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10 Ways MSPs Can Punch Above Their Weight

Sometimes we associate fast-growing networks with power and success, but being small doesn’t mean you can’t compete—you just need to be smarter at creating a sustainable competitive advantage. Here are 10 things you can do as a small managed service provider (MSP) to punch above your weight. A documented process is a consistent process. And once you document how a process is carried out, you can then look for ways it can be improved.

Measuring Cloud Instance Costs for FinOps

Achieving cost savings is one of the main drivers for cloud adoption. But for most companies, controlling cloud spend is much more challenging than anticipated. In a recent survey, 94% of IT decision makers report they are overspending in the cloud. Our own survey on cloud costs revealed 90% of executives say better cloud cost management and cost reduction is a top priority.

Cloud Governance vs. Cloud Management

The cloud has revolutionized the way businesses operate. It allows organizations to access computing resources and data storage over the internet instead of relying on on-premises servers and infrastructure. While this flexibility is one of the main benefits of using the cloud, it can also create security and compliance challenges for organizations. That’s where cloud governance comes in. Cloud governance is a framework for managing and regulating how data is accessed and used in the cloud.

Splunk APM Expands Code Profiling Capabilities with Several New GAs

We’re excited to share new Splunk capabilities to help measure how code performance impacts your services. Splunk APM’s AlwaysOn Profiling now supports.NET and Node.js applications for CPU profiling, and Java applications for memory profiling. AlwaysOn Profiling gives app developers and service owners code level visibility into resource bottlenecks by continuously profiling service performance, at minimal overhead.

Microservice Application Monitoring Tips and Tricks

Microservices have grown to become one of the most optimal alternatives to monoliths. However, just building your app and releasing it to the public isn’t everything. Monitoring microservices is as important as building and releasing them. You need to maintain it to resolve issues that may occur and also introduce new features from time to time.

How adding Kubernetes label selectors caused an outage in Grafana Cloud Logs - and how we resolved it

Hello, I’m Callum. I work on Grafana Loki, including the hosted Grafana Cloud Logs offering. Grafana Loki is a distributed multi-tenant system for storing log data — ingestion, querying, all that fun stuff. It also powers Grafana Cloud Logs.

OpenTelemetry Logs, OpenTelemetry Go, and the Road Ahead

We’ve got a lot of OpenTelemetry-flavored honey to send your way, ranging from OpenTelemetry SDK distribution updates to protocol support. We now support OpenTelemetry logs, released a new SDK distribution for OpenTelemetry Go, and have some updates around OpenTelemetry + Honeycomb to share. Let’s see what all the buzz is about this time! 🐝🐝

Best Remote System Monitoring Solutions in 2022

Companies must effectively monitor their assets and networks in today's competitive setting, get the most significant result, and react swiftly to problems. However, such a situation is unusual with companies that continue to run in a traditional, isolated setting. These companies frequently don't have precise asset performance tracking procedures.

Obtaining and Storing Time Series Data with Python

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to use Python to get time series data from the OpenWeatherMap API and convert it to a Pandas DataFrame. Next we’ll write that data to InfluxDB, a time-series data platform, with the InfluxDB Python Client. We’ll convert the JSON response from our API call to a Pandas DataFrame because I find that that’s the easiest way to write data to InfluxDB.