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Monitoring Amazon Classic Elastic Load Balancers with Blue Matador

AWS Elastic Load Balancing is one of the most widely used of Amazon’s cloud services. In many AWS stacks, an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) will be involved in almost every single request that customers make to your application. Since they are critical to the health of your application, properly monitoring ELBs is a top priority for most teams. In this blog post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors Classic Elastic Load Balancers automatically and without configuration.

CFEngine 3.12.2-3, 3.14.0-2 released (mitigating CVE-2019-10164)

On [2019-07-29 Mon] we released new builds of our Enterprise Hub packages for 3.12.2 and 3.14.0. This release addresses CVE-2019-10164. PostgreSQL versions 10.x before 10.9 and versions 11.x before 11.4 are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. Any authenticated user can overflow a stack-based buffer by changing the user’s own password to a purpose-crafted value. This often suffices to execute arbitrary code as the PostgreSQL operating system account.

Introducing the new Sysdig Secure policy editor

Among many other features Sysdig Secure version 2.4 introduces a new and improved runtime policy editor, along with a comprehensive library combining out-of-the-box run-time policies from our threat research teams, container-specific compliance standards, Kubernetes security and Falco opensource community rules.

Sysdig Secure 2.4 introduces runtime profiling for anomaly detection + new policy editor for enhanced security.

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Sysdig Secure 2.4! With this release, Sysdig adds runtime profiling to enhance anomaly detection and introduces brand new interfaces that improve runtime security policy creation and vulnerability reporting. These features are focused on upgrading the experience of creating your security policy to detect security threats and attacks to your infrastructure and apps.

Kubernetes Master Class - DevOps Alerting and Visualization with Prometheus and Grafana

In this presentation by Rancher Director of Community Jason van Brackel, you will learn how to setup alerts with Rancher and Prometheus Alert Manager to find problems before there's an outage. You'll also learn to visualize metrics for Kubernetes and for your applications so you can gather new insights to your users' usage patterns and your applications' run-time behaviors.

What's New in Elastic Stack 7.3

As if the temperature this summer was not high enough, this new major release of the Elastic Stack promises turns it up a notch with some hot new features. Bundling new ETL capabilities in Elasticsearch, a bunch of improvements in Kibana and a lot of new integration goodness in Filebeat and Metricbeat, Elastic Stack 7.3 is worth 5 minutes of your time to stay up to date.