Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The digital landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, and businesses are constantly seeking agile, high-performance connectivity solutions to stay ahead. Recognising this, data centres are shifting beyond their traditional role of offering just space and power. Today, they must deliver real-time access to clouds, other data centres, and applications.

Software teams rely on CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and deploy code quickly. But when a build fails, it can disrupt the entire workflow. Digging through logs, chasing down errors, and switching between dashboards takes time you don’t want to waste. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use your AI coding assistant — powered by structured data from your CI system — to diagnose and fix build failures faster.

Using server-side telemetry to understand what’s going on inside your system is incredibly valuable, but what about the responsiveness the user actually sees? In this post, I’ll cover what synthetic monitoring is and show an example of how you can create a simple monitor using OpenTelemetry, .NET, and an Azure function. If you only want to see how it’s built, skip ahead to building a synthetic monitor.

Effectively managing events and alerts is essential for preventing or quickly resolving incidents, whether it’s a sudden service outage or an ongoing cyberattack. The three terms — events, alerts, incidents — are different but they are closely related. Read on to learn more. Ensuring the reliability, performance, and efficiency of IT systems is both the heart of operational excellence and an important strategic objective for digital organizations.

Fragmented tools, teams, and processes are more than an inconvenience in IT Operations. They are major bottlenecks that hinder collaboration, slow down incident resolution, and jeopardize customer experiences. In a recent webinar, Adam Blau, VP of Product Marketing at BigPanda, and Britton Starr, a Technical Account Manager, shared their insights into the operational chaos plaguing modern enterprises.

If you are fine using a conventional cloud cost management tool, Apptio’s Cloudability can be a helpful tool. It promises to enable DevOps, IT, and finance to optimize cloud resources for quality, speed, and cost. A large business with a high cloud spend, a team of 5-10 engineers, and a budget for expert guidance is an ideal match for Cloudability.