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Top Azure App Insights Techniques You're Not Using for Querying Logs

The Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module's new feature allows seamless navigation directly to the Azure portal. This video provides an overview of how BAM enables the monitoring and querying of logs from Azure App Insights and Log Analytics. It also showcases a use case in the employee benefits scenario, where daily file processing data is visualized for business and support teams to track system activities.

Feature Spotlight - Service Dependencies

To know how disruptions to one service might affect other services in your digital environment, it’s important to have a record of how applications and technical services connect within your architecture. Service dependency maps in xMatters define and visualize relationships between your services, so you can instantly see whether a service is impacted by any active incidents, and how that incident impacts other services. Dependency maps can be expanded to show additional upstream and downstream services and help identify a potential root cause.

Hector - Construction Asset Management Software

Hector offers an affordable and tailored software solution to streamline your asset tracking and heavy equipment maintenance. With Hector, your expensive assets are identified, tracked, and secured for better logistical management on-site. Our inventory management software, tailored for the construction sector, will allow you to track the lifespan of equipment as well as inventory check-ins and check-outs. Easy to use, we are sure you will save time with us!

How Xero Scaled Engineering Excellence with Cortex

Mark Dunlop, Head of Engineering Experience at Xero, shares how their team transitioned from managing service ownership in spreadsheets to building an internal portal—only to outgrow it. By adopting Cortex, Xero gained a centralized source of truth for ownership, compliance, and engineering standards across their globally distributed teams. With features like scorecards and workflows, Cortex is helping Xero drive engineering excellence, improve standardization, and elevate conversations beyond engineers to GMs and executive leaders. Watch to learn how Cortex is shaping the future of engineering at Xero!