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Product Explainer Video: Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring for Real-time Monitoring in the Cloud

Wherever you are in your cloud journey and whatever your environment looks like, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is a purpose-built metrics platform to address real-time cloud monitoring requirements at scale. Get real-time observability for data from any cloud, any vendor, and any service.

Google Cloud Asset Inventory 101

Cloud Asset Inventory is a metadata inventory service that allows you to view, monitor, and analyze all your Google Cloud and Anthos assets across projects and services. In this video, Sophia Yang - a Google Cloud Product Manager - will show you how Cloud Asset Inventory allows you greater visibility into your Google Cloud assets, receive real-time notifications on asset config changes, run analysis on inventory, getting insights from your deployment, and more! Watch to learn how you can use Cloud Asset Inventory to gain greater observability into your Google Cloud and Anthos assets!

Dashbird Explained: the why, what and how

Here’s everything you need to know to get started with Dashbird – the complete solution for End-to-End Infrastructure observability , Real-time Error Tracking, and Well-Architected Insights. When working with AWS, One cannot emphasize enough the architectural best practices for designing workloads. One of those best practices is to design the solution in such a way that the monitoring of infrastructure and troubleshooting of errors and problems is achieved effortlessly.

Troubleshoot GKE apps faster with monitoring data in Cloud Logging

When you’re troubleshooting an application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the more context that you have on the issue, the faster you can resolve it. For example, did the pod exceed it’s memory allocation? Was there a permissions error reserving the storage volume? Did a rogue regex in the app pin the CPU? All of these questions require developers and operators to build a lot of troubleshooting context.

Use log buckets for data governance, now supported in 23 regions

Logs are an essential part of troubleshooting applications and services. However, ensuring your developers, DevOps, ITOps, and SRE teams have access to the logs they need, while accounting for operational tasks such as scaling up, access control, updates, and keeping your data compliant, can be challenging. To help you offload these operational tasks associated with running your own logging stack, we offer Cloud Logging.

6 Strategic Recommendations FP&A Can Make With Cloud Cost Intelligence

If you're in FP&A, it can sometimes feel like outsiders think your job is all about routine tasks, like tracking budgets and reporting on cost — which couldn’t be further from the truth. A great FP&A professional deeply understands the business, has a strong command of its metrics, and uses that data to serve as a trusted advisor and partner to stakeholders. You’re not just a “counter” and “tracker” — you’re a driver of strategic outcomes.