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What's new in Sysdig - October 2020

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! This month, our big announcement was around CloudTrail and Fargate scanning support. CloudTrail support gives Sysdig Secure the ability to ingest CloudTrail events. These get fed into the runtime security engine, where rules can be created using the Falco rules language.

Learning Git: How to Cherry Pick

What is cherry pick in Git? We have added a new intermediate Git tutorial video to our popular Learning Git with GitKraken educational series, covering the cherry pick command and related benefits. View the latest addition to our Learn Git library—Learning Git: How to Cherry Pick—to discover more about how to use the cherry pick command, for which situations it can be used most effectively in your workflow, and tips for avoiding duplicate commits.

Introduction to Performance Monitoring Metrics

The reliability and stability of your services directly depend on how well you understand the state of your infrastructure and services. A great monitoring system will allow you to understand your infrastructure better. Monitoring the performance of your system allows you to not only fix current problems but also make changes to your infrastructure to avoid them in the future.

New Spot by NetApp documentation and API library

Today we’re happy to announce that Spot by NetApp documentation has been upgraded to improve both the user experience and the authoring environment. The upgraded site will speed up user access to information and make it easier to find what you need. In addition, the site is open sourced on GitHub so that users can easily suggest changes or updates on any page.

Bringing rich and real-time infrastructure monitoring to Netdata Cloud

The Netdata Agent is well-equipped to solve monitoring and troubleshooting challenges for single nodes. We love that the Agent is so valuable to our users, but Netdata Cloud is designed for infrastructure monitoring. That’s why we’re working so hard to offer even more capabilities and help users monitor and troubleshoot infrastructures of all sizes, entirely for free!

Monitoring RabbitMQ With Prometheus and Grafana

Prometheus and Grafana are powerful monitoring solutions. Combined together, you can build insightful monitoring metrics and display analysis on a beautiful dashboard. Among many external systems and applications, you can also monitor RabbitMQ with both toolkits. To integrate RabbitMQ into your Prometheus and Grafana, you can try MetricFire that provides hosted solutions for Prometheus and Grafana.

Containers vs. VMs: Which Should You Use?

Both containers and virtual machines are virtual environments that comprise a number of computing components and are independent in nature, thereby allowing developers to scale applications in isolated runtimes. Both of these concepts aim at providing independent sets of resources to individual computing environments to ensure quick and reliable application performance.

Using the new GitHub Container Registry with Codefresh

The GitHub Container Registry has just been announced by GitHub and is supported natively on Codefresh like any other Docker repository. Codefresh provides multiple options to connect to Docker Container Registries, one of which is GitHub Container Registries. Currently, GitHub plans to include the GitHub Container Registry within the pricing model of GitHub packages. In comparison, Docker Hub has added rate limits to free accounts.

Virtualization: Definition, Key Metrics to Monitor

With organizations worldwide moving towards digitization and remote working models, there is an increased need for more computing power and server resources. But not everyone can afford to host state-of-the-art, well-maintained servers in their premises. And that is why virtualization technology is so popular today. Virtualization technology enables organizations of all sizes to make use of IT services without the hardware resource constraint. Are you thinking about how virtualization can help you?