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PerfOps Changelog: CLI update, Cloud Data, IP Ranges and ASNs

We are happy to announce the beta release of our cloud performance and uptime data. PerfOps now collects data for all popular cloud providers such as AWS, Google, DigitalOcean, Vultr and soon even more. You can now decide which region makes more sense for you not just on a general feeling and pricing but on concrete data from all over the world.

Longhorn Accepted into CNCF

Today I am very excited to announce that Rancher Labs’ Project Longhorn has been accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a sandbox project. Many Kubernetes users still find it challenging to run stateful workloads and manage persistent storage. Longhorn aims to help you manage stateful workloads in Kubernetes by providing a solution for persistent storage that you can easily deploy, use, and manage.

Sysdig 2019 Container Usage Report: New Kubernetes and security insights

We’re excited today to release the Sysdig 2019 Container Usage Report. Continued momentum for Kubernetes and greater adoption of cloud-native architectures are changing not just usage patterns, but processes and organizational structures as well. One of the surprising insights this year is the 2X increase in the number of containers that live for less than five minutes. As services grow more dynamic, cloud teams are recognizing the need to integrate security into their DevOps processes.

Image scanning for Azure Pipelines

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to setup image scanning for Azure Pipelines using Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform. Azure DevOps gives teams tools like version control, reporting, project management, automated builds, lab management, testing, and release management. Azure Pipelines automates the execution of CI/CD tasks, like building the container images when a commit is pushed to your git repository or performing vulnerability scanning on the container image.

Monitoring Amazon RDS with Blue Matador

Amazon RDS allows you to easily run databases in AWS without actually having to manage database servers. Since your databases are critical to the health of your application, properly monitoring RDS is a top priority for most teams. In this blog post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors RDS automatically and without configuration.

How to Set Up This Next-Level Personal Home Dashboard in Your Kitchen

We saw Cameron’s impressive dashboard in a Grafana Experts Facebook group and asked him to break it down for us. When friends and visitors see my personal home dashboard in my kitchen, they’re normally of the opinion that it’s “really neat” and looks “impressive.” Often that’s what they take away from it. It’s “cool”… and as much as that may be true, that is not its purpose.

Troubleshoot Citrix & VMware Horizon Deployments

IT spends millions of dollars and years of worker-time so their workforces can work anywhere, anytime, on any device, securely. And a huge chunk of that investment is in VDI from Citrix or VMware Horizon, both on-prem and in the cloud. As a result, IT, you’ve delighted your end-users with a super high-performing, super reliable end-user experience, right?

Monitoring Azure MariaDB Instances with LogicMonitor

Released in 2009, MariaDB is a popular open-source fork of the MySQL relational database management system. MariaDB is intended as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so data and table definitions, protocols, structures, and connectors require little to no modification in order to migrate. MariaDB also contains several enhancements, including faster indexes and cache, increased connection thread pools, and support for more storage engines.