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Glitch List: May 2020

Hello, and welcome back (to some of you, at least) from quarantine. Although things may look as though they’ve reached a new normal, our present equilibrium still includes a number of glitches. In May, in addition to the usual outages due to overloaded servers, we also have outages due to failures of partner monitoring, plus – an Anodot first – a pizza arbitrage issue. Is it true that you can make money by selling pizzas to yourself?

Common causes of a website's downtime. Why does a website go down?

May 31, 2020, WebGazer Team We are living in a highly competitive world. One where many businesses leverage on the internet to get ahead of their competitors. Having a beautifully constructed website with rich SEO content is one way to drive traffic to your site and business. But just having a website is not enough. As a matter of fact, a website could do more harm to your business than good.

ITSM can Make Remote Working More Efficient Than You Thought: Here's How

As humans, it is common to find two tendencies when we work: Remote working began as a significant challenge. Many teams saw falling productivity and morale. Some people even declared it the end of ‘fixed working hours’ as we know it. As all of us started getting used to the concept, we started seeing solutions to alleviate, if not entirely eradicate the problems.

How to Overcome the Drawbacks of SIEM Tools

These days, “SIEM” (Security Information and Event Management) is all over the place. SIEM tools work by collecting data from multiple systems and noticing patterns in the data. This adds immediate value to the business by providing insights, security recommendations, and actionable intelligence. Despite being helpful tools for many companies, SIEM tools do have their drawbacks. This article will describe the four main ones and offer suggestions for how they might be overcome.

Flexibly route traffic to designated Kubernetes infrastructure nodes

Ocean by Spot is a Kubernetes data plane service that provides a serverless infrastructure engine for running containers. Ocean is designed to work in such a way that pods and workloads can take advantage of the underlying capabilities of cloud infrastructure such as compute, networking and storage across different pricing models, lifecycles, performance and availability levels, without having to know anything about it.

Introducing cf-secret - Secret encryption in CFEngine

Contributor and CFEngine Champion, Jon Henrik Bjørnstad, developed a tool for encrypting files using CFEngine host keys, called cf-keycrypt. Thank you to Jon Henrik and all of our contributors for helping improve the CFEngine project. Our developer, Vratislav Podzimek, recently took some time to review the cf-keycrypt code, and made many improvements and fixes.

Best practices for monitoring GCP audit logs

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services for deploying, managing, and monitoring applications. A critical part of deploying reliable applications is securing your infrastructure. Google Cloud Audit Logs record the who, where, and when for activity within your environment, providing a breadcrumb trail that administrators can use to monitor access and detect potential threats across your resources (e.g., storage buckets, databases, service accounts, virtual machines).

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Migrating from the Codefresh registry to Google Container Registry

On July 15th the Codefresh registry that is part of all Codefresh accounts will be removed from service. The removal is part of a big round of improvements to our native integration with Docker registries. We have invested significant efforts in using Codefresh as a unified platform for Docker images and the way they are used inside CI/CD pipelines. More details on the migration actions for the Codefresh registry can be found in our timeline announcement.

GrafanaCONline Day 10 recap: what's new in Grafana Cloud Graphite and Metrictank

Welcome to the third and final week of GrafanaCONline! We hope you’re able to check out our last day of online sessions today. If you didn’t get a chance to watch yesterday’s sessions (or want to watch them again), here’s what you missed on day 10 of the conference.