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Accurately Forecasting Cloud Costs

Most companies today have a “cloud first” computing strategy. According to Foundry’s April 2022 report outlining their 2022 Cloud Computing research, 92% of businesses globally have moved to the cloud. What’s more, the percentage of companies with most or all of their IT infrastructure in the cloud is expected to leap from 41% today to 63% in the next 18 months. As companies move more workloads onto various cloud platforms, cloud budgets continue to increase.

Anodot Supports the FinOps Foundation Mission

As a member of the FinOps organization, Anodot is excited to sponsor the upcoming FinOps X event in Austin, TX. Anodot’s mission has always been to help organizations solve one of the most recognized challenges associated with public cloud adoption — cost control and optimization. Every feature of our Anodot cloud cost management platform has been built by taking a core FinOps market concern and working backward to deliver a capability that fills that need.

Monitoring: The ROI of Build vs. Buy

I’ve written before about building your own monitoring systems versus buying a monitoring tool like Redgate SQL Monitor. There I talked about the time that someone tasked with managing and maintaining data gets back in their day when they purchase a monitoring solution. However, that’s not where the business focuses. The business frequently wants to know one thing and one thing only: what’s the return on this investment (ROI).

How to monitor Elasticsearch with OpenTelemetry

Some popular monitoring tools in the market can complicate and create blind spots in your Elasticsearch monitoring. That’s why we made monitoring Elasticsearch simple, straightforward and actionable. Read along as we dive into the steps to monitor Elasticsearch using observIQ’s distribution of the OpenTelemetry collector. To monitor Elasticsearch we will configure two OpenTelemetry receivers, the elasticsearch receiver and the JVM receiver.

PHP - Monitoring a PHP application with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

In this tutorial, we will use OpenTelemetry to instrument a PHP application for telemetry data. It’s essential to monitor your PHP application for performance issues and bugs. Application owners need good telemetry data from their application in order to monitor it effectively. That’s where OpenTelemetry comes into the picture. OpenTelmetry provides client libraries for many programming languages, including PHP, which can be used to instrument applications.

Announcing InfluxDB Edge Data Replication: Combining the Power of the Cloud with the Precision of the Edge

There are technical and business reasons to have a time series data presence both at the edge and in the cloud – InfluxDB has always played a key role in both contexts. Today, we’re announcing Edge Data Replication, a new feature that combines these two deployment strategies. With this announcement, InfluxData begins a greater initiative to accommodate both edge and cloud data workloads in one unified solution.

InfluxData Announces InfluxDB Edge Data Replication

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced Edge Data Replication, a new capability for centralized business insights in widely distributed environments. Edge Data Replication enables developers to collect, store and analyze high-precision time series data in InfluxDB at the edge, while replicating all or subsets of this data into InfluxDB Cloud.