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From Idea to Product: How VMware Pivotal Labs Helps Startups Grow

For some startups, it can be tough to transition from a great idea to a usable product—especially if that product involves software. The same often goes for teams within large enterprises trying to capitalize on new opportunities, or to modernize existing applications to meet the demands of modern users. They know what result they want, but they don’t always know what to build to achieve that outcome, much less how to build it.

Monitoring Your Data with the Mosaic Graph Type

InfluxDB provides several graph type visualizations to allow users to easily monitor their data. However, most of those graph types are only helpful if your data can be represented numerically. What if you want to track the health of your application, or visualize the status of your pods deployed in Kubernetes, over time? In both these cases, status is tracked over time using one of several discrete values, and can’t be plotted on an x/y chart.

Do you KYC?

Compliance has often been a checkbox exercise, primarily seen as a defensive strategy in preventing financial penalties and PR embarrassments. However, some organizations have taken a different approach. They’ve used compliance on the offensive - to give a competitive edge, turning “compliance teams” into “innovation teams”. These companies have improved processes and increased customer experience. They’ve installed an elevator instead of fixing the ladder.

Monitor your network traffic anywhere with NetFlow Analyzer's GUI on your iPhone

With the evolution of technology in recent times, the face of communication is ever-changing. In today’s environment, failing to adapt to these changes would mean failing to understand what the customer needs. Since every organization is migrating to smartphones and tablets, and employees are starting to depend more on these mobile devices, we at the NetFlow Analyzer team decided to up our game in terms of our mobile offering.

Early Teams Outage Detection & Analysis - August 19-20 2020

Unfortunately, in this time of increased dependency on Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other remote conferencing solutions while working from home, Microsoft 365 had a Teams Audio/Video Conferencing outage between August 19th and 20th of this year. Fortunately, for Exoprise customers, they were able to detect the outage, learned of it many hours before Microsoft reported the outage and were able to stay informed as to when it was fixed.

How we scale Raygun's architecture to handle more data

Due to the huge importance of sourcemaps in the workflow of our customers, sourcemaps are a crucial part of our Crash Reporting offering. We constantly strive to stay ahead of our customer demands as the amount of data we process continues to grow. We identified the sourcemapping process as an area ripe for performance improvement, so we took it apart and looked at exciting ways to build it from the ground-up using cutting-edge tech.

How to Monitor Your Kubernetes Cluster: Prometheus vs Datadog

So you’ve got a shiny new Kubernetes cluster up and it’s a dream. Deploying code is easy, scaling is a breeze, and you’ve never felt so efficient. However, despite claims that Kubernetes is self-healing, there’s still a nagging feeling in the back of your mind that wants to make sure your cluster is running smoothly. Just like any other tool, you need a monitoring solution to give you insight into Kubernetes.

Filter Company Allowed 3.4 Million Customers to Shop on Hacked Site

Filters Fast knowingly allowed approximately 3.4 Million customers to shop on their compromised website for over 5 months, in a year-long data breach. FiltersFast.com sells a variety of home filtration products. The company is based in North Carolina, USA, and according to SimilarWeb, the company averages approximately 574,190 website visitors each month.

Engineer Intelligent Alerting for Efficient Network Monitoring

Imagine a scenario where your Network Monitoring team has a group of very talented, organized, and focused technicians. Close to half of them are engaged in monitoring the system almost throughout the day. They can take care of the issues and problems as soon as they arise, and you are never facing any downtime. This is an ideal case scenario, right?

How SLOs Enable Fast, Reliable Application Delivery

Application delivery is getting harder each day with the rise in complexity, the demand for services to be always-available, and the increasing pressure on teams to innovate. Service level objectives, or SLOs, can help. In this blog, we’ll discuss how SLOs are the key to modern application delivery, how to manage and measure them, the importance of observability for your SLO solution, and how to begin the journey to reliable application delivery today.