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Cloud Monitoring: Create custom notification channels

Are you looking to learn how to send alerts from Cloud Monitoring to your custom notification service? In this video, we share the different ways of processing notifications from Cloud Monitoring. Watch this video to learn the steps involved in sending the notifications from Cloud Monitoring using Cloud Run to your custom notification service, including a description of the sample notification service and of the Cloud Run code.

Patch Management KPI Metrics

Around 57% of data breaches are attributed to poor patch management. This stat clearly attributes to the need for patch management to keep the organization safe by mitigating security vulnerabilities. Without the right patch management software, it becomes difficult for organizations to identify critical updates. Only implementing a patch management process is not enough for any organization to win the game.

Terraform With Multiple Environments: Key Benefits & Use Cases

Terraform is one of the most popular infrastructures as code (IaC) tools that allow users to define, configure, and deploy infrastructure resources in a safe, predictable, and repeatable manner. Using declarative configuration files, users can deploy resources across a variety of infrastructure providers, including public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as on-premises environments and third-party services.

How To Manage Multiple Environments With Terraform in 2023

Managing multiple environments with Terraform can be a complex and time-consuming task. An environment refers to a specific configuration or set of resources within a system, such as development, staging, or production environment. These environments often have different requirements and configurations, and managing them separately can be challenging.

Gremlin: Beyond Chaos: Reliability in the Age of Cloud Native

As dramatic changes in the market force enterprises to become more innovative and resilient, many are embracing cloud-native technology and chaos engineering. But this embrace may be shortsighted. To achieve the promises of cloud-native, enterprises must overcome common cloud- native challenges such as security, compliance, and reliability. Chaos engineering-the primary approach to improving reliability proactively-has failed to deliver. It must evolve beyond small-scale, siloed, and time-intensive practices to create realistic simulations that accurately reflect today's market and risk.

Educational institutions: To patch or not to patch?

The second decade of the 21st century witnessed an unprecedented paradigm shift in the educational sphere. With the onset of the pandemic, conventional ideas of an educational institution gave way to a far modernized and on-the-go approach. Joining class and listening to teachers’ lectures on Zoom or through Microsoft Teams is now the new norm.

How to use the Grafana Ansible collection to manage Grafana Agent across multiple Linux hosts

Anyone who is trying to set up monitoring for multiple machines knows how tough it can get to manage multiple Grafana Agents across them. To make things easier, we recently added the Grafana Agent role to the Grafana Ansible collection, which will help users manage the Agent across multiple Linux hosts. (Need to know how to get started with the Grafana Ansible collection for Grafana Cloud?