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Microsoft Azure Monitor is the native monitoring platform for Azure environments. For teams already running workloads in Azure, it offers an obvious starting point: it's built in, deeply integrated, and parts of it are genuinely free.

The case for Cloud ERP has been settled for a while. The case for this year has not.

Raygun APM Agent 3.1 introduces more accurate asynchronous request tracing for Windows, Linux, and Azure App Service. Version 3.0 rebuilt the foundation of the Agent, profiler, installers, and release pipeline. Version 3.1 builds on that work with a focused improvement for ASP.NET Core: automatic request correlation that follows asynchronous execution without requiring developers to instrument their application.

What happens when a citizen-facing portal fails on the last day of a filing deadline, and the only record of the outage lives in an email thread between two engineers? In a commercial organization, that is an operational embarrassment. In a government department, it is a hole in a statutory record that an auditor will eventually ask about.

Version 4.0 renumbered PCI DSS Requirement 10 from end to end, and the Council retired v3.2.1 on 31 March 2024. Sub-requirement numbers written before then mostly point somewhere else now. Four more Requirement 10 rules changed status on 31 March 2025, automated log review among them. Checking your numbering against v4.0.1 costs an afternoon and saves a finding. In this blog, you will: PCI DSS Requirement 10 covers audit logging and monitoring across the cardholder data environment.

As agentic AI workflows gain traction within organizations, those organizations are asking how to account for their behavior while keeping costs manageable. Some are sticking with the old three pillars of observability approach: take a measurement to create a metric, record output to a log, and track serial progress with a trace. Each of these is useful, but treating them as distinct formats from the start means paying for them distinctly too. Separate storage doesn't come cheap.

If you have a large collection of photos you don’t know what to do with, and need a fast, efficient way to store and keep your memories protected, then cloud storage may be the option for you. Moving your photos to cloud storage is a simple way to store, back up, and manage your photo library without relying only on your phone, computer, or physical storage devices. But how do you move photos to the cloud, do your photos automatically get backed up, and how much cloud storage do you actually need?