This week’s roundup highlights videos from Monitorama, making your own Grafana Plugins, NetApp’s fully open source monitoring stack and more.

In advance of the new simplified Stackdriver pricing that will go into effect on June 30, we want to make sure everyone gets a chance to try Stackdriver. That’s why we’ve decided to offer the full power of Stackdriver, including premium monitoring, logging and application performance management (APM), to all customers—new and existing—for free until the new pricing goes into effect. This offer will be available starting June 18.

Welcome to part two of a three-part series on trend analysis of log event data. Today, we will explore how to perform, using Graylog, a few of the types of trend analysis discussed previously.

As product managers, you’re ultimately the one held responsible for the entire product. So the last thing you want to assume is that someone else has got monitoring and alerts covered. In the first days of a release, all eyes are on the new product or latest feature. Just a few months later, when you introduce a brand new feature, the old one might break in the process. At times like these, you want to be ahead of your users, and not hear from your users that something isn’t working.

Oracle Database has long been a mainstay of the business world. Companies use it to handle data sets backing a wide variety of complex applications, including data warehouses or OLTP systems. Oracle Database includes enterprise-friendly features that emphasize scalability, advanced partitioning, and optimized availability of data across a large, potentially disparate infrastructure, as well as real-time backup and recovery tools.

Following our comprehensive introduction to SIEM systems, we looked at the available open source SIEM platforms. In this third article in our SIEM series, we review five of the most popular commercial offerings in this space. We evaluate them by looking at their intended audience and market segment, deployment model, SIEM features (threat intelligence, reporting, etc.), and each solution’s pros and cons.

A few customers mentioned they were looking at moving away from services such as Slack for their notifications and wanted to use Microsoft Teams instead, due to the integrated nature of the Office 365 platform. It sounded like a good thing for us to offer, so we now integrate with Office 365 and Microsoft Teams.

A little over 2 years ago we opensourced Sysdig Falco with the goal of providing a robust detection engine that the community could use to securely run containers in production. Since the launch we expanded the default ruleset and have had 750,000+ downloads of Sysdig Falco. Organizations like cloud.gov and Yahoo have used Falco to detect behavioral anomalies across their containerized infrastructure.

Thomas Stocking, co-founder and vice president of product strategy, recently wrote an article titled Entering a Golden Age of Data Monitoring, featured in APM Digest. The article talks about three factors obscuring the benefits of data monitoring (the infinite volume of data, its diversity, and inconsistency), benefits of monitoring data, and the future of monitoring data—all fueling a “golden age” of systems monitoring.