in Nutanix AHV environments and Hyper Converged Infrastructures (HCI) and how observability can help IT teams run cost-efficient, performant Nutanix deployments. Modern enterprises need infrastructures designed for resilience, cost-effectiveness, and application performance. Organizations are adopting hybrid multi-cloud strategies and looking to simplify and optimize on-premises and data center operations.

May 2023: Monitor Your Domain Expiration Feature

Remember when we promised you some exciting news in the UptimeRobot Discord server blog? The day has finally arrived! We’re happy to introduce our latest feature – domain expiration monitoring! Expired domains can make your website totally inaccessible and cause damage to your brand and business. Fixing expired domains can take days, and at the worst case you could lose the domain name entirely because someone may register it quicker.

Alert Tuning Recommendations: Reinventing Anomaly Alerts with Anodot

In the complex and dynamic realm of data analytics, real-time anomalies serve as insights to issues a business faces. A pervasive and enduring conundrum persists: accurately discerning between anomalies of significant importance and those of lesser consequence. This distinction is a nontrivial task as not all anomalies bear the same weight.

Technical deep-dive into a real-time kernel

Canonical announced the general availability of Ubuntu’s real-time kernel earlier this year. Since then, our community raised several questions regarding the workings of the kernel and tuning guidelines. We aim to provide answers in this and an upcoming follow-up post. Depending on your background knowledge, you may wish to start with the basics of preemption and a real-time system. In that case, this introductory webinar or our blog series on what is real-time Linux, is for you.

Multi-Cloud Made Simple: Announcing Kentik Observability Enhancements for AWS and Google Cloud

Limited visibility into network performance across multi-clouds frustrates even the best teams. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce enhanced AWS and GCP support for Kentik Cloud, enabling network, cloud, and infrastructure teams to rapidly troubleshoot and understand multi-cloud traffic.

Page Speed Monitoring Will Elevate Your Website's Performance

In the world of constant connectivity and digital realm, velocity is vital. Imagine a user reaching your website only to be met with a stark, blank page. Their anticipation hangs in the balance as they await any sign of engagement. Such an encounter does little to endorse the readiness or accessibility of your business. In today’s hyper-connected world, every single millisecond carries profound significance.