Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

September 2022

How to Identify Unused, Wasted and Orphaned Azure Resources and Reduce Azure Cost?

Every article you find about reducing Azure cost will invariably mention ensuring any unused (especially PAYG) resources are identified and shut down/deleted. However very few actually will tell you “HOW” to do this. eG Enterprise has added new functionality to enable you to identify unused, wasted and orphaned Azure resources and services without the need to resort to hacking up KQL queries or PowerShell scripts.

How to Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Technology

One question many administrators are asking is: How can I effectively and efficiently monitor Azure Virtual Desktop technology? There are several options for monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop technology and this blog will cover some of the most popular ones. In this blog, we will focus on multi-session, native Azure virtual desktops.

Synthetic Monitoring of Microsoft AVD Service Levels

We recently announced a FREE ready-to-go standalone SaaS logon simulator tool for Microsoft AVD, available here. This joins our fully featured logon simulator available for use on-premises, as SaaS or in the cloud within our synthetic monitoring suite. A logon simulator, whilst a useful tool, should be used in conjunction with other synthetic and real user monitoring tools for a truly proactive IT strategy designed to prevent real users encountering issues and raising support tickets.

How to Monitor IIS Performance

Are you looking to monitor the performance of your IIS web server? This guide will break down everything you need to know about monitoring and troubleshooting Microsoft’s popular web server. IIS performance monitoring helps you to proactively monitor the health of your IIS web server by collecting logs, traces, and metrics of the application performance and the underlying IT infrastructure.

What is DevOps? A Comprehensive Guide

The term DevOps is a combination of the words “development” and “operations.” In practice, DevOps is a collaborative approach to the work that is performed by an enterprise’s IT operations staff and their application developers. Collaboration and communication between these two teams, who might otherwise function separately, are meant to increase the speed and quality of product or application releases.

IT Monitoring for Government

Today’s blog comes from Kevin Howell, CEO of UK partner – Howell Technology Group (HTG) about their work supplying secure cloud technologies and remote working solutions to government and regulated customers. HTG are a trusted industry leader in the UK, who offer virtual desktops, managed services and efficient modern workplace solutions. Their solutions are also available with the UK Government’s Digital Market place under the G-Cloud Framework.

Top 15 Key Categories of Monitoring Metrics in Kubernetes and OpenShift Environments

Over the last couple of years, Kubernetes (often called K8s) has become the most popular and well-known container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. Scheduling containers at scale in a cloud-native ecosystem is central to the technology. Kubernetes itself is an open-source project, and as such presents challenges for many enterprises especially in regulated industries with strong security requirements and formal SLA commitments.