Is monitoring in the cloud special enough to warrant a list of tips and best practices? We think so. On the one hand, monitoring in the cloud might seem easy since there is a large number of solutions to choose from. On the other hand, though, the dynamic and distributed nature of the cloud can make the process much more challenging. In this article, we’ll cover ten tips and best practices that will help you ace your cloud monitoring game.
We’ve built a lot of amazing things into the open-source Netdata monitoring system. But, no matter how far we’ve come, we’ll always be proud of how little RAM it uses. Right now, Netdata stores metrics in your system’s RAM using a ridiculously efficient database. It only saves or loads historical metrics from disk when you restart it. With this system, Netdata can be both low-resource and exhaustive in its collection of real-time metrics.
We are excited to announce the general availability of Tigera Secure 2.5. With this release, security teams can now create and enforce security controls for Kubernetes using their existing firewall manager.
Site reliability engineers (SREs) are the glue between “Dev” and “Ops,” ensuring that software engineering expertise is applied to operations challenges. SREs naturally focus on making systems more reliable, efficient, and scalable. If you’re an SRE yourself, you’re already deeply familiar with these ideas.
The current business environment requires organizations to implement cybersecurity safeguards to avert disasters associated with breaches, loss of data and hefty fines. Simply implementing a cybersecurity plan isn’t enough, it’s also important to incorporate the right solutions and workflows to prevent a disaster. This post will discuss the current state of cybersecurity, highlighting what organizations should be mindful of to successfully defend against malicious parties.
The 2019 RightScale State of Cloud report shows that 45% of IT leaders voted for hybrid infrastructure as their top operational priority (public cloud comes second at 31%). With enterprises expected to use a combination of legacy and modern infrastructure for the foreseeable future, how do digital operations teams drive greater availability and proactive system performance for mission-critical services running on hybrid architectures?
As the worldwide spending on SaaS spending will make up more than half of all public cloud services spending through 2019, it is critical to have end-to-end visibility into threats across your SaaS and on-premise applications. Sumo Logic and Netskope are collaborating on a technical integration that will help joint customers use Sumo Logic to correlate, validate and investigate Netskope alerts into their overall security incident investigation process and understand SaaS application usage patterns.
Global Stock Market Analysis Provider ties-in Office 365 monitoring for their cross-continental teams through advanced NiCE monitoring solutions.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing is one of the most widely used of Amazon’s cloud services. In many AWS stacks, an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) will be involved in almost every single request that customers make to your application. Since they are critical to the health of your application, properly monitoring ELBs is a top priority for most teams. In this blog post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors Classic Elastic Load Balancers automatically and without configuration.
On [2019-07-29 Mon] we released new builds of our Enterprise Hub packages for 3.12.2 and 3.14.0. This release addresses CVE-2019-10164. PostgreSQL versions 10.x before 10.9 and versions 11.x before 11.4 are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. Any authenticated user can overflow a stack-based buffer by changing the user’s own password to a purpose-crafted value. This often suffices to execute arbitrary code as the PostgreSQL operating system account.
