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EventSentry v4.0 - Introducing ADMonitor

Since Active Directory is the foundation of all Windows networks, monitoring Active Directory needs to be part of any comprehensive security strategy. Up to version 3.5, EventSentry utilized Windows auditing and the security event log to provide reports on: User Account Changes, Group Changes and Computer Account Changes.

An Introduction to Big Data Concepts

Gigantic amounts of data are being generated at high speeds by a variety of sources such as mobile devices, social media, machine logs, and multiple sensors surrounding us. All around the world, we produce vast amount of data and the volume of generated data is growing exponentially at a unprecedented rate. The pace of data generation is even being accelerated by the growth of new technologies and paradigms such as Internet of Things (IoT).

Everything You Need to Know About the OSS Licensing War, Part 2.

Where we left off: AWS had taken the Elasticsearch software and launched their own cloud offering in 2015, and Elastic N.V. had doubled down on an “open core strategy.” Once AWS decides to offer a project like Elasticsearch, it immediately becomes a truly formidable competitor to anyone trying to do the same, even the company behind the software itself. AWS has huge scale, operational expertise, and various network effects that really compound.

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A New Approach to Traffic Balancing: PerfOps Announces Smart Internet Routing

Network traffic expert PerfOps just announced FlexBalancer, an innovative approach to load balancing. FlexBalancer is a cloud-based solution that dynamically routes traffic in real time. It does so by leveraging CDN and Cloud performance data and combines it with user-defined parameters.

Providing Visibility and Security for AWS App Mesh

Microservice architectures running on containers have made applications easier to scale and faster to develop. As a result, enterprises are able to innovate faster and accelerate time-to-market for new features. To make management of microservices even more efficient and easier to run, service mesh solutions like Istio, Envoy, and Linkerd – and now AWS App Mesh – have become the next core building blocks of microservices infrastructure built on containers.

Tinder & Grafana: A Love Story in Metrics and Monitoring

Tinder is the world’s most popular dating app, with more than 26 million matches made each day. But two years ago, when it was time for the L.A.-based company to find and implement a perfect metrics monitoring partner, the process proved to be more slow-burn love affair versus whirlwind romance.

Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters on GKE (Google Container Engine)

The Kubernetes ecosystem contains a number of logging and monitoring solutions. These tools address monitoring and logging at different layers in the Kubernetes Engine stack. This document describes some of these tools, what layer of the stack they address, as well as best practices for implementation including an example from the field, a quick start, and a demo project.