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AWS S3 Monitoring with Sumo Logic

In part 2 of our AWS S3 Monitoring series, we covered the basics of AWS S3 logging, why it’s important to log all the information in your cloud environment, and also the benefits of monitoring those logs. Now, AWS offers some great tools for monitoring and log querying, but if you and your team want to take it to the next level, Sumo Logic is there for your needs.

What Is an IIS Application Pool

People who are new to hosting web apps on IIS (Internet Information Services) sometimes struggle with the concept of application pools. What is an IIS application pool? What purpose does it serve? In this post, we’ll answer these questions—and more. We’ll begin by offering a brief introduction to IIS itself. If you’re already well acquainted with this piece of software, then the first section isn’t for you; feel free to skip it.

New Pro Plans For EU Individuals

We've just made our Pro Plans available to all EU individuals. Previously our paid services were only available in the EU to VAT registered businesses, now they are available to everyone. Read on to find out why... We've always aimed to provide Downtime Monkey worldwide and when we first set things up in 2017 we had a really useful consultation with Scottish Enterprise who helped us hugely by providing expert information on international tax rules.

Digital Experience Monitoring: An Overview

In today’s ever-changing digital landscape, it’s critical for companies to be in sync with their users and customers. From websites and web applications to internal mission-critical applications, businesses must ensure that their services are always available and running smoothly. If not, users are likely to easily abandon your website, directly affecting revenue.

Replicating and Restoring LogDNA Account Configurations

As an engineer who has set up logging for more than one deployment or environment, you know that you usually have one logging account per deployment. You’ve got plenty of pre-created queries, graphs, and alerts set up specific for your company’s use case, all of which are vital to you knowing the health of your infrastructure. Now imagine being responsible for creating and maintaining logging accounts across 10+ deployments.

Announcing the Sensu archives

Earlier this year, we reached an important early milestone for the next-generation Sensu Go platform with the General Availability of commercial support for Sensu Go. A few weeks later, we announced that Sensu Core 1.x – the original Sensu open source project – would reach end of life (EOL) on December 31, 2019, and that commercial support for Sensu Enterprise (latest version 3.x) would reach EOL on March 31, 2020.

Apple in 2018, now Tesla-who's next in the line of internal data leaks?

Recent allegations of an ex-Tesla employee syncing the Autopilot source code to his personal iCloud account is yet another classic case of how poor data security is, even in some of the most technologically advanced organizations. The Tesla leak isn’t even the first time that a data breach of such immense magnitude pertaining to self-driving technologies has occurred; in July 2018, an Apple employee was caught using AirDrop to transfer 40GB of confidential data to a personal PC.

Daily Ignite Briefing: Highlights from day #3

Our third day was a bit of a different one. We started off the morning with a SCOM roundtable session that featured presentations from Microsoft, NiCE, Cookdown and SquaredUp. Later in the afternoon, our CEO and Founder Richard delivered a talk on “Mastering Azure Monitor”, and then as usual we did a couple customer briefings, a few customer case studies, and loads and loads of demos – also gave out loads of LEGO!

Effective messaging is the key to successful remote productivity

“I love daily stand-ups almost as much as I love Agile” is something usually said sarcastically, with an eye roll. But for all the resistance that standups receive (at least among engineers), they do their job surprisingly well. In terms of allowing everyone to share their current progress, roadblocks, and questions, it’s hard to beat a daily meeting where no one is at their computer.

Shift Left - Context Menu Now Easier to Find

The feedback on the new SolarWinds® Papertrail™ event viewer has been overwhelmingly positive. We’ve heard that the new event viewer is “awesome,” “sleek” and “easy to use.” We also heard, from some long-time Papertrail fans, that moving the context menu to the right side of the log lines might not have been the best choice.