Collecting data is crucial for observability and security, and ensuring it is quickly searchable with low-latency results is essential for managing and protecting applications and infrastructure effectively. However, storing all of this data incurs ongoing storage costs, creating a key opportunity for cost savings. In Elastic Cloud, you can optimize storage expenses by setting … [Read more...] about Optimize the cost of logs storage in Elastic Cloud using hot and frozen data tiers
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Redefining Observability Pricing to Remove the Universal Obstacle of Cost
Observability is critical to innovation, but for many organizations, soaring costs make it impossible to achieve. Logz.io is here to change that. TL;DR Traditional pricing models force customers to guess their data needs, leading to costly overages. Logz.io’s new consumption-based pricing eliminates the guesswork—pay only for what you ingest and scale as … [Read more...] about Redefining Observability Pricing to Remove the Universal Obstacle of Cost
Optimizing cloud resources and cost with APM metadata in Elastic Observability
From left to right, we want to focus on the very first chart. We have the bars representing the CPU as average in green and 95th percentile in blue on top. It goes from 0 to 100% and is normalized, meaning that even with 8 CPU cores, it will still read 100% usage and not 800%. The line graph represents the transaction duration, the average being in red, and the 95th percentile … [Read more...] about Optimizing cloud resources and cost with APM metadata in Elastic Observability
FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost
With the current financial climate, cost reduction is top of mind for everyone. IT is one of the biggest cost centers in organizations, and understanding what drives those costs is critical. Many simply don’t understand the cost of their Kubernetes workloads, or even have observability into basic units of cost. This is where FinOps comes into play, and organizations are … [Read more...] about FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost
The Cost of Doing the ELK Stack on Your Own
So, you’ve decided to go with ELK to centralize, manage, and analyze your logs.Wise decision.The ELK Stack is now the world’s most popular log management platform, with millions of downloads per month. The platform’s open source foundation, scalability, speed, and high availability, as well as the huge and ever-growing community of users, are all excellent reasons for this … [Read more...] about The Cost of Doing the ELK Stack on Your Own
The iPad Air Costs Apple Less to Make Than Previous iPads
IHS has performed its teardown analysis of the iPad Air and found that it costs less to make that previous iPads. The firm said that the iPad Air costs between $274 and $361 to build depending on the model. Apple sells the device for $499 to $929. Andrew Rassweiler, the analyst who oversees the teardown work at IHS’s lab in Los Angeles, said “What I expected to see inside … [Read more...] about The iPad Air Costs Apple Less to Make Than Previous iPads