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5 key OCI services you must monitor for optimal cloud performance

Effectively monitoring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services is crucial for maintaining smooth operations, cost efficiency, and robust security. OCI offers a suite of services, each vital to powering applications and workloads. Understanding what to monitor and why is key to preventing downtime, managing costs, and optimizing performance.

Understanding the Differences Between Flow Logs on AWS and Azure

AWS VPC flow Logs and Azure NSG flow Logs offer network traffic visibility with different scopes and formats, but both are essential for multi-cloud network management and security. Unified network observability solutions analyze both in one place to provide comprehensive insights across clouds.

Optimize and troubleshoot cloud storage at scale with Storage Monitoring

Organizations today rely on cloud object storage to power diverse workloads, from data analytics and machine learning pipelines to content delivery platforms. But as data volumes explode and storage patterns become more complex, teams often struggle to understand and proactively optimize their storage utilization. When issues arise—such as unexpected costs or performance bottlenecks—these teams frequently lack the visibility needed to quickly identify and resolve root causes.

5 Cybersecurity Tips for Managing Blockchain in Cloud Environments

Blockchain is reshaping industries by offering transparent and secure transaction processes. When paired with cloud environments, it unlocks even greater scalability. But this combination introduces risks. Without strong cybersecurity practices, sensitive data becomes vulnerable. Attacks on blockchain-based systems are rising, targeting loopholes in poorly managed setups. How can you protect your blockchain infrastructure in the cloud? Here are a few lynchpin strategies to implement for this purpose.

Split your projects in Azure DevOps

This enhancement is part of Raygun’s 12 Days of Christmas 2024. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share daily updates on bug fixes and feature improvements inspired by feedback from you, our customers. These are the small but impactful changes you’ve asked for, designed to make Raygun faster and easier to use. Check back tomorrow for the next update and see how we’re leveling up your experience one day at a time! Our special thanks to David from Atlanta who suggested this great idea!

Mastering cloud tag management: A key to smarter cloud cost management

Cloud tagging The cloud has revolutionized the way businesses operate, providing unparalleled scalability and flexibility. However, effective cloud cost management can be challenging, with a significant part of this due to the way cloud resources are tagged. In this blog, we’ll explore how cloud tag management plays a crucial role in cost management and reveal how tools like ManageEngine CloudSpend simplify budgeting and forecasting for organizations.

AWS Lambda Demystified: How It Works, Pros And Cons, And Pricing

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers over 200 services. But, AWS Lambda continues to stand out for several reasons. This AWS Lambda tutorial will help explain Lambda in simple terms so you can decide if the service suits your computing needs. We’ll cover AWS Lambda, how it works, how it compares to EC2, use cases, benefits, limitations, and more. Additionally, we’ll cover how you can monitor and manage your Lambda costs without the burden of cost management.

Gain comprehensive visibility into your ECS applications with the ECS Explorer

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a container orchestration service that enables you to efficiently deploy new applications or modernize existing ones by migrating them to a containerized environment. Building on ECS gives you the flexibility, scalability, and security that containers offer, but also presents challenges in monitoring and troubleshooting your applications and infrastructure.

Simplify operations across hybrid cloud with OpsRamp

According to IDC, 80% of organizations are running hybrid and multicloud environments, bringing new complexities and risks for IT leaders*. When it comes to operations, IT teams find it challenging to maintain visibility across cloud and on-prem systems, optimize more and more tools, and automate operations—all while ensuring cost efficiency and staying agile. Traditional approaches complicate things further, often leading to silos and inefficient resource use.