Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

September 2023

How to configure API Management to use Business Activity Monitoring?

Want to troubleshoot your Azure integration solutions faster and easier? In this video, we'll show you how to configure API Management to use Business Activity Monitoring from Serverless360. This will give you and your team of business and IT support users enhanced visibility into how your APIs are being used, and provide you with features like advanced monitoring, message reprocessing, and the ability to trace business transactions across your entire architecture.

How to optimize cost of Logic Apps Consumption?

Our latest video on Logic App consumption and cost optimization! Are you looking to develop interfaces at minimal expense but worried about the potential money drain from unnecessary polling and checks? In this video, we've got you covered! See how Serverless360's powerful Cost Analyzer can help you trim down expenses, especially in non-production environments. Say goodbye to wasted funds and hello to smarter Logic App management.

How do log analytics and Business Activity Monitoring differ for business users?

It is considerably difficult for Business users & support operators to understand a business architecture built using App Insights and Log Analytics, the amount of Azure knowledge is insufficient to monitor the business process. In this video, we will focus on a real-world scenario where you might be using Logic Apps and compare the differences between using Log Analytics diagnostics data and Serverless360 BAM.

This Month in Datadog: Integrations for AI/LLM Tech Stacks, Serverless Monitoring Releases, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. This month, we put the Spotlight on a trio of serverless monitoring releases..

Serverless Microservices on Azure

Serverless Microservices combines both Serverless and Micro-Service Architectures, which gives the advantage of scalable Loosely coupled services without managing physical servers. In this episode of "Azure on Air" podcast, learn how serverless microservices in Azure offer reduced complexity, cost savings, and faster innovation. Discover Azure's core serverless service, Azure Functions, and other managed services that enable full-fledged serverless applications.

Microsoft Fabric Explained: All you need to know

What is Microsoft Fabric? Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end analytics solution with full-service capabilities including data movement, data lakes, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence—all backed by a shared platform providing robust data security, governance, and compliance.

The importance of Azure cost to DevOps

Cloud computing’s ascent has redefined modern business operations. Azure, among other platforms, offers unparalleled scalability, speed, and resilience. However, this vast potential brings about the challenge of cost management. Although DevOps teams traditionally focus more on deployment and uptime, addressing Azure costs is essential. Here’s why.

Auto-Instrumenting OpenTelemetry for Kafka

Apache Kafka, born at LinkedIn in 2010, has revolutionized real-time data streaming and has become a staple in many enterprise architectures. As it facilitates seamless processing of vast data volumes in distributed ecosystems, the importance of visibility into its operations has risen substantially. In this blog, we’re setting our sights on the step-by-step deployment of a containerized Kafka cluster, accompanied by a Python application to validate its functionality. The cherry on top?

Run Azure Functions locally in Visual Studio 2022

Azure Functions offers a serverless solution that streamlines the development process, minimizes infrastructure overhead, and results in cost savings. The beauty of this approach is that you no longer need to grapple with server deployment and maintenance; the cloud infrastructure automatically furnishes the essential resources to support your applications.

Azure Event Grid dead letter monitoring

Microsoft Azure provides a completely managed event routing service called Azure Event Grid. It allows you to respond to events received from various Azure services and external applications and forward them to different Azure services and endpoints. Azure Event Grid provides a unified way to manage events in Azure with event-driven programming. With Event Grids, you can create event-driven applications in a serverless environment, cutting down costs and performance lags.

Monitor multiple Azure subscriptions in a single dashboard

Multiple Azure subscriptions are typically managed by a Tenant in an enterprise. Each subscription is tailored to a specific product, project, module, or environment. This article addresses the utilization of Serverless360 for the monitoring and managing these diverse Azure subscriptions.

Azure SQL Database monitoring

Azure Database is a comprehensive cloud-based service Microsoft offers as part of its Azure cloud computing platform. It provides various database solutions to cater to different application needs, offering scalability, reliability, and performance. Here’s a quick look at Azure Database: Database Types: Azure Database supports various databases, including SQL databases, NoSQL databases, and data warehousing solutions.

