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DNS Incidents Like Cloudflare's Could Turn your Status Page Useless; Here is How to Prevent It

How do I prevent DNS related Issues from affecting my status page? This is a very common question we receive from customers at Statuspal. That is what we decided to write an article with suggestions that answer this question.

Lights, Camera, Action: Lumigo Joins AWSonAir for a Big Announcement

It’s no secret that AWS has an extensive catalog of services which enable organizations to rapidly scale infrastructure. In this fast paced and self scaling cloud native world, observability across all these services has never been more critical. As a long time AWS Technology Partner, it’s always great to speak to our friends at AWS, and most recently, Lumigo CEO Erez Berkner joined AWS on Air to talk about end-to-end observability of the modern cloud application.

Ingesting HTTP Access Logs from AppService

Debugging application performance in Azure AppService is something that’s quite difficult using Azure’s built-in services (like Application Insights). Among some of the issues are visualizations, and the time it takes to be able to query data. In this post, we’ll walk through the steps to ingest HTTP Access Logs from Azure AppService into Honeycomb to provide for near real-time analysis Access Logs.

How the Eco Value Report gives your time back

You’re a Cloud Strategist and your time is in demand. Your whole team is occupied meeting timelines and addressing concerns related to your business, which is why it made sense to sign up for Spot by Netapp’s Eco product in the first place. Eco’s ability to provide dedicated, cloud savings without taking your valuable time is just what the doctor ordered. In fact, Eco does such a good job, often the only time you think about it is when it is time to pay the bill.

Monitor SQL Server and Azure managed databases with Datadog DBM

Datadog Database Monitoring (DBM) provides comprehensive visibility into SQL queries running on your databases. Using DBM, you can troubleshoot database performance issues by drilling into frequently used queries and analyzing historical trends in your queries’ metrics and execution plans. Whether you operate self-hosted SQL Server instances or leverage Azure’s fully managed services, DBM can provide deep visibility into the databases your application depends on.

Cloudflare outage? The Domino Effect!

This day started a bit abruptly, with several services experiencing outages due to a Cloudflare outage. It started approximately at 06:34 AM UTC. Check the official announcement. What came next was a domino effect through many popular services over the internet. Major services like Gitlab, Notion, Hubspot, Digital Ocean, Monday, Recurly, and a lot more. We registered incidents from 230 services between the outage was published until it was marked as resolved.

How MoovingON Improved GreenRoad's Platform Reliability

When GreenRoad experienced a period of intense growth and expansion within a short time, the organization knew that it would need to upgrade its NOC support services to meet the standards of its new prominent and international clients. In addition, as their platforms rely on cloud support, finding a provider that could offer high availability and fast and efficient service was critical, and MoovingON seemed the perfect candidate.

State of Observability 2022: Modernization Cannot Succeed without Observability

As organizations look to become cloud-first to meet the growing demands of the shifts in the ways we do business, we have seen the pace of digital transformation accelerate. As a result, organizations have evolved their cloud strategies to multi-cloud environments and are adopting more containers, microservices, and cloud native technologies. This is creating increasingly distributed systems, making it harder to gain a comprehensive view into how they’re performing.

Cribl.Cloud: Are You Ready to Fly Solo?

Many years ago, I attained my private pilot’s license. This entailed completing a very structured program, similar to how most companies introduce a product to a new user. Let’s be honest, there is a really good reason for this – to avoid the crash and burn. With flight training, it’s literal, while with products it’s a bit more figurative (except when you YOLO something into production–that can cause a crash and burn–and leave for a bad first impression).

How To Identify and Stop a Phishing Attack

Phishing is a real problem. One that can wreak havoc on your digital and financial life. Here, we’ll look at different ways we can identify a phishing scam and stop it in its tracks. Phishing is the practice of sending emails (or other messages) with the intent to make the recipient believe it’s from a certain company or individual.