Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Public cloud can deliver significant business value across infrastructure cost savings, team productivity, service elasticity, and DevOps agility. Yet, up to 70% of organizations are regularly overshooting their cloud budgets, minimizing the gap between cloud costs and the revenue cloud investments can drive.

GitOps takes DevOps best practices used for application development (such as version control and CI/CD) and applies them to infrastructure automation. In GitOps, the Git repository serves as the source of truth and the CD pipeline is responsible for building, testing, and deploying the application code and the underlying infrastructure. Nowadays, an application is not just code running on infrastructure that you own and operate.

Metrics are the cornerstone of an observable system – they tell you a system’s measured outputs, granting visibility into what your customers are experiencing and when there’s a problem. However, not all methods for recording and saving metrics from a system’s output are alike. The best method for shipping your system’s metrics to Grafana Cloud depends on many factors, varying from the source of your metrics data to your familiarity with observability tools.

The term DevOps is a combination of the words “development” and “operations.” In practice, DevOps is a collaborative approach to the work that is performed by an enterprise’s IT operations staff and their application developers. Collaboration and communication between these two teams, who might otherwise function separately, are meant to increase the speed and quality of product or application releases.

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (or AIOps for short) continues to be a hot topic among developers, SREs, and DevOps professionals. The case for AIOps is especially crucial given the expansive nature of today’s observability efforts across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As with most observability platforms, it all starts with your telemetry data: metrics, logs, traces, and events.

Splunk Mobile puts the power of Splunk in your hands. But with great power, comes great responsibility. That’s why this year with the release of Splunk Enterprise 9.0, we’ve shipped Splunk Secure Gateway (the backend service that powers Splunk Mobile) with even more features and tools to help you responsibly manage your mobile fleet.

Cloud cost anomalies are unpredicted variations (typically increases) in cloud spending that are larger than expected based on historical patterns. Misconfiguration, unused resources, malicious activity or overambitious projects are some of the reasons for unexpected anomalies in cloud costs. Even the smallest of incidents can add up over time leading to cost overruns and bill shock.

Nowadays, most organizations are highly dependent on APM technology, but many are shifting to automated monitoring, which is generally referred to as AIOps technology. AIOps is considered the future of operations management for organizations. As we already know, AI is considered the next revolution in the history of mankind. AIOps uses advanced AI for supporting day-to-day operational tasks so the employees don’t need to hassle for no reason.

The cloud is limitless – a key factor in its appeal – but it also introduces a new set of problems. Enterprises are looking to innovate at rapid speed, to achieve business outcomes, and deliver superior user experiences. But the majority of enterprises need to continue to maintain complex hybrid infrastructures as well as diversify their cloud strategies across multi-cloud environments.