Before we jump into cloud cost optimization, let us address the elephant in the room. Businesses are moving to the cloud but are struggling with unpredictable cloud bills. If you are a business owner who has moved to the cloud recently, you need to understand each cloud touchpoint and get a transparent view of your cloud services. When it comes to cloud cost optimization, there are many tools and techniques that organizations can adopt. Most of these can only take you so far.

The System Administrator! AKA the Sysadmin. The keeper of the network, computers – well basically all things technology. The one who is hated for imposing complex passwords and other restrictions, but taken for granted when everything works well. They are the first to be called when “facebuuk.com” reports: “domain does not exist”.

Find out how to effectively and easily monitor and troubleshoot BIND 9 using Netdata.

Observability, monitoring, and telemetry are crucial for maintaining the performance and reliability of modern systems. Their concepts are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct differences that are important to understand. In this blog, we’ll explore each concept in detail, including key characteristics and examples of tools. We’ll also compare observability vs monitoring vs telemetry and discuss when it’s appropriate to use each.

Tools like Fluentbit and Fluentd make log management more efficient by centralizing log data from multiple sources and providing the ability to monitor and analyze it all in one place. Log management is the practice of collecting, storing, analyzing, and monitoring log data from various systems and applications. This log data can provide valuable insights for organizations such as identifying system issues, troubleshooting problems, detecting security threats, and meeting compliance requirements.

Understand what makes a storage device S.M.A.R.T and how to monitor a self monitoring component using Netdata.

Learn how Solutia Consulting relied on Checkly to confidently deploy client software updates Solutia Consulting is an information technology consulting firm based in Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota. Solutia provides assessment and advisory services, dev team staff augmentation, managed IT services, and project-based contract work for a variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to mid-sized enterprises and organizations.

The upcoming release of Vantage DX packs in more usability features to help IT teams quickly get to the root of Teams performance issues. Our recently launched Teams dashboards have been updated and UI improvements now provide quick access to Teams Meeting Room performance data and new Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard (CQD) integration upgrades simplify set up.