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Dashboard Fridays: Sample Azure Application Insights Dashboard

This SquaredUp dashboard uses the Azure plugin to surface key performance metrics from Application Insights. Common user experience metrics are all provided out of the box, and we can query, summarize, and analyse the raw logs and traces. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.

4 Common Obstacles To Managing Microsoft Azure Costs (And How To Overcome Them)

Microsoft Azure was a relative latecomer to the public cloud market: AWS preempted everyone in 2006, and Google GCP came next, in 2008. By the time Azure launched in 2010, the public cloud market had already grown to more than $24 billion. Despite being third to the party, Azure had a key advantage: The Microsoft Office Suite was (and is) a go-to choice for corporate collaboration.

Optimizing the AWS CloudWatch Log Process

Amazon’s native monitoring and management service AWS CloudWatch is great for basic monitoring and alerts. However, on its own, it may not be the best solution for analyzing log data at scale — especially if you need to analyze data outside of AWS. Many teams may find themselves restricted by retention issues and basic analytic features with Amazon CloudWatch logs for troubleshooting use cases.

Zero-Friction AWS Lambda Instrumentation with external extensions

If you’ve been in the software business for some time, you’ve probably noticed that creating software isn’t only about adding features. There are usually many different tasks involved. You have to test your system, fix bugs, and ensure it keeps working over its lifetime.

How to Add SD-WAN Devices to Hybrid Cloud Observability

SD-WAN network monitoring can help you better ensure SD-WAN performance and more easily troubleshoot slowdowns or outages. In this video, you’ll learn how to add new SD-WAN devices for monitoring so that you can get the insights you need for Meraki devices with Hybrid Cloud Observability.

A Guide to Stack Overflow's Path to the Cloud

Like many companies, Stack Overflow is trying to get out of the business of running our architecture in our own data centers; instead, we want to offload some of the more mundane parts of system administration to a cloud service offering like Azure. I’m going to cut to the chase for the purpose of this article and concede we’ve already decided on Azure for the majority of our infrastructure and, most importantly to me, our databases.

Maximizing Cost Efficiency with the JFrog Cloud DevOps Platform

As businesses strive to keep up with the speed of digital transformation, they’re turning to DevOps practices to help them automate the delivery of code changes. In a world where delivering secure quality software updates fast-drives business value, enter the JFrog Cloud DevOps Platform. The JFrog Platform unifies, accelerates, and secures your software delivery, from development to distribution.

Sysdig Monitor introduces native support for Microsoft Azure Monitor

Microsoft Azure Monitor allows customers to get critical details about their Azure cloud environments and services. The API for Azure Monitor can be a great way for teams to pull this information into their own storage systems for further analysis. However, it can be an overwhelming amount of data to process. Sysdig can help with this problem and eliminate time and effort. Here is how we do it …

Top Reasons Customers Are Moving to SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

I’m frequently asked about why customers select SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability. Given the wide variety of options available, I thought it would be helpful to put together a compilation of what customers have told us as their top reasons for making the switch.

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