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A Look at the Latest Cloud Data Source Plugins in Grafana

The engineers at Grafana Labs have their heads in the clouds. “This is a new world: We have hybrid clouds and multiclouds,” Daniel Lee told the crowd gathered at GrafanaCon 2019 in Los Angeles. And the advantage clients have when using Grafana’s hosted services is that “they can deploy them on any cloud,” said Lee.

Coralogix teams up with AWS Marketplace for Log Management

AWS offers a plethora of log and metric data but in order to extract meaningful insights and react to production issues on a dime, a centralized logging solution is critical. Today we’re excited to announce the availability of Coralogix on the AWS Marketplace for the first time. You can now get our advanced machine learning log insights directly in your AWS cloud account for full-stack log aggregation, convenient billing, tighter security with your AWS infrastructure, and faster deployment.

Platforms All The Way Up & Down

All businesses today are built on layers of platforms. The app running your business is built on top of the Kubernetes application deployment platform, running on the AWS cloud platform. AWS is built on top of platforms such as the Linux operating system and the Intel X86 processor architecture. Smartly managed, a good product evolves into a platform for users to extract value and for developers to create new products and platforms. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.

How to Monitor Amazon EC2 with CloudWatch

Amazon EC2 allows you to spin up servers for your application without having to actually manage physical hardware. However, since it’s a managed service, you have less visibility with traditional monitoring tools. As such, it becomes even more important to take advantage of the available monitoring tools in AWS. In this post, we’ll explain how to use CloudWatch to monitor EC2 and what is important to watch.

Logging Your Cloud Foundry Apps to LogDNA

Cloud Foundry Application Runtime is an open source platform as a service (PaaS) for running applications and services. Frequently called simply “Cloud Foundry,” the Cloud Foundry Application Runtime (CFAR) is one of many interoperable projects within the Cloud Foundry family. For the purposes of this post, “Cloud Foundry” refers to the Application Runtime.

Monitoring AWS EC2 with Metricbeat, the ELK Stack and Logz.io

Amazon EC2 is the cornerstone for any Amazon-based cloud deployment. Enabling you to provision and scale compute resources with different memory, CPU, networking and storage capacity in multiple regions all around the world, EC2 is by far Amazon’s most popular and widely used service.

Simplifying Cloud Management With OpsRamp: Part 3

This is the third of a three-part series on how OpsRamp helps enterprise IT operations team manage the challenges of migrating to the cloud. Read part one here and part two here. Now that migration is complete, IT organizations will be responsible for monitoring and managing a mix of hybrid, multi-cloud resources across a distributed footprint. OpsRamp ensures comprehensive visibility, rapid remediation, and constant optimization for these dynamic, multi-cloud environments at scale.