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By GroundWork
The GroundWork team has reviewed industry analysis of the recent Kaseya VSA incident, and while details are still being revealed, there are some useful take-aways we want to share. In particular, certain aspects of preparedness and indicators of active compromise can be monitored. We also want to talk a little bit about where GroundWork Monitor fits into security monitoring as a whole.
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By GroundWork
GroundWork Monitor Enterprise version 8.2.0 offers enhancements that build on the capabilities we have mentioned in past blogs. While all the dependencies, parent-child, and service and host dependencies are present as before, we have gone through our notification system and revamped it with an eye to making it easier to get the right alerts to the right people, with the right methods.
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By GroundWork
SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — GroundWork Open Source, Inc., a leading provider of powerful IT infrastructure monitoring software, today announced the general availability of GroundWork Monitor Enterprise version 8.2.0, its flagship all-inclusive monitoring product.
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By GroundWork
In our previous Blog, we introduced how we use Prometheus and the GroundWork Application Performance Monitoring (APM) connector to instrument a GoLang program to send metrics to GroundWork Monitor Enterprise. In this article, we continue with more Prometheus examples, but this time we demonstrate how to instrument a Java application with Spring Boot for easy monitoring.
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By GroundWork
We all want our monitoring systems to alert us when things go wrong. While it’s important to get alerts in the event of a failure or latency problem on something specific such as a SQL database, it’s actually just as important to not receive alerts from too many specific sources in the same alerting channel. If our monitoring system starts to fatigue us, we will ignore alerts until the phone calls and Emails from end users start letting us know a service is impaired or unavailable.
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By GroundWork
Part 2 of our Blog series on certificates focuses on a practical matter: using the free Let’s Encrypt certificates to secure servers that may not be publicly available, but still need better security than self-signed certs can give you. As we explained in our last blog on this subject, to use HTTPS encryption with certificates, you can choose from a number of options.
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By GroundWork
Lately, security has become top of mind across infrastructure monitoring customers. This is no surprise considering the widespread reports about supply-chain vulnerabilities and embedded compromises rampant in popular network monitoring software. In light of this, we want to underscore how seriously we have always taken our security processes, and how we cultivate a culture based on a foundation of sound security protocols.
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By GroundWork
In the last decade, it has become increasingly important to secure websites and applications using HTTPS instead of HTTP. A GroundWork Monitor installation is no exception, so in GroundWork 8, using HTTPS to access the system is the default setup, and you can add TLS certificates to it that you generate or purchase. See Adding Certificates to HTTPS for more information on doing so.
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By GroundWork
In case you haven’t already seen a description, “Sunburst” is malicious code which attaches itself to legitimate libraries, installs itself as a service, then reaches out to command-and-control remote network infrastructure to prepare a second stage of attack: to move throughout the environment and compromise or exfiltrate data. Pretty nasty stuff, and we should all be concerned.
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By GroundWork
GroundWork Monitor makes it simple to monitor the health of Oracle databases, whether the need is simple monitoring of availability or for capacity planning purposes. Oracle databases may be monitored either directly on the Oracle host or from a different host, using the GroundWork Distributed Monitoring Agent (GDMA). In both scenarios, SQL queries are used to provide the data from the database.
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By GroundWork
GroundWork Desk, powered by Invicta Software, is a help desk ticketing system integrated into GroundWork Monitor.
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By GroundWork
The GroundWork Home Dashboard is best used to view a summary of top problems in your infrastructure. It's displayed upon login and is the highest level summary of your monitored infrastructure, where managers and operators can access an at-a-glance view of problems and immediate issues.
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By GroundWork
An administrator can customize the GroundWork Monitor login page with a custom logo, cover image, and textual banner.
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By GroundWork
GroundWork Monitor 8 offers several ways to view and analyze your monitoring data. This short video provides an overview of GroundWork Dashboards.
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By GroundWork
Got 7 minutes? This video, just 7 minutes long, demonstrates a GroundWork Monitor 8 installation. For this demo we perform a new install for a standalone type installation on a Linux server with Ubuntu 18.04, and have decided on the hostname ip-10-4-50-199.gwos. The video starts with some system preparation, proceeds to install Docker, and then prepares and runs the GroundWork Installer. You will need to follow important instructions for all sections including Pre Install, Install, and Post Install.
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By GroundWork
A 20-minute live webinar about the best practices around business service monitoring (BSM in GroundWork Monitor. We’ll show you how to set up BSM with your IT monitoring to start tracking the availability of whole sections of your IT infrastructure.
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By GroundWork
A 30-minute webinar recording looking at how to use NeDi in GroundWork Monitor. We show you how to automate and view discovery results, including devices, nodes, and topology maps. We also walk through how to use NeDi's topology mapping, rogue device detection, and asset management features.
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By GroundWork
This webinar presented by GroundWork Open Source shows users how to gather and visualize data in a clear, flexible way using Grafana dashboards in GroundWork Monitor. We'll show you how to gather data from any source, including time series data. We'll also walk through how to set your own thresholds and alerts. Presented by GroundWork Open Source founder and vice-president of product strategy, Thomas Stocking.
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Groundwork Monitor® is a powerful IT monitoring software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based infrastructures. GroundWork can monitor your entire IT environment. If you use it, we can monitor it.
GroundWork Monitor® integrates availability, performance and event data together with one click access to related systems, providing unique multi-context views of infrastructure availability and performance. GroundWork Monitor® handles the real and the virtual, covering servers, networks, and storage resources as well as web servers, app servers, message managers, and database managers, and more.
GroundWork Open Source will simplify your IT monitoring by providing a single pane of glass for your entire IT environment:
- Unified Monitoring: We bring together performance and availability for your entire application stack and infrastructure. With flexible and customizable workflows, as well as powerful integrations, GroundWork Open Source is your central point in IT monitoring data collection and status alerting. We track application health, automatically deploys monitoring, and identifies network issues.
- Automation: GroundWork Open Source agents, with API-based monitoring, make real-time data gathering a reality. With automated network discovery and device registration, we make it easy to reduce manual intervention… and focus on what’s important to you. GroundWork Discovery, Cloud Hub, and GDMA help you keep track of your ever-changing infrastructure environment.
- Operations Analytics: Data overload? GroundWork Open Source can help. With effective log data management technology, data analysis graphing, and open API’s for your data warehousing, we are the monitoring solution for your IT data management suite.
GroundWork gives users the flexibility to leverage powerful open source software while preserving existing investments in legacy IT management tools. Our flexible approach helps organizations meet compliance standards, improve security, and stay within budget.