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Introducing Mattermost Academy: Our Free Online Training Program

At Mattermost, we built an intuitive workplace messaging platform that all kinds of teams can use productively right away, regardless of technical prowess. That said, we understand that learning new platforms isn’t always the easiest thing in the world. Some Mattermost users will have longer learning curves than others, and that’s perfectly okay. We all march at different speeds.

Chef Server Logging with the ELK Stack - Part 1

How many recipes do you have in your cookbook? This isn’t off topic, for today I’ll be exploring the ins and outs of Chef logging to help you maintain the state of your kitchen. (Last of the bad puns.) For those unfamiliar, Chef is a configuration management and platform automation tool that sits in the same space as Puppet (which we wrote about previously).

How to collect, customize, and analyze PHP logs

PHP logs are not just about errors. You can use logs to track the performance of API calls and function calls, or to count the occurrence of significant events in your applications (e.g., logins, signups, and downloads). Whether you’re operating a microservices architecture or a monolith, implementing a comprehensive PHP logging strategy will allow you to track critical changes in your applications and optimize their performance.

Meaningful Parameter Names in SNMP Events

Enterprise Alert offers the possibility to directly receive SNMP traps and generate alarms from them. The SNMP traps contain a number of parameters that are identified by OIDs. These OIDs are quite cryptic and not very meaningful. So-called MIB files are used to assign meaningful names to the OIDs. The following describes how you can use a script to import such MIB files to display meaningful names instead of OIDs in SNMP events. You can also use these names in alert policies.

We're an April 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for SIEM-thanks to you!

We’re happy to announce that ManageEngine is an April 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). While Gartner analysts recognized ManageEngine in its Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management * for three consecutive years, this Customers’ Choice distinction makes us even more proud because we see it as proof that our customers are happy with the technology we provide.

Grafana 5.4.4 and 6.1.6 released with important security fix

Today we are releasing Grafana 5.4.4 and 6.1.5. These patch releases include an important security fix for all Grafana installations between 5.4.0 and 6.1.6. Grafana installs between 6.0.0 and 6.1.4 are less vulnerable due to other security improvements. These versions are only vulnerable if the administrator has disabled default security settings.