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Azure – Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent supports VM Insights in Azure Government Cloud
Azure Government Cloud customers can now enable VM Insights via the new Azure Monitor Agent, to monitor the client workload on the VMs or VMSS. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights configurable Real User Monitoring for Java
The new “browserSdkLoader” configuration in the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Java Distro makes it easier than ever to enable Real User Monitoring (RUM) in Application Insights. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Monitor Agent Health experience
The Azure Monitor Agent Health experience is now available in preview. Identify data collection problems across your organization before they start impacting your business. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Monitor Logs improved table-level RBAC
Today we announce an improvement to the table-level RBAC used to assign permissions to specific tables Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Managed private endpoint for Azure Managed Grafana
Managed private endpoint in Azure Managed Grafana enables a customer to connect their Grafana workspace privately to supported Azure data sources. It is simple to configure and manage. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Monitor Pod Sandboxing support in Container insights
Container Insights supports monitoring pod sandboxed containers. Pod Sandboxing safeguards against “Container Breakout” scenarios such as a malicious or legitimate user escaping container isolation to access host machine resources. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Ingest events from Azure Event Hubs to Azure Monitor Logs
You can now ingest data directly from an event hub into a Log Analytics workspace Read More for the details.

GCP – Modernizing telecommunications and keeping the UK connected
When Virgin Media and O2 joined forces in June 2021, we made it our mission to modernize the country’s connectivity. By the end of that year, we had completed upgrading our fixed broadband network with download speeds of at least one gigabit per second, supporting the UK government’s drive to take gigabit broadband nationwide by […]

GCP – Securing software supply chain with Endor Labs Dependency Management on Google Cloud
Open-source software (OSS) is a type of software that anyone can use, modify and distribute. Development teams can gain tremendous benefits from leveraging the OSS ecosystem, as long as organizations invest in the tooling to address the security, scalability, and sustainability challenges that come with it. Without this tooling, organizations and their software delivery pipelines […]
GCP – Banco BV modernizes its banking apps with GKE and Anthos
Editor’s note: In today’s guest post we hear from Banco BV about their application modernization journey with Anthos and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Banco BV migrated its banking apps from the OpenShift platform in the data center to GKE in Google Cloud, and uses Anthos Service Mesh and Config Sync to manage its GKE clusters […]