With Cloud SQL for SQL Server, you can bring your existing SQL Server on-premises workloads to Google Cloud. Cloud SQL takes care of infrastructure, maintenance, and patching so you can focus on your application and users. A great way to take better care of your application is by monitoring the SQL Server error log for issues that may be affecting your users such as deadlocks, job failures, and changes in database health.
Prometheus is considered the de facto standard for Kubernetes application metrics, but running it yourself can strain engineering time and infrastructure resources when your usage grows. In March, we announced the general availability of Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus to help you offload that burden, and today, we’re excited to announce a new low-cost, high-usage pricing tier designed for customers who are moving large volumes of Kubernetes metrics over to the service.
Not all status updates are published because of an incident or scheduled maintenance event. Sometimes, IT teams simply want to cast an informational status update without affecting the overall status.
Vulnerabilities within an IT environment pose a big security risk and are a threat to digital data within an organization. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by others, or a lack of necessary precautions can result in damaged or lost organizational data. Therefore, it is essential to have a vulnerability management process in place for these reasons.
For those who missed the live conversation, we had a great chat with Nana Janashia around taking the next click in with Kubernetes. As one of the great equalizers between the development and operations teams, Kubernetes has a duality of generics and opinions to power your workloads. This duality can be a complex one to navigate not only dealing with a new paradigm of idempotency and ephemerality but also dealing with a vast amount of choice and seemingly granular.
