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The 8 Hidden Pitfalls of Using AWS CloudWatch

Feb 28, 2025 By Tomer Levy In logz.io
AWS CloudWatch is a widely used observability tool that comes built into AWS. It provides easy access to logs, metrics, and alarms, making it a convenient choice for teams monitoring AWS workloads. But while CloudWatch offers a lot of power, many teams unknowingly misconfigure or misuse it, leading to unexpected costs, limited visibility, and operational challenges. Here are some common pitfalls we see—and how to avoid them.
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10 Reasons Why Tech Companies Need StatusGator

Feb 28, 2025 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
Reliance on cloud services for infrastructure, collaboration, and seamless operations continues to grow. With organizations investing heavily in cloud infrastructure, Statista projects that the global public cloud computing market will reach $127 billion. As a result monitoring solutions have become indispensable. A well-monitored cloud environment helps reduce downtime, prevent revenue loss, and ensure smooth business operations.
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Pepperdata

The 5 Reasons to Buy (And Not Build!) Your Cost Optimization Solution

Feb 28, 2025 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
"Why buy a cloud cost optimization solution when I can just build it myself?" Here at Pepperdata, we often hear this question. Many of our prospects and customers have gone to great lengths implementing various optimization strategies and solutions to mitigate the cost of their cloud or on-prem data centers. These homegrown solutions might include monitoring tools, manual or automated instance rightsizing initiatives, enabling autoscaling, and application tuning.
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squared up

Getting started with Azure cost dashboards

Feb 27, 2025 By Sameer Mhaisekar In Squared Up
As an Azure admin, it is of critical importance that you keep an eye on how much cost you are incurring running your workloads in the cloud. You also want to have sight of any deployed resources that are not contributing to business and accumulating cost over time. Using a dedicated Azure plugin, SquaredUp dashboards will help you understand your Azure costs across services, resources, locations and apps – so you can keep tabs on how much you're spending and identify opportunities to save costs.
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Integrating Google SecOps with Bindplane February 2025

Feb 27, 2025 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle) is Google Cloud’s security operations platform (SIEM) that helps you detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. Integrating Bindplane enables an easy way of standardizing how you efficiently collect, process, and forward security-relevant data to Google SecOps. In this live workshop you’ll get a hands-on demo of how to configure log collection with the Bindplane Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector, and best practices for data standardization using open standards and OpenTelemetry.
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How to Monitor Azure Cloud Services with Grafana Cloud | Demo | Observability | Grafana Labs

Feb 27, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Microsoft Azure Cloud monitoring has never been more streamlined! In this video, Vasil Kaftandzhiev, Product Manager for Cloud Provider Observability in Grafana Cloud, walks you through how easy it is to monitor Azure Cloud Services with Grafana. With out-of-the-box dashboards, you can instantly visualize key metrics for essential Azure services like: API Gateway Queue Storage Virtual Machines Log Storage Events Hub Network Load Balancers SQL.
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Internxt

What Is The Best Cloud Storage For Small Business?

Feb 27, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
Cloud storage for small businesses offers a scalable and more affordable method to store files without relying on local storage. However, given the many options available, if you’re wondering what the best cloud storage is for a small business, this article will give you detailed insights into the importance of cloud storage and how it can help your small business manage your data securely and privately.
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cloudzero

10 AWS Cost Monitoring Tools To Analyze And Save In 2025

Feb 26, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
AWS cost monitoring tools enable you to track your resource consumption and costs associated with running operations on the AWS platform. These tools vary in capabilities but typically offer customizable reporting, dashboarding, data analytics, built-in automation, and cost alerting. Keep in mind that AWS monitoring differs from AWS management in that monitoring provides usage and cost data without necessarily offering optimization tools.
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logicmonitor

The challenges of agent-based monitoring for cloud virtual machines and how to overcome them

Feb 26, 2025 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Imagine discovering that 40% of your cloud infrastructure went unmonitored for a week because monitoring agents failed to deploy during an auto-scaling event. This scenario isn’t just hypothetical—it’s a growing reality for organizations relying on traditional agent-based monitoring in dynamic cloud environments.
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