In the olden days, we used to have to get logs by putting our agent on one machine at a time, like hitching a horse to a horse-drawn carriage. But now, we’ve got Kubernetes. It’s like a horse factory, and we’ve got more horses than we know what to do with. In this wild west of containerization, we could quickly end up underneath more logs than our old-timey agent could keep track of! But now there’s a new sheriff in town.
AWS has a lot of services, and they all generate logs. A lot of logs. We’ve worked hard to make sure you can capture logs from every source and service on AWS, and today we’re happy to announce the final piece of our AWS logging puzzle: LogDNA’s S3 Collector integration. It’s an easy-to-use Lambda function that lets you ingest any AWS logs that get dumped to S3 – like logs from CloudFront and ELB.
Industry 4.0 technology is transforming industry all over the world. Digital innovations such as data, virtual reality, automation, and robotics are all helping brands create products and services and deliver them to customers in better and more efficient ways than ever before. One of the most useful elements of Industry 4.0 technology comes from the Internet of Things.
In order to determine the health and current state of your systems, monitoring by its very nature requires access to internal and external services. Traditionally, users have had to get creative in terms of how they expose sensitive information (secrets, like access credentials) to their monitoring tool; operators typically would leverage local environment variables or give up entirely by putting secrets in the monitoring configuration.
This is the one post I hope you’ll never need. However, should you ever need it, this is your one-stop shop for understanding how to proceed with DevOps incident management. Have you just been attacked? Did the commit go wrong? A CI pipeline went haywire? Don’t worry. I got you.
Unified endpoint management (UEM) is an IT best practice and strategy for securing and controlling desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets in a connected, secure manner from a single console. It’s increasingly important for enterprises today because of the prevalence of corporate-owned, personally-enabled (COPE) devices, and bring your own devices (BYOD) policies.
Barely a week after Patch Tuesday, internet security company Qihoo 360 has discovered yet another vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), this time due to a remote code execution vulnerability in the jscript.dll scripting engine. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2020-0674, is considered Critical for IE 11, and Moderate for IE 9 and IE 10.
December was a busy month with systems we don’t normally see experiencing server downtime. Our first story, in particular, is an excellent example of how complicated monitoring can get as infrastructure grows. We saw every level get hit, from the government to big-name players, with ransomware being one of the major thorns in our collective sides. But we also bring you the heartwarming tale of the little Minecraft Server that could.
Have you ever dealt with a unicode bug? Where plain text — the substance you work with all day — can no longer be trusted? It can be disorienting to say the least! This article will help prepare you so that the next time that happens you’ll be able to spend less time hyperventilating and more time troubleshooting.
84.51°, the data analytics and marketing company owned by The Kroger Company, found out it needed centralized metrics the hard way. When Erin O’Brien was brought into the company in the spring of 2019 as a Lead Service Manager, she was tasked with evaluating and seeking ways to continuously improve how the Technology and Product teams worked together.
