DevOps

Enterprises are increasingly defined by the applications they use and build to run their core business processes, including the customer experiences they provide.

We are announcing the preview of Azure Monitor for virtual machines guest health feature that monitors the health of your virtual machines and fires an alert when any parameter being monitored is outside the acceptable range.

With the new Azure integration with Datadog, organizations can now fully map their legacy and cloud-based systems, monitoring real-time data during every phase of the cloud transition, and ensure that migrated applications meet performance targets.

Azure Arc is a preview service that enables users to create and attach Kubernetes clusters both inside and outside of Azure. Azure Arc also enables the user to manage Windows and Linux machines outside of Azure the same way native Azure Virtual Machines are managed.

To help our SAP on Azure customers effectively monitor their SAP applications, today we are announcing the preview of Azure Monitor for SAP solutions, an Azure-native monitoring solution for customers running their SAP solutions on Azure.

As Mark mentioned when he authored the Advancing Reliability blog series, building and operating a global cloud infrastructure at the scale of Azure is a complex task with hundreds of ever-evolving service components, spanning more than 160 datacenters and across more than 60 regions.

Azure Load Balancer customers now have instant access to a preconfigured solution for health monitoring and configuration analysis enabling rapid fault localization and informed design decisions.

In part one of our two-part series, we will peek behind the Azure.com web page to show you how we think about running a major brand website on a global scale.

In part two of our two-part series we share our blueprint, so you can learn from our experience building a website on global scale and move forward with your own website transformation.

SAP SAPPHIRE NOW is an event we look forward to year after year, as it’s always a place to meet with our customers and learn how we can continue to build the best cloud platform to support their evolving needs.

Over the past few months, we have released many new capabilities targeting to improve native integration with Azure, enable easier onboarding at scale, support enterprise security and compliance needs, provide rich full stack distributed tracing, and much more.

Enterprises and teams are adopting DevOps technologies combined with people and processes to deliver high-quality code, with faster release cycles, and continuous delivery of value to achieve higher levels of satisfaction for their own customers.