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Installing the ELK Stack on Alibaba Cloud: Step by Step Guide

The ELK Stack is the world’s most popular open source log analytics and log management platform. Together, the four main components of the stack — Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats, provide users with a powerful tool for aggregating, storing and analyzing log data. In production environments, the ELK Stack requires an infrastructure flexible and powerful enough to power it.

Five reasons to choose Log360, part 1: User-friendly deployment and UI

SIEM solutions are a must-have in any organization’s security toolkit. They allow you to analyze events from your network, gain actionable insights into network activity, and detect and mitigate data breaches and other security incidents, all while remaining compliant with regulatory mandates. Log360 is ManageEngine’s comprehensive SIEM offering that helps organizations meet a wide range of auditing, security, and compliance needs.

Trident 4 IFA 2.0 and AIOps Deep Packet and Flow Analytics

In this video, Broadcom describes In-band Flow Analyzer (IFA) 2.0 supported by Trident 4 and Broadcom's AIOps solution. The video also demonstrates a couple of IFA 2.0 use cases with AIOps network topology involving Trident 4 and Jericho 2 switches leveraging BroadView Instrumentation and AIOps analytics.

Writing custom service_methods

CFEngine provides the services promise type to manage the state of a given service. services type promises are an abstraction of agent bundles, they can be used to declare the desired state for a collection of things identified by a name. Most commonly services type promises are used to manage standard operating system services though they can be used for abstracting other logical states.

A Look Inside GitLab's Public Dashboards

There are transparent companies – and then there’s GitLab. “GitLab is a ridiculously transparent company,” said Ben Kochie, a Staff Backend Engineer for Monitoring at GitLab. “When GitLab has a database outage, we live stream the recovery on YouTube.” GitLab has the same bare all approach to its metrics. “All of our Prometheus metrics are available on a public Grafana dashboard,” Kochie told the crowd gathered at GrafanaCon.

Cloudflare Outage Wreaks Havoc on Major Sites Around the World

Cloudflare, a company that provides CDN services to major websites around the world, recently experienced an outage that took down many of their customers’ sites. The outage began around 7AM EST, and many major companies, including web hosting company WP Engine and chat service Discord also experienced outages due to issues over at Cloudflare. Cloudflare has identified the source of the problem and implemented a temporary fix until the issues can be resolved permanently.

Public Cloud Trends in 2019 and Beyond

From workload shifts to deployment models, Spiceworks examines emerging public cloud trends in businesses across North America and Europe. In recent years, cloud computing technology has changed the way many companies handle IT. Using the public cloud computing model, IT departments have the option to pay-as-they-go while rapidly spinning up services, applications, or instances in a cloud provider’s data center, scaling them up and down as demand changes.

Mattermost security update 5.11.1 / 5.10.2 / 5.9.2 / 4.10.10 (ESR) released

We are releasing a recommended security update via Mattermost Team Edition 5.11.1, 5.10.2, 5.9.2 and 4.10.10 (ESR) and Mattermost Enterprise Edition 5.11.1, 5.10.2, 5.9.2 and 4.10.10 (ESR). This security update addresses a medium-level vulnerability discovered during a security research review by Zonduu.