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GCP monitoring and alerting with Applications Manager

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google, launched in 2008. It is a powerful cloud platform that offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, and serverless computing environments. Many companies are now using GCP to build, modernize, and scale their businesses. GCP monitoring with Applications Manager Monitoring GCP service instances can be pretty challenging.

Has GitHub Been Down More Since Its Acquisition by Microsoft?

Two years ago, on June 4th of 2018, Microsoft announced its acquisition of GitHub, unicorn darling of the developer tools startup ecosystem, for $7.5B in stock. The announcement unearthed a wide range of opinions and pontifications, ranging from “GitHub is doomed” to “Microsoft is smart”, with many predictions about GitHub’s future. Some thought Microsoft’s growing investments in its cloud offering, Azure, might help GitHub.

The Malicious Gocgle Campaign Targeting Customers' Payment Details

The COVID-19 virus epidemic has seen a 23% rise in visitors to UK independent ecommerce sites. On a global scale, many companies have transitioned to fully ecommerce-based business practices and are seeing an increase in online shoppers. This paradigm shift in business continuity means websites are increasingly vulnerable to being attacked.

How Hiya migrated to Grafana Cloud to cut costs and gain control over its metrics

Last year, when a company that works with several of the world’s top carriers, OEMs, and enterprises to provide caller identity and spam blocking services for more than 120 million users needed to make changes to their monitoring service, Grafana Labs got the call. Hiya was founded in 2016, and from the start was a container-centric Kubernetes shop.

Access More Integrations With the LogicMonitor Exchange

LogicMonitor is the leading provider of infrastructure performance monitoring, offering granular insight and data collection across your entire IT stack. This includes on-premises hardware, microservices, and the Cloud. However, in a constantly evolving industry with increasing demands, your monitoring tool needs to be able to cover a broad array of technologies and integrations. LogicMonitor solves this with the LM Exchange.

Using Helm for Kubernetes management and configuration

Helm is a popular open-source tool used to manage and configure your Kubernetes cluster. Basically, it is a package manager (think Homebrew or NPM) built for Kubernetes. It helps automate processes like installing, configuring, upgrading, and removing items. This post will give you a brief introduction to Helm and how it might help you manage your Kubernetes cluster.

Azure dashboards: SquaredUp vs. Azure portal (Part 2 - Application Insights)

In Part 1 of this series, we compared the Azure portal vs. SquaredUp in terms of how easy it is to make a VM-level dashboard and how good that dashboard is in terms of features and functionality. In this one, we will compare the two portals in terms of application-level dashboards.

The First OpenObservability Conference is a Wrap

Last week, the first OpenObservability conference took place. This event had amazing content contributions from open source project leaders, users, and influencers. We’ve seen massive growth and adoption in the open source observability space from the inspiring work being done across tracing, logging, and especially metrics. The new data stores and capabilities are growing at breakneck speed. There are more choices— yet more complexity—than ever before.

Service Request Automation - Fulfil Cloud Requests The Easy Way

Service Request Automation – Fulfil Cloud Requests The Easy Way The typical Service Desk model consists of 1st line support contemplating how a call should be answered, and then passing it to 2nd and 3rd line to fulfil the requirement. In the new world of Cloud and AI Ops, there is a more streamlined; efficient and autonomous process.