Microsoft will retire SCOM SQL monitoring packs in 2027, pushing customers toward Azure Monitor and cloud billing.

Cloud-native apps need a lot of monitoring. It’s not that they’re inherently unstable, but there are issues of concurrency and consistency in distributed application development that can give rise to ...

Microsoft will pause Azure Monitor legacy agent data uploads for 12 hours on January 26, 2026, as a final test before ...

Azure Monitor’s Change Analysis helps you troubleshoot problems quickly Your email has been sent Change management is key to running a mature IT organization. If problems arise, it’s important to know ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Paul Schnackenburg looks at the tool for monitoring all your Azure IaaS and PaaS services, plus your own applications and code, explaining what it can do, how to design and configure it and how to ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Deprecation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system Microsoft recently announced it will deprecate System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs (MPs) for SQL ...

Microsoft launched the Azure service just over eight years ago in a bid to play catchup with Amazon Web Services. And it has succeeded. Azure is now the No. 2 cloud service, behind AWS. Just how far ...