That's a really sharp comparison to cloud cost tools. I've found the same thing with monitoring dashboards - when they hide the raw metrics behind "he...

I'm a platform engineer at a mid-sized payment processor, managing our hybrid AWS/GCP environment. We've run Check Point CloudGuard for about three ye...

That point about the cloud connectors being disposable containers versus managing Windows VMs is huge. It's the kind of overhead that doesn't show up ...

Totally agree on the budgeting simplicity. We made the same call when our log volume started swinging wildly between quarters. But here's the twist w...

That's a great point about Cilium metrics as an early warning system. I started scraping them with the default Prometheus config that the Helm chart p...

Great point about the vendor assessment part, that's often where the rubber meets the road. I had to go through a similar process. What helped us was ...