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October 2022

Tales from the Kernel Parameter Side

Users live in the sunlit world of what they believe to be reality. But, there is, unseen by most, an underworld. A place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit. The Kernel Parameter side (apologies to George Romero). Kernel parameters aren’t really that scary in actuality, but they can be a dark and cobweb-filled corner of the Linux world. Kernel parameters are the means by which we can pass parameters to the Linux (or Unix-like) kernel to control how that it behaves.

What's new in Sysdig - October 2022

October has, as usual, been a busy month, and Sysdig announced many new features. In Sysdig Monitor, we announced the release of four new Advisories and Yaml config support for Advisor. In Sysdig Secure, we released Severity filtering in Insights, Pod and Node activity view in Insight and four new Falco rules added to the Rules Library. Each of these are discussed in detail below.

Should you put all your trust in the tools?

My father worked with some of the very first computers ever imported to Italy. It was a time when a technician was a temple of excellence built on three pillars: on-the-field experience, a bag of technical manuals, and a fully-stocked toolbox. It was not uncommon that missing the right manual or the correct replacement part turned into a day-long trip from the customers’ site to headquarters and back.

Cost Advisor: Optimize and Rightsize your Kubernetes Costs

Kubernetes has broken down barriers as the cornerstone of cloud-native application infrastructure in recent years. In addition, cloud vendors offer flexibility, speedy operations, high availability, SLAs (service-level agreement) that guarantee your service availability, and a large catalog of embedded services. But as organizations mature in their Kubernetes journey, monitoring and optimizing costs is the next stage in their cloud-native transformation.

Sysdig Cost Advisor: Optimize your Kubernetes Costs

Every company running its applications on the cloud needs to estimate its operating costs, but running workloads on Kubernetes clusters across multiple providers often makes it hard. Without Kubernetes context in the cloud billing reports, users aren’t able to group costs or effectively assign the resources to the proper cost center. To address these gaps in Kubernetes cost monitoring, we are excited to announce Cost Advisor, a new feature in Sysdig Monitor that will give you visibility into Kubernetes costs and automatically help you identify areas to reduce them.

How to monitor Istio with Sysdig

In this previous article, we talked about how to monitor the Istio service mesh in Kubernetes with the out-of-the-box observability stack. This time, we will walk you through monitoring the Istio service mesh with Sysdig Monitor and how to troubleshoot issues. Istio service mesh provides special characteristics and functionalities for microservices running on Kubernetes.

Kubernetes ErrImagePull and ImagePullBackOff in detail

Pod statuses like ImagePullBackOff or ErrImagePull are common when working with containers. ErrImagePull is an error happening when the image specified for a container can’t be retrieved or pulled. ImagePullBackOff is the waiting grace period while the image pull is fixed. In this article, we will take a look at.