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Anodot achieves "Visionary" Status in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Management Tool

Here’s how Anodot became a leader in the Visionary category with its game-changing vision in FinOps and cloud-saving insights. It wasn’t just recognition from the leading authority in the technology industry but the culmination of a journey fueled by our incredible team’s dedication to providing our customers with FinOps-centric innovation and AI proprietary data. This wasn’t just any victory but an acclaimed win forged by industry-led expert leaders at our company.

CloudWatch metrics exporter YACE is now a prometheus-community project

We’re thrilled to share that the open source Yet Another CloudWatch Exporter (YACE) is now a prometheus-community project! This move represents an exciting milestone in YACE’s journey and validates the project’s contribution to the Prometheus ecosystem. Yace was started in 2018 by Thomas Peitz, who has overseen the dramatic evolution of the CloudWatch metrics exporter ever since.

Schedule Background Job using Quartz.NET

You may have encountered a situation where you must do some backend job without user intervention. For example, in an IOT application, your application needs to receive frequently published data from devices or send scheduler values to devices. .NET provides background job libraries for such tasks. I will discuss one of the background libraries, Quartz.NET, with a coding example. I will break down Quartz for you with simple, practical examples.

Incident Management in 2024: Best Practices, Tools Guide & More

When systems go down, every minute counts. You need more than just quick fixes. You need a solid system to spot problems early, take action fast, and learn from each incident to keep your users happy. That's what incident management is. In this guide, we'll walk through everything you need to know about incident management, from basic concepts to advanced strategies used by top DevOps teams.

Synthetic Website Monitoring Best Practices

Synthetic website monitoring (also known as synthetic testing) involves simulating the actions that visitors perform on a website and the journeys they take, in order to evaluate performance and proactively spot any issues or problems. For example, synthetic testing can help answer critical questions like: However, not all synthetic testing solutions or strategies are equal.

Understanding Ubuntu Logs

Linux, Debian, and Ubuntu are the Kirk, Spock, and McCoy of modern application development. The Captain Kirk, Linux, is the open-source central code for directing and talking to hardware. Debian sits as the trio’s Spock, the original distro that can be seen as more complex to install and use. As a Debian child distro, Ubuntu is the McCoy, helping to heal the challenges that people have when trying to use Debian.

Rethinking Security: Why Organizations are Flocking to Microsoft Sentinel

We’ve been steadily building strong momentum with Microsoft over the past year, and the latest step forward is a significant one: Cribl solutions are now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. But why this focus on Microsoft Azure? The answer lies in what customers are prioritizing and discussing with us.

From refresh to results: the metrics that shaped Election Day 2024 coverage

Dubbed 'the most important election ever,' it was expected that online traffic would skyrocket across traditional broadcasters, online streaming platforms, and digital publishers on November 5, 2024. As the initial results rolled in, Internet traffic surged nationwide by up to 15%, both at national and state levels. Surprisingly, though, this surge in traffic didn’t happen where you might expect—not on TV.