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Cloud purchasing strategy KPIs: RIs, SPs, Spot, CUDs

One of the key advantages of cloud services versus on premise deployments is the wide range of purchasing options and pricing models. While it’s an attractive advantage, it can be complicated for organizations to determine the best blend of service pricing models. The ability to define the organization’s blend of purchasing strategies and display the target versus actual performance is critical for optimizing cloud cost management efforts.

Intro to Grafana Incident

In this video, you’ll learn how Grafana Incident offers a complete incident management process out of the box in Grafana Cloud, so you can save time and focus on what’s important when things go wrong. Grafana Incident is available to all free and paid Grafana Cloud users. If you’re not already using Grafana Cloud — the easiest way to get started with observability — sign up now for a free 14-day trial of Grafana Cloud Pro, with unlimited metrics, logs, traces, and users, long-term retention, and premium team collaboration features.

Synthetics 8.4.0 - Elastic Observability

Elastic 8.4.0 was released in August. In this video we cover what's new in 8.4.0 Observability, and go through demos of the newest features in monitor management, data retention, and the public beta. Join Synthetics Tech Lead Andrew Cholakian, and Synthetics Engineer Justin Kambic for the latest in Elastic Synthetics.

Web Endpoint Monitoring

In today’s world, a significant fraction of a software business’s reputation depends on its web application and its speed. It all comes down to how fast your server responds to client requests (assuming your application is reliable and reasonably user-friendly). Therefore, you could argue that the server endpoint is the centerpoint of all the server-side action — the operations here primarily determine the performance of your application.

Zoom Phone Delivers Local Survivability with Ribbon SBCs

Migrating to a cloud-based phone system is compelling because it eliminates the costs and time associated with deploying and managing legacy phone system/PBX hardware and proprietary business phones. However, moving 100% of an organization’s communications infrastructure off-site can present new challenges. If the connection to the cloud is lost, a site could lose both external communications and intra-site communications.