Is Bun the Next Big Thing for AWS Lambda? A Thorough Investigation

It’s been only a few days since the Bun 1.0 announcement and it’s taken social media by storm! And rightly so. Bun promises better performance, and Node.js compatibility and comes with batteries included. It comes with a transpiler, bundler, package manager and testing library. You no longer have to install 15 packages before writing a single code line. It creates a standardised set of tools and addresses the fractured nature of the Node.js ecosystem.

Scaling AWS Lambda and Postgres to thousands of simultaneous uptime checks

When you're building a serverless web app, it can be pretty easy to forget about the database. You build a backend, send some data to a frontend, write some tests, and it'll scale to infinity with no effort, right? Not quite. Especially not with a tiny Postgres server. As the number of users of your frontend increases, your app will open more and more database connections until the database is unable to accept any more. That's just the frontend - it gets worse on the backend.

How to resubmit & delete messages in Azure Service Bus dead letter queue?

Azure Service Bus is a cloud messaging service in Microsoft Azure that enables independent applications or services to communicate and exchange data through messages stored in queues or topics. This facilitates scalable and reliable communication in distributed systems. Service Bus contains two types of messaging entities queues, and topics. Queue: Queues transmit the messages in FIFO (First In, First Out) message delivery. Each message in a Queue can be received by only one active receiver.

Azure Monitoring Tool: Here's What's New in Serverless360 for August 2023

Serverless360's - latest updates bring you a streamlined approach to managing your business application intricacies. In this video, see how Serverless360 - an advanced Azure Monitoring Tool can streamline your business operations, making tasks like API monitoring and Power Automate flow management more efficient. But that's not all. The updates include fine-tuned enhancements like monthly calendar views and cost optimization recommendations that can help save your organization's valuable time and resources.

7 Strategies for Azure Cost Optimization

Struggling with Azure Cost Optimization? Tune into this insightful podcast with Twan Koot, a seasoned Microsoft Azure Cloud architect at Ordina, as he discusses strategies to help you achieve optimal Azure savings. Learn how to reduce Azure expenses and scale efficiently, along with the essential techniques for maximum cloud savings.

Auto Filter Messages into Subscriptions in Azure Service Bus Topic

Topic is a logical channel to which publishers send messages. Topics can be employed when several subscribers wish to subscribe to a specific set of messages. Messages sent to a topic are then forwarded to its associated Subscriptions.

A detailed guide on Azure architecture diagram

Azure architecture diagrams are visual representations that illustrate the structure, components, and relationships of a solution or application deployed on Microsoft Azure. These diagrams provide a clear and concise overview of the various Azure resources and services used in a specific architecture. They are helpful for design discussions, documentation, and communication among team members and stakeholders.

How to monitor power automate flows involving Azure services?

It can be challenging when you have to monitor and manage an integration solution from two different platforms like Azure service and Power Automate Flows. Michael Stephenson showcases Serverless360’s newest feature from Business Application on managing Power Automate and monitoring solutions across the Azure services.

Azure SQL database cost optimization to maximize savings

Azure SQL is a versatile and powerful database service, and it is an increasingly popular choice for storing and managing application data due to its scalability, high availability, security, and simplicity of integration. A common demand for cloud workloads is cost optimization. To maximize cloud savings, this article discusses Azure SQL Database Cost Optimization.

Top 8 things you should know about deploying RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is a household name in the world of application development and system architecture. Acting as a middleman for communication, it seamlessly bridges the gap between various application components. If you’ve been contemplating the integration of RabbitMQ into your infrastructure or simply want to better understand its functionalities, this blog post is for you. Here are the top 8 things to know.

When to scale tasks on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Since its inception, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) has emerged as a strong choice for developers aiming to efficiently deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on AWS cloud. By abstracting the complexities associated with container orchestration, ECS allows teams to focus on application development, while handling the underlying infrastructure, load balancing, and service discovery requirements.