Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Ben Schaechter is co-founder & CEO of Vantage, a cloud cost management platform that provides actionable insights for every engineer. Observability tools have changed the way we monitor infrastructure and applications, as teams get complete visibility into performance across complex, multi-cloud environments. But as all that infrastructure scales, costs rise with it, and organizations are left to ask: Where are my costs going—and why?

Canonical is proud to announce it has achieved the ISO 21434 certification for its Security Management System, following an extensive assessment by TÜV SÜD, a globally respected certification provider. This milestone highlights Canonical’s leadership in providing trusted and reliable open source solutions for the automotive sector.

Imagine your PostgreSQL database slowing down unexpectedly, causing delayed queries, application timeouts, and frustrated users. In a data-driven world, database performance issues can lead to downtime, lost revenue, and poor user experience. PostgreSQL monitoring tools help detect and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring optimal database health, efficient query execution, and high availability.

88% of online consumers are less likely to return to a site after a bad user experience. This means that addressing frontend issues such as slow load times, broken features, and unresponsive elements is crucial. Frontend monitoring helps development and IT teams proactively catch and resolve these issues to improve their user experience.

High-traffic applications demand speed, reliability, and scalability, making Redis a top choice for tasks like caching and real-time analytics. However, as traffic grows, ensuring Redis operates at peak performance requires effective monitoring. By tracking key metrics, addressing bottlenecks, and optimizing resource use, Redis monitoring plays a vital role in maintaining stability and scalability.

According to Google, "SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.” The role of site reliability engineers (SREs) is evolving rapidly to ensure optimal application performance in today's evolving IT environments. SREs are expected to provide proactive and predictive solutions for the issues arising from managing such environments. A Gartner report even suggests that by 2025, 70% organizations will be depending on SRE practices to ensure operational resilience.

SquaredUp is a flexible dashboard and analytics platform that makes it really easy to turn your PowerShell scripts into dashboards that you can use for monitoring or sharing. In this article we’ll take a look at getting started with the PowerShell plugin for SquaredUp and build our first dashboard. Sign up for a free account if you’d like to follow along.

Network performance is critical for everything from streaming videos to running cloud applications. But what happens when your network feels sluggish, and tasks that should take seconds suddenly take minutes? The culprit could be low network bandwidth. In this article, we’ll break down what low bandwidth means, how it affects your network, and actionable steps to fix it.

If you are considering or planning a migration to Amazon Workspaces or AppStream 2.0, you’ll also want to consider how you integrate effective monitoring into your planning and execution – this will not only save you time and money long term but will also help you measure and achieve success.

Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions — without managing infrastructure. Today, we are excited to announce the technical preview of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure — now available in the EastUS region. Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions without managing infrastructure.