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PuTTY from a monitoring perspective

PuTTY is a free program (MIT license) for x86 and AMD 64 architectures (now in experimental stages for ARM). It was developed in 1997!, by Simon Tatham, a British programmer. In this blog, we have been reviewing this useful program for several years, and even the great Pandora FMS team has confirmed it just now in 2020, in the list of network commands for Microsoft Windows® and GNU/Linux®. What if it deserves its own article? Read and judge for yourselves.

Managing IT at Scale: Distributed Monitoring for Large IT Environments

Growth for an enterprise is an exciting thing, but it often presents a unique challenge for IT professionals. There are common roadblocks that are encountered when trying to upscale an IT management environment. In this first blog of our Managing IT Infrastructure at Scale series, we discuss the benefits of distributed monitoring data for large IT environments.

Elastic 7.10 released, with a beta of searchable snapshots and the GA of Kibana Lens

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 7.10. This release brings a broad set of new capabilities to our Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are built on the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. 7.10 delivers significant new capabilities to market, transforming the way in which our customers and users can trade off cost, performance, and depth of data with searchable snapshots.

New Market Research Shows More than 80% of Global 2000 Companies Planning to Leverage the Cloud Intend to Maintain On-Premises Environments

San Jose, CA, November 11, 2020 – A vast majority (84%) of companies considered “digital leaders” by IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice, are turning to a hybrid cloud approach as they adopt public cloud services to improve IT service delivery.

How to Monitor Akamai Logs

Some of the largest and most prominent websites, worldwide, partner with Akamai to provide their customers with a premium web experience. What benefits could Akamai offer to you and your online product offerings? In this article, we will introduce you to Akamai and the services they provide. We’ll talk about why those services are essential and how they can help you provide a better online experience for your customers. We’ll also talk about how Akamai can protect you from cyberattacks.

Introducing the Cloudsmith Terraform Provider

In this blog, we will go through an example of how you can use the Cloudsmith Terraform Provider to provision resources in Cloudsmith, such as repositories and entitlement tokens. HashiCorp Terraform is an awesome Continuous Configuration Automation tool. It is used to provision, update and manage infrastructure resources such as Cloud instances, containers, physical machines and more. It is a firm favourite among developers, due to its brilliant community and mix of power and simplicity.

Monitoring Serverless Applications

Serverless. It’s likely you’ve already come across this term somewhere, but what exactly does it mean? Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing, doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others.

Splunk with the Power of Deep Learning Analytics and GPU Acceleration

Splunk is a machine data platform with advanced analytic capabilities that allows anyone to get valuable insights from their data. With unlimited use cases, you can leverage SPL to run any analytics you want. SPL has been supporting native machine learning capabilities for some time now. All you have to do is install the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) and you are good to start predicting !

Monitor DNS with Datadog

DNS is a critical component of your infrastructure, enabling your services to reach the endpoints they rely on and connecting your users to your web applications from anywhere in the world. In order to keep your DNS healthy and performant, you need complete visibility into both internal and external DNS resolution. Datadog is excited to announce new DNS monitoring features that help you troubleshoot DNS end-to-end, so you can ensure your applications’ performance and availability.