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Is FinOps All Talk and No Walk?

I am a big proponent of cross-functional alignment, as I remnded our ELT at a recent off-site meeting. There’s a lot of buzz about FinOps bringing financial accountability to cloud spend by eliminating procurement siloes and implementing cross-functional best practices. As the CFO of a SaaS company, I fully support this practice. In fact, Virtana recently made some changes to our cloud infrastructure as part of our own evolution.

Sumo Logic extends monitoring for AWS Fargate powered by AWS Graviton2 processors

Back in 2018, AWS first released its Graviton processor—their custom-built 64-bit Arm processor—and followed that with the release of Graviton2 processors just a year later. Now customers running ECS and EKS on EC2 can choose between X86 and ARM64 depending on which processor best fits their application workload.

How to streamline Windows monitoring for better security

If you’re responsible for a significant number of Windows servers, you already understand the importance of being aware of the health and security of your environment. Unfortunately, you’re probably also aware of the tremendous amount of effort and resources required to monitor your Windows environment. Let’s take a look into why and how you should be closely monitoring your Windows server environments from a security perspective.

Galileo Cloud Compass Makes Calculating Cloud Costs EASY

Congratulations, you’ve been tasked with moving your workload to somebody else’s building! The “cloud” is just that: someone else’s data center. But their data center is pretty impressive (so there’s that). And, yes, while there are a million options available to you in AWS and Azure…a plethora of IT goodies, most of us will not use any of those bells and whistles, at least initially. We have to get there first—your basic lift and shift.

Overcoming Common Serverless Challenges in Production

Serverless has been around for a while now and is rapidly maturing day by day. Serverless Guru has been building serverless applications for clients since 2018 and we’ve learned some serious lessons first hand. In this talk, Serverless Guru founder Ryan Jones and AWS Serverless Hero and Lumigo Developer Advocate Yan Cui, will dive into some common challenges in production applications they have seen and how they’ve built solutions to overcome them.

Obfuscate user data with Session Replay default privacy settings

Session Replay enables you to replay in a video-like format how users interact with your website to help you understand behavioral patterns and save time troubleshooting. Visibility into user sessions, however, can risk exposing sensitive data and raise privacy concerns. For example, a user session may include typing in a credit card or social security number into an input field.

Monitor Google Workspace with Datadog

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) is a collection of cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools developed by Google. Today, millions of teams use Google Workspace (e.g., Gmail, Drive, Hangouts) to streamline their workflows. Monitoring Google Workspace activity is an essential part of security monitoring and audits, especially if these applications have become tightly integrated with your organization’s data.

A 3-step guide to troubleshooting and visualizing Kubernetes with Grafana Cloud

Back in May, we announced the Kubernetes integration to help users easily monitor and alert on core Kubernetes cluster metrics using the Grafana Agent, our lightweight observability data collector optimized for sending metric, log, and trace data to Grafana Cloud. Since then, we’ve made some improvements to help our customers go even further.

Top 7 ManageEngine Competitors and Alternatives in 2021

ManageEngine is Zoho Corporation's enterprise IT management software subsidiary. AdventNet Inc. was founded in 1996 and was known as such until 2009. Over 90 tools are included in ManageEngine to assist you in managing all areas of your IT infrastructure, including networks, applications, servers, service desks, security, active directory, desktops, and mobile devices. They've also built products with contextual integration from the ground up to ensure that you can manage your IT together.

Understanding Apache Logging: How to View, Locate and Analyze Access & Error Logs

Apache – the technology that powers the web. I’m not sure if that is correct, but I think that we wouldn’t see the world wide web in its current shape without it. Launched in 1995 and since April 1996, it has been the most popular web server around the world. Because of handling your users’ requests, Apache serves as the front application. It is crucial to understand what your server is doing, what file users are accessing, from where they came, and much, much more.