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Understand Your AWS Cost & Usage with Honeycomb

AWS bills are notoriously complicated, and the Amazon Cost Explorer doesn’t always make it easy to understand exactly where your money is going. When we embarked on our journey to reduce our AWS bill, we wanted more than just the Cost Explorer to help us figure out where to optimize — and when all you have is a hammer, every problem sure looks like it can be solved with Honeycomb!

[OpsComm July] Helping Technology and Solution Partners Deliver Greater Customer Value with OpsRamp's New Partner Program

In July 2019, OpsRamp launched the new Partner Program to help reseller, service provider, and system integration partners build expertise around multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring and modern incident management. July was also a month of industry recognition, with CRN naming OpsRamp as an emerging vendor in the Cloud category. Our resident experts continued to contribute to industry publications with several articles and podcasts.

Ask Us Anything: Your Questions about MySQL, Elasticsearch, Grafana, and More

The Grafana Labs community has more than 600 developers around the world who contribute to our open source projects. From time to time, they also ask really great questions about how to get started in Grafana, how to solve an issue, or how to implement best practices for various functions. Here are three questions that have gotten some of the most clicks on the Grafana community board – and the answers from Grafana Labs’ Director of Software Engineering, Daniel Lee.

New Integration - Create Microsoft Azure DevOps Work Items directly from Rollbar

Does your team use Azure DevOps for tracking work? You’re going to love our latest integration if that’s the case. You can now create and resolve Work Items in Azure DevOps directly from Rollbar, making error monitoring and debugging even faster. This is the latest addition to our toolkit for the Microsoft ecosystem (read about our Azure Active Directory integration). It reinforces our mission to help software developers build software quickly and painlessly.

10 Ways to Simplify Cloud Monitoring

Is monitoring in the cloud special enough to warrant a list of tips and best practices? We think so. On the one hand, monitoring in the cloud might seem easy since there is a large number of solutions to choose from. On the other hand, though, the dynamic and distributed nature of the cloud can make the process much more challenging. In this article, we’ll cover ten tips and best practices that will help you ace your cloud monitoring game.

How and why we're bringing long-term storage to Netdata

We’ve built a lot of amazing things into the open-source Netdata monitoring system. But, no matter how far we’ve come, we’ll always be proud of how little RAM it uses. Right now, Netdata stores metrics in your system’s RAM using a ridiculously efficient database. It only saves or loads historical metrics from disk when you restart it. With this system, Netdata can be both low-resource and exhaustive in its collection of real-time metrics.

Gain Real-Time Insights for Hybrid Infrastructure with the OpsRamp Gateway

The 2019 RightScale State of Cloud report shows that 45% of IT leaders voted for hybrid infrastructure as their top operational priority (public cloud comes second at 31%). With enterprises expected to use a combination of legacy and modern infrastructure for the foreseeable future, how do digital operations teams drive greater availability and proactive system performance for mission-critical services running on hybrid architectures?