Fluent Bit is a lightweight, multi-platform tool that can collect, parse, and forward log data from several different sources. Because Fluent Bit has a small memory footprint (~450 KB), it is an ideal solution for collecting logs in environments with limited resources, such as containerized services and embedded Linux systems (e.g., IoT devices).

Kubernetes is the defacto solution for production-ready container orchestration in 2019. Organizations of any size are able to take advantage of Kubernetes’ quick setup, feature-rich API, and growing community to deliver value quickly and at scale. Since Kubernetes is central to many infrastructures, properly monitoring your Kubernetes clusters is critical. In this post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors each piece of your Kubernetes cluster automatically.

LogicMonitor dashboards are powerful tools for viewing, troubleshooting, and drawing insights from your monitoring data in a variety of ways. Using LogicMonitor, you’ll likely interface with dashboards more than most other functionalities, so it’s important to optimize your workflow as much as possible. Dashboard tokens allow you to streamline dashboard creation and editing as well as limiting human error, especially at scale.

In late 2017, we announced enterprise service management (ESM) capabilities for our cloud model of ServiceDesk Plus. It helps organizations worldwide create unique service desk instances for each of their business functions like HR, travel, and facilities, and manage service delivery across their enterprise from a central platform. Now, we’ve expanded our ESM footprint to our on-premises model of ServiceDesk Plus.

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Rancher 2.3, the latest version of our flagship product. Rancher, already the industry’s most widely adopted Kubernetes management platform, adds major new features with v2.3.

Container technology is transforming the face of business and application development. 70% of on-premises workloads today are running on the Windows Server operating system and enterprise customers are looking to modernize these workloads and make use of containers. We have introduced support for Windows Containers in Windows Server 2016 and graduated support for Windows Server worker nodes in Kubernetes 1.14 clusters. With Windows Server 2019 we have expanded support in Kubernetes 1.16.

Configuring your Rails app via environment variables works well, but sometimes you want to be able to update your configuration on the fly. Here's a way to update your app's environment using SSM Parameter Store.