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Administrators and IT management are increasingly leveraging simple quantifiable KPI indicators such as “Performance Ratings” to gain rapid overviews and track key outcomes. Modern IT architectures are designed and built to scale and be resilient. Systems are now usually built to handle failover and auto-scale up and down to handle varying demand and workloads with very different properties and needs.

Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration service provided by Microsoft Azure that enables users to create, schedule, and orchestrate data workflows to move and transform data from various sources to various destinations.

The threat and security landscape is becoming increasingly cluttered. As incidents increase, so do alerts and notifications, leading to too many alerts and too few hours to address them. Many businesses work remote and with the ever-present smartphones, we are always on the go. Yet it is essential that security teams receive and prioritize meaningful threats, but that task is easier said than done.

Event management is a critical process within IT service management, offering a structured method to detect, assess, and respond to events that could disrupt business services. Essentially, event management is a systematic approach to tracking all detectable occurrences within IT infrastructure, applications, systems, and services.

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Preparation prior to a breach is critical to reducing recovery time and costs.” (RSAConference) For 83% of companies, a cyber incident is just a matter of time (IBM). And when it does happen, it will cost the organization millions, coming in at a global average of $4.35 million per breach. The damage isn’t only financial, nor solely related to customer loyalty and brand equity.

Alerting is one of the main reasons for having a monitoring system. It is always better to be notified about an issue before an unhappy user or customer gets to you. For this, engineers build systems that would check for certain conditions all the time, day and night. And when the system detects an anomaly - it raises an alert. Monitoring could break, so engineers make it reliable. Monitoring could get overwhelmed, so engineers make it scalable. But what if monitoring was just poorly instructed?

Azure Logic Apps is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft Azure that allows users to create and run automated workflows. A trigger is the first step of a workflow that specifies the condition for running further steps in that workflow. Azure Logic Apps creates a workflow run each time the trigger fires successfully. The details of each run, including the status, inputs, and outputs of each step of the workflow instance, can be accessed in the run history section of the Logic App.