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Digging Into the Recent Azure Outage

In the early hours of Wednesday, January 25, Microsoft’s public cloud suffered a major outage that disrupted their cloud-based services and popular applications such as Sharepoint, Teams, and Office 365. Microsoft has since blamed the outage on a flawed router command which took down a significant portion of the cloud’s connectivity beginning at 07:09 UTC.

Grafana documentation: A look at the new and improved design

We recently launched a new design for our technical documentation. The goal of the redesign was to make our technical documentation more accessible, modern, and scalable as we grow. In addition to a new look (hello, new typeface and layout!), our updated docs pages reveal the underlying work our team has done to evolve and enhance our technical documentation.

Getting Out of the 1990s Era of Manual Troubleshooting

Because today’s businesses rely on their network like never before, the network needs to be available at all times to provide the connectivity required by remote workers, cloud applications, and automated systems. As the network has become critical to everyday operations, network troubleshooting has evolved from being a mundane task to one of the core functions of the Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) department.

Innovation, Agility, Engagement: Three Keys for Success in Europe in 2023

2023 looks set to be challenging for businesses right across Europe. What can IT functions do to help their organizations survive and thrive? 2022 was a hard year for many organizations, with staff shortages, cost inflation, supply chain issues, and more. If anything, 2023 looks set to be even tougher here in Europe, with GDP growth forecast to fall from 3.3% across the EU in 2022, to around 0.3% for 2023. made more complex this time by historically high levels of employment.

Profiling: Buzzword or Critical Observability Tool? | Snack of the Week

Profiling may seem like the latest buzzword in the monitoring and observability world, but profiling tools have actually been in use for decades. I’m going to quickly explain what profiling is and why modern profilers are getting so much attention lately.

Logic App Best practices, Tips, and Tricks: #20 Accessing Runtime Settings (Part II) - Logic App Standard

In my last blog post, I discussed How you could access runtime settings like the Subscription Id or the Resource Group in Logic App Consumption. I mentioned there that this differs from Consumption to Standard since they have different engines. So today, in this second part, we are going to address: How to access runtime settings inside Logic App Standard.