5 VMware Hacks: January Community Round-up
Is service catalog the modern CMDB?
It takes a village to build a large-scale digital service. Like a machine with a million moving parts, each is built and operated by dozens (sometimes hundreds) of individual teams, typically operating independently with their own strategy and tooling. Infrastructure complexity is a problem of the past, application complexity is the problem of the futureAWS…
SquaredUp, re:Invented
SquaredUp turned ten years old this month, a sure sign of adolescence for a budding tech startup. As with any important milestone, it’s cause for both celebration and reflection: who we are, where we come from, where we’re going. And that’s what makes the timing of our tenth birthday so profound – it’s right at…
3 reasons why reporting SLOs at scale is hard
Since Google SRE popularised the use of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), there has been a lot of talk about what they are, why they are used, and how they are implemented. Adopting SLOs can provide much-needed visibility of service performance, but the larger your organization, the more challenges you might run into. What are the unique challenges faced by SREs in larger organizations when measuring SLOs, and how can…
Incident response: Is MTTI the metric that matters most?
Outages hurt. Ask Mark Zuckerberg. At the beginning of October billions of users were unable to access Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram for several hours. Ouch. Of course, complete outages like Facebook’s are uncommon (although as we were writing this blog, we heard that hundreds of Tesla owners were locked out of their cars due to an outage). Complete outages can…
5 SQL Hacks: November Community Round-up
Catch up on the latest SquaredUp Community news, including topics like PowerShell and Azure Monitor.
Kusto: Table Joins and the Let Statement
Learn how to use Kusto (KQL) table joins and let statements in Azure Log Analytics.
Kusto: Custom Logs in Log Analytics
Part of our Kusto series, this is a thorough guide on how to use custom logs in Azure Log Analytics.
One agent to rule them all: Azure Monitor Agent
Yet another Azure agent? This time, Microsoft has combined all the Azure agents into one.
Azure Lighthouse jumpstart
See Microsoft MVP Martin Ehrnst’s top tips on using Azure Lighthouse.
Tips from the field: Automated tagging of Azure resources
See the Logic App we use to automatically tag our Azure resources (creator, creation date, expiration date) to reduce costs.
Azure Monitor Agents: their different functions
What are different Azure Monitor Agents? Which is best fit for your purpose?