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PPS Spike Every 110 Seconds on AWS EC2

I don’t know what to say about this post… I found something weird while investigating PPS on EC2. It seems to correlate with CPU credits on t1/t2/t3 instances, but is consistently inconsistent in presentation. It only shows up when you track the stats yourself, because Cloudwatch doesn’t show the 1-second granularity needed to see these numbers.

Five cybersecurity best practices to follow in 2019

Research by Cybersecurity Ventures predicts ransomware alone will cost businesses around the world more than $11.5 billion in 2019. What’s worse, this same study also predicts businesses will experience a cyberattack every 14 seconds by 2019, up from once every 40 seconds in 2016. So what can you do to mitigate the increasing threat of cyberattacks? Here are five IT security best practices that can help.

Grafana 5.3.3 and 4.6.5 released with important security fix

Today we are releasing Grafana 5.3.3 and 4.6.5. These patch releases include an important security fix for all Grafana installations between 4.1.0 and 5.3.2. We also release 5.3.4 at the same time containing some fixes and improvements that we have been holding off for a while to release 5.3.3.

Paul Dix [InfluxData] | View from the CTO | InfluxDays 2018

Paul will outline his vision around the platform and give the latest updates on Flux (a new Data Scripting language), the decoupling of query and storage, the impact of hybrid cloud environments on architecture, cardinality, and discuss the technical directions of the platform. This talk will walk through the vision and architecture with demonstrations of working prototypes of the projects.

Falco 0.13.0 Released: Kubernetes Audit Events Support

We recently released Falco 0.13.0, which is probably the most exciting release since Falco’s 0.1.0 release almost two and a half years ago. With 0.13.0, we’re adding support for a second stream of events — Kubernetes Audit Events. This release also lays the groundwork for additional event sources to be easily added.