Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Today, federal agencies rely extensively on Cloud-based SaaS applications for everything from payment processing and document management, to data security and employee workflow automation. These tools help departments to function very efficiently, but because they are being used for essential government functions, it’s vital that they are safe and secure. For example, personnel at The Pentagon or The Department of Homeland Security can’t just choose any software vendor in the marketplace.

When you use OpenTelemetry SDKs to collect logs, metrics, and traces from infrastructure or an application, you’ll find many references to people using Grafana Agent and OpenTelemetry Collector. They start with an application or infrastructure that sends telemetry, and that data is sent to a collector, which then sends it to a backend like Grafana that may perform many functions, including visualization.

How Levitate solves today's challenges of B2B SaaS monitoring, including noisy neighbors by unlocking per-tenant observability.

Our solution (Anodot) and CloudZero are popular choices regarding third-party solutions for businesses managing cloud costs, adapting a FinOps approach to make their cloud operations more efficient. That’s why a platform that can effectively support a FinOps model has become necessary for optimizing cloud functionality. Let’s analyze and dive deeper into who offers the best solutions, technology, and support to take your FinOps culture in the cloud to the next level.

We could probably sum up the direction the financial services industry is headed in just two words: digital transformation. It’s the buzzy, all-encompassing focus and end goal of financial services organizations near and far, and it’s the big reason why many organizations are thinking about process automation with a greater sense of urgency.

Patient care is the core of the mission for the HBLICT team. Serving more than 1.2 million adults and children in Hertfordshire, West Essex, Bedfordshire and East England, they provide a range of community health services and hold the highest standards for their care. Achieving this high quality of care requires a dedication to patient experience – and a dedication to the experience that their clinical staff have with technology.

When it comes to observability, we’ve found that most organizations have ~20 tools installed in their IT environments. With so many tools, it’s difficult for IT leaders to gain insight into how their tools are performing and determine how much value ITOps is bringing to the organization.

Integration of EverSQL’s AI-powered engine into the Aiven open source data platform will deliver new performance and cost optimization capabilities to customers.

In the world of modern Kubernetes, things have come a long way from the days of a single cluster handling one app. Now, it's common to see setups that span multiple clusters across different clouds. Initially, managing those clusters was a complicated operation with many moving parts. Using tools such as SUSE Rancher, RedHat OpenShift or AWS EKS, made managing multiple clusters somewhat easier.

If your digital service relies on holiday traffic, now is the time to check your Service Level Objectives (SLOs). SLOs are the performance objectives you set for your service to meet its Service Level Agreements. Even if they’re internal and not guaranteed to customers, SLOs can be very helpful in measuring the quality of service you’re providing.