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What is cloud cost anomaly detection? Cloud cost anomaly detection is a perfect example of the saying “a penny saved is a penny earned.” Imagine your monthly cloud bill suddenly skyrocketing despite no new services being added to your app.

Building a mobile app often involves selecting the right framework that aligns with your team’s skill set and project requirements. Two popular choices are Ionic and React Native, both of which enable cross-platform development. ‍ In this post, we’ll compare these frameworks and share why we, at ilert, decided to use Ionic for our mobile app.

Businesses, organizations, and individuals rely on networks to communicate and exchange data. The rapid growth of technology and increasing reliance on networked systems have made robust network performance and security critical. However, maintaining optimal network performance and security is a difficult task. Network failures, security breaches, and performance bottlenecks can result in substantial financial losses and reputational damage. What Is Network Device Monitoring?

Educational platforms are essential for students, educators, and institutions, making service disruptions especially impactful. StatusGator’s early detection ensures that users receive timely alerts before official acknowledgments, helping them navigate unexpected downtime. Below, we recap significant education-related outages from January 2025, where StatusGator kept users ahead of disruptions.

Site reliability engineers (SREs) often face challenges in keeping an organization’s sites running smoothly as the complexity of distributed systems steadily increases. With the rise of microservices, cloud-native architectures, and massive data volumes, manual monitoring and troubleshooting are no longer sustainable. SREs must navigate hurdles like alert fatigue, incident response delays, and the constant pressure to maintain system reliability.

SquaredUp is a flexible dashboard and analytics platform that makes it really easy to dashboard your M365 and Intune usage and analytics. You can then use it for monitoring or sharing! In this article we’ll take a look at getting started with the M365 plugin for SquaredUp and building our first dashboard. Sign up for a free account if you’d like to follow along.

At Mezmo, we handle an enormous volume of telemetry data for our customers and ourselves, requiring a robust and efficient search and analytics backend. For years, ElasticSearch served us well, but as our infrastructure grew to a multi-cluster, multi-petabyte scale, we started to see the cracks—rising costs, performance bottlenecks, and scalability concerns. We needed a change, one that would make our system more cost-effective while maintaining speed and reliability.

PostgreSQL is a beast when it comes to handling data, but if you're running an instance that needs to be accessed remotely, securing it with SSL is non-negotiable. Without SSL, your database connection is essentially an open book for anyone snooping on the network. Let’s lock it down with properly signed certificates!

It has been said that software engineers are organisms that convert caffeine into code. Not all software engineers need coffee to get by, but it's popular enough that it'd be silly for us not to have an office coffee machine... …it'd also be sort of silly for a monitoring company not to monitor that coffee machine, which is so crucial that we could make a reasonable argument for it being part of the production infrastructure.

We are happy to announce that Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distribution architecture. Ubuntu has been a widely used Linux distribution on WSL, offering a familiar development environment for many users. This new distribution architecture for WSL will make adoption easier in enterprise environments by enabling image customization and deployments at scale.