Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In the midst of a complex and challenging global environment, I’m proud and excited to announce General Availability for Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring, our new metrics monitoring and analytics solution based on Grafana. Additionally, we’re supporting Early Availability for our new Distributed Tracing offering powered by Jaeger. The release represents a huge next step in our mission to provide the best open source for observability as a fully managed, cost-effective cloud service.

Monitoring your cloud infrastructure is an essential part of making sure your operations are running smoothly. Since announcing the new Cloud Logging interface in February, we’ve heard from users that the new interface is making it faster and easier to meet logging needs, including troubleshooting issues, verifying deployments, and ensuring compliance. One of those users, Arne Claus, is a site reliability engineer at trivago, and has taken advantage of the new interface already.

Today every organization has invested in the cloud for higher agility, scalability, computing performance, and more. With self-service portals offering easier provisioning, cloud-based services and platforms have reduced operational overheads on IT teams significantly. Further, with cloud, organizations can choose pay-as-you-go plans without making any heavy upfront investments, get full visibility into their spending, and achieve a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

We are excited to announce a new solution for our customers to monitor the performance, availability, and security of their Zoom video conferencing service. The Sumo Logic for Zoom app is available today in our app catalog. This new app will be added to our ‘Work From Home’ solution which is available for free, with no obligation.

In the past few weeks, financial firms and governments have had to build and launch websites in a hurry — for a multitude of reasons including the emergency loan programmes that have been backed by various governments around the world including the USA and Europe.

In this post we will cover some of the main use cases FluentD supports and provide example FluentD configurations for the different cases.

As a system administrator, you will need to monitor your containers for a wide array of reasons. Between analyzing the health of your containers, avoiding resource constraints, and collecting, parsing, and visualizing data, one could easily get lost.