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The cloud industry is at a crossroads. As conversations around data sovereignty and market competition reach a fever pitch, Civo is shaping the future. We're excited to share major updates to our AI platform, provide a deeper look into the evolving cloud landscape, and get you ready for our most anticipated events of the year.

Serverless applications have become one of the most efficient ways to build and deploy software. With platforms like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, teams can focus on writing code while the provider handles infrastructure, scaling, and availability. But going serverless doesn’t mean monitoring stops being important. In fact, monitoring becomes even more critical because you don’t have direct control over the servers, containers, or VMs.

Latest updates, insights, events, and more regarding Microsoft SCOM, SCOM MI, and Azure Monitor.

When debugging containerized applications in Kubernetes, kubectl logs serves as your primary command-line tool for accessing container logs directly. Understanding how to effectively retrieve, filter, and analyze logs becomes essential for maintaining application health and resolving issues quickly, especially in multi-container environments where correlation across services can make or break your troubleshooting efforts.

Debugging embedded software has never been easy, but today’s systems are more complex and interconnected than ever. Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and continuous integration pipelines can make development faster—but certain classes of bugs are hard to reproduce and diagnose. These elusive issues often appear only under rare conditions, such as timing-sensitive race conditions or field-only failures. This is where Continuous Observability, powered by Percepio Detect, changes the game.

You don’t invest in automation just to shave seconds off a workflow. You do it to reclaim time, reduce overhead, and eliminate waste that eats into margins. For a while, scripted chatbots and tier-1 deflection provided some degree of automation. They could close low-priority tickets or route FAQs, but rarely solved what mattered: zero-touch resolution and outcomes that don’t need follow-ups. Most enterprise automation is surface-level.

Nearly a third of IT leaders say lack of expertise is the biggest obstacle they face in managing their open source environments. It’s a problem that slows progress, increases risk, and makes it tough for organizations to unlock the full value of technologies like OpenStack, Ceph, or LXD.

This month we’re rolling out several new capabilities designed to simplify daily work for SOC teams, MSSPs, and enterprise security operations. The focus is on easier access control, streamlined log management, and faster vendor onboarding.