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Using Stackdriver Workspaces to help manage your hybrid and multicloud environment

At Google, we believe strongly in an open cloud. We’re continually working to bring you tools for understanding how your applications are performing, whether they run in different projects, organizations, clouds, or even on prem. Monitoring tools like Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring, OpenCensus, and Stackdriver APM are designed to help you get visibility into your workloads wherever they run—on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), on-premises or on another cloud platform.

What Happened with Microsoft's Outage Last Week?

On the morning of September 4th, 2018 a number of customers experienced sign-in problems related to an outage for Azure, Azure AD and, in turn, Office 365. The issue was caused by an outage in Microsoft’s South Central U.S. datacenter. The problem ended up affecting customers in other regions, too, as we will see.

Introducing PagerDuty and Azure DevOps

More and more organizations are adopting DevOps practices, and it’s been well documented that DevOps is more of a journey than a true destination. Development teams release software more often on increasingly ephemeral infrastructure, making communication and agility a business requirement. PagerDuty helps modern DevOps teams automate their incident resolution process so they can deliver better software, faster.

Key metrics for AWS monitoring

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has spurred organizations to embrace Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to build, automate, and scale their systems. Over the years, AWS has expanded beyond basic compute resources (such as EC2 and S3), to include tools like CloudWatch for AWS monitoring, and managed infrastructure services like Amazon RDS for database management.