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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is famous for operating the world’s largest particle accelerator, but did you know that CERN is also at the heart of the world’s largest computing grid? And with such unprecedented computing demands comes some serious observability needs.

Every year brings its own unique challenges and opportunities, and we’ve consistently embraced both resilience and innovation. Through our comprehensive platform, we’ve redefined how businesses approach root cause analysis, anomaly detection, automation, solution recommendations, and log monitoring, while also achieving significant improvements in Mean Time to Investigate (MTTI) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).

It’s been an exciting journey since we launched VictoriaMetrics Cloud, empowering many with a managed, simple, reliable, and efficient monitoring solution to reduce monitoring costs by up to 5x. Designed to eliminate the overhead of running infrastructure, VictoriaMetrics Cloud has proven to be a game-changer, offering the scalability and power of the popular VictoriaMetrics open-source time-series database but, this time, fully managed.

At Qovery, we allow our users to spin up Kubernetes clusters on AWS, GCP, and Scaleway in 5 minutes. Recently, we began offering Karpenter as a node auto-scaler option when creating an EKS cluster - a feature that can be enabled with just one click.

According to Akamai, 83% of web traffic is through APIs. Microservices, servers, and clients constantly communicate to exchange information. Even the Google search you made to reach this article involved your browser client calling Google APIs. Given APIs govern the internet, businesses rely on them heavily. API health is directly proportional to business prosperity. This article covers everything about API monitoring, so your API infrastructure’s health is always in check .

Are you looking for a Dynatrace alternative? Then you have come to the right place. In this article, we will go through the top 9 Dynatrace alternatives. First, let's briefly discuss what Dynatrace offers and why you might consider other solutions.

FinOps is an evolving concept increasingly practiced in cloud computing organizations to manage and optimize their infrastructure cost. It requires team collaboration among Finance, Engineering and IT Operations to gain a deep understanding of the expenditure, take financial accountability, and make informed decisions to maximize the business performance.

Azure Service Bus is a cloud messaging service that transfers information between services running in both the cloud and on-premises. So, it becomes essential to ensure the performance and availability of Service Bus as it might be used in applications and integrations for transferring business-critical messages. To help you with that, we have listed and compared the top Azure Service Bus monitoring tools with their features.

Are you looking for Grafana alternatives? Then you have come to the right place. Grafana started as a data visualization tool. It slowly evolved into a tool that can take data from multiple data sources for visualization. For observability, Grafana offers the LGTM stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). You need to configure and maintain multiple configurations for a full-stack observability setup.

Nowadays, almost half of traditional small businesses (and nearly 2/3rds of small tech companies in particular) employ cloud infrastructure or hosting services, and for good reasons. As a reliable uptime monitoring service, we at Hyperping fully understand the importance of monitoring your assets to keep track of functionality and performance. Monitoring every aspect of your cloud infrastructure requires a lot of different tools. And the space is crowded!