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An Azure Load Balancer is a Layer-4 (TCP, UDP) load balancer that provides high availability by distributing incoming traffic among healthy VMs. A load balancer health probe monitors a given port on each VM and only distributes traffic to an operational VM. Azure Load Balancers are frequently used in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) deployments. From our work with Azure Load Balancer, we think there are 4 key metrics and events you should proactively monitor and alert on.

Even in the most structured environments with clear operational strategies, complexity build-up in infrastructure and operations is unavoidable as businesses grow. To help these environments thrive in a consistent, reliable way, it’s vital to optimize the IT function: the backbone that supports every business application and ensures service excellence across all other functions. Automating operations is the only way for IT to scale and support today’s business demands.

Almost a decade ago, public clouds offered CIOs the possibility to explore OpEx based infrastructure to optimise their costs. A few years later, many came to the conclusion that the public cloud is not a one-size-fits-all solution to every infrastructure and operations challenge, and cloud repatriation projects gained popularity. CIOs began moving back some of their workloads to private and hybrid/multi-cloud environments to get the best of both worlds.

Azure Storage is a cloud-based storage solution that provides highly available, secure, scalable, and durable storage for your data. Azure Storage provides multiple types of storage options, including Blob storage, File storage, Queue storage, and Table storage. One of the critical factors in selecting Azure Storage is choosing the right region for your data. In this article, we’ll discuss Azure Storage Regions in detail and provide a comprehensive guide to help you make an informed decision.

As businesses increasingly rely on cloud storage solutions to store and manage their data, it’s essential to understand the limits of the storage options available to them. One popular cloud storage platform is Azure Storage, which offers a range of storage options including Blob storage, Queue storage, Table storage, and Virtual Machine disk storage.

Redis is a widely used in-memory database in the industry. As a consequence of its in-memory database, it can concurrently serve data as a key-value-oriented NoSQL database. Due to the use of in-memory data storage in Redis, you can achieve performance that is challenging with conventional databases. It is crucial to monitor Redis' resource usage since it is an in-memory data store.

Several tech giants like Amazon and Netflix have jumped from their monolithic applications to microservices. This has allowed them to expand their business interface tremendously and improve their services. Not only them, but most businesses today are dependent on microservices. Twitter currently has about a thousand such services working together, releasing meaningful outputs.