Our bread and butter is checking for uptime, and we always recommend users begin their monitoring with the HTTP(S) check. We call it a basic check type, but its functionality is boosted when you start exploring optional parameters. The Uptime.com HTTP(S) check can do a lot more than check for server status 200 OK.
Cologne, Germany – iLert GmbH, a SaaS company for alerting, on-call management, and uptime monitoring, announced today that it has achieved the Amazon RDS Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that iLert has demonstrated successful integration with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).
Last week Elastic.co started locking down its Beats OSS shippers such that they will not be able to send data to Elasticsearch 7.10 or earlier open source distros, or Non-Elastic distros of Elasticsearch. If you weren’t watching closely this might have slipped under your radar. Embedded within the Beats 7.13 minor release that was published over the weekend, a release note advised of a breaking change in which “Beats may not be sending data to some distributions of Elasticsearch”.
Yesterday, my morning started much like most Tuesday mornings do for me... my kids (6 and 4) were up way too early again at around 6am! Both were demanding I play with them before they head to school. I did my usual and said "give me five minutes" as I tried to wake up after another night of going to sleep after midnight... one day I should really learn to go to bed earlier, now that I have kids! But this morning was different. I started to wake from my dazed state and reached for my phone.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, BCD Travel manages global business travel. It operates in 109 countries with annual revenues totaling $25 billion and employs nearly 11,000 people worldwide. To meet the current and future needs of a growing virtual workforce, the Network Operations Center (NOC) group at BCD Travel had to adapt and scale its IT infrastructure operations. Additional capabilities were needed to monitor Microsoft 365, Azure, Active Directory, AWS, Teams, and other critical SaaS services.
The new Dashbird app is bringing your data together for a faster, more secure, and smoother observability experience with team collaboration in mind. The enhanced version of the Dashbird app is making your account more secure and your app navigation and data exploration faster, more intuitive, and all-around enjoyable. Additionally, you can now enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for your Dashbird account. Check it out now!
Another GrafanaCON(line), another major release! And as I shared in the opening keynote today, Grafana 8.0 is the biggest, baddest release yet!
Today, we’re excited to announce a new completely free pricing tier for observIQ: the 3-day free plan. With the observIQ free plan, you can ingest and index up to 3 gigabytes of logs per day with a 3 day rolling retention period.
