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Five worthy reads: Remote workplaces: Is hybrid the way to go?

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we discuss the merits of going hybrid in this era of distributed workforces and remote working culture. While it has become imperative for organizations to implement remote work policies, the question of cloud adoption has become almost unavoidable.

Visualizing VMInsights data in SquaredUp

Following the release of Azure Monitor for VMs in January 2020, some changes have been made to how its performance data is stored in Log Analytics. The most significant of these changes is that this data is now stored in the InsightsMetrics table rather than in the Perf table, as we discussed in our ‘What is Azure VM Insights?’ article.

Cloud logging

There’s no tool that can replace the best practices for DevOps or SRE, but there is a tool that can allow you greater observability over your logs in a distributed infrastructure involving multiple products. In this episode of Google Cloud Platform Essentials, we show you how logs are aggregated for all Google Cloud products, how to utilize them, and how to use them for tracking application errors.