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Live from AWS re:Invent - Metrics and Logs Sitting in a Tree, Lowering your MTT*s

We all know by now that the exponential increase in cloud complexity has required a shift in traditional monitoring. These major changes lead to major challenges. Most environments are becoming more and more difficult to predict outages and determine root cause. There is a need for both real-time monitoring and alerting as well as a way to flexibly dig into your data to determine true root cause. Introducing the hottest new couple: metrics and logs. Come see how this duo can help speed up cloud adoption, future-proof your cloud monitoring, and lower MTTD and MTTR.

Live from AWS re:Invent - Time Travel with Splunk and AWS

Presenters: Jon LeBaugh and Robert Gustafson Time Travel is possible! Well, at least for data in Splunk. Learn how and why we use AWS Lambda, Splunk smart store, and Amazon S3 to move data into the future in the behind the scenes look at Splunk’s Boss of Ops and O11y capture the flag competition.

Goliath Technologies Launches Multi-Cloud Monitor

Philadelphia, PA – December 2, 2021 – Goliath Technologies, a leader in end-user experience monitoring and troubleshooting software for hybrid cloud environments, announced today the release of its groundbreaking Goliath Multi-Cloud Monitor offering.

Access a Streamlined DevX for Amazon EKS and Extend the Power of AWS to More Apps with VMware

We’ve all heard the proverb “necessity is the mother of invention.” But have you stopped to consider how very true that is for enterprise applications? Docker invented the lightweight container runtime to answer the needs of agile development teams building cloud native apps. The growing ubiquity of containers necessitated the invention of a way to manage them in large numbers across fleets of machines—what we now know as Kubernetes.

Serverless security hazards and trends to consider

Fourteen billion dollars – that’s the projected global market size for serverless, which is supposed to grow by about 26 percent annually in the next few years, according to the recent Global Serverless Architecture Market report. The fast pace of adoption of serverless is hardly surprising because the technology can save significant costs for companies. It can enable them to build and deploy software and digital products without providing and maintaining any virtual or physical servers.

AWS Savings Plan: All You Need to Know

Organizations using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud traditionally leveraged Reserved Instances (RI) to realize cost savings by committing to the use of a specific instance type and operating system within the AWS region. Nearly 2 years ago, AWS rolled out a new program called Savings Plans, which give companies a new way to reduce costs by making an advanced commitment of a one-year or three-year fixed term.

Best Practices for Cloud Logging

In our last episode, we covered how to best deploy and use Cloud Monitoring. This week, we answer the most important questions about Cloud Logging - what’s the best way to ingest logs? And how do you centralize logs and manage access? Watch this episode of Engineering for Reliability to learn some best practices for using Cloud Logging. Watch to learn how to keep your services reliable and your users happy.