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How to Expand Data Collection for InfluxDB with CloudFormation Templates

In a previous post, I demonstrated how to call InfluxDB APIs from AWS Lambda, but the setup is fairly manual and the results are not portable. Ideally, we as a community can expand and share ways to collect and process time series data. To that end, I want to share a CloudFormation template. CloudFormation is AWS’ infrastructure as code service that lets you define almost any AWS component in a configuration file.

Machine learning in cybersecurity: Training supervised models to detect DGA activity

How annoying is it when you get a telemarketing call from a random phone number? Even if you block it, it won’t make a difference because the next one will be from a brand new number. Cyber attackers employ the same dirty tricks. Using domain generated algorithms (DGAs), malware creators change the source of their command and control infrastructure, evading detection and frustrating security analysts trying to block their activity.

Take a Quick Step to AIOps Success

Selecting the right AIOps platform is just the beginning. It’s crucial for the technology to be implemented quickly and efficiently, and to demonstrate value quickly. This is true for any major technology investment but it is particularly true of AIOps. Why? AIOps, and AI in general, has in recent years been the subject of extreme hype. Its promise seems boundless. At the same time, it is poorly understood by those outside — and even inside — of the IT community.

Your services are backed by SLAs. What's backing your SLAs?

You’ve made promises to your customers and end users, quantifying them in SLAs (service-level agreements) to instill confidence that those commitments will be honored. SLAs give users peace of mind. But what about your peace of mind? How can you guarantee your hybrid infrastructure and applications are continuously meeting or exceeding those SLAs? I’m going to explore how to ensure SLAs are met to maintain productivity and protect revenue.

Announcing private Terraform registry support in Cloudsmith

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: one of our core objectives in Cloudsmith is to ensure that we support pretty much every package format we possibly can. In other words, the product is universal. We want to make sure that however you built the software assets you use, Cloudsmth will provide a single, consistent way to store, manage, secure and distribute those assets. As part of that ongoing mission, today we announce support for Terraform Modules.

ServiceNow toacquire configurationdata management pioneer Sweagle

ServiceNow, the leading digital workflow company making work, work better for people, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Sweagle, a Belgium based configuration data management company. The transaction will extend ServiceNow’s DevOps and IT Operations Management (ITOM) capabilities, giving customers the ability to leverage machine learning to identify and help prevent potential misconfigurations from causing outages in produc

Countdown to CCPA enforceability

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a new act that strengthens and unifies data protection for consumers by giving California residents more control over their personal information. This regulates not only how it is collected and used, but also, how it is sold by companies. The CCPA went into effect January 1, and enforcement will begin July 1.

Webinar Highlights: How EnerKey Uses InfluxDB and Azure to Save Customers Millions

EnerKey’s CTO Martti Kontula recently presented on how EnerKey uses InfluxDB Enterprise and Microsoft Azure to power their IoT platform which enables their customers to save millions of euros! Their analytics platform uses sensor data to detect energy usage fluctuations triggered by weather and geospatial data. If you missed attending the live session, we have shared the recording and the slides for everyone to review and watch at your leisure.

Automating serverless workflows with Amazon EventBridge

Event-driven applications have become the foundation for developing modern digital applications. Application workflows are easier to automate with serverless frameworks, and Amazon EventBridge has revolutionized the way serverless applications are built. Since serverless is the new cool kid in the town, there has been a lot of infrastructure reengineering. This blog describes how alert-driven business logic can automate serverless workflows using Amazon EventBridge.

Migrating Grafana's template variables from AngularJS to React: A tale of failures and wins

As many of you already know, we created Grafana using AngularJS, but we have been migrating to React for about two years now. One of the big missing pieces in our migration puzzle was the templating system. This post starts in late 2019 when I first got my hands on this mysterious and complex area of the Grafana code base.