Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

October 2022

Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

Welcome back to GKE Essentials! In this episode, Kaslin Fields explores a key element of your GKE observability: Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus. Watch to see how Google Cloud's fully managed multi-cloud solution for Prometheus lets you globally monitor and alert on your workloads without having to manually manage and operate Prometheus at scale.

Cloud Logging pricing for Cloud Admins: How to approach it & save cost

Flexera’s State of the Cloud Report 2022 pointed out that significant cloud spending is wasted, a major issue that is getting more critical as cloud costs continue to rise. In the current macroeconomic conditions, companies focus on identifying ways to reduce spending. To effectively do that, we need to understand the pricing model. We can then work towards the challenges of cost monitoring, optimization, and forecasting.

Introducing Software Delivery Shield for end-to-end software supply chain security

Organizations and their software delivery pipelines are continually exposed to growing cyberattack vectors. Coupled with the massive adoption of open source software, which now helps power nearly all of our public infrastructure and is highly prevalent in most proprietary software, businesses around the world are more vulnerable than ever. Today’s organizations need to be more vigilant in protecting their software development infrastructure and processes.

Cloud Monitoring further embraces open source by adding PromQL

As Kubernetes monitoring continues to standardize on Prometheus as a form factor, more and more developers are becoming familiar with Prometheus’ built-in query language, PromQL. Besides being bundled with Prometheus, PromQL is popular for being a simple yet expressive language for querying time series data. It’s been fully adopted by the community, with lots of great query repositories, sample playbooks, and trainings for PromQL available online.