Ever need to visualize the data your working with? storejson() to the rescue! Let’s re-visit our example for sys.os_release from Feature Friday: Special variables: So, we saw the value of a single key, but if we don’t know what keys are available it can be useful to render the JSON representation. The with attribute in combination with storejson() provides a convenient way to visualize the JSON representation of structured data in CFEngine.

Network automation has become a game-changer for businesses that rely on complex networks. By automating repetitive tasks, companies can improve their network efficiency, reduce human errors, and ultimately save time and costs. That's why network automation tools are becoming essential for companies that want to maintain their competitiveness.

Prometheus has become an essential technology in the world of monitoring and observability. I’ve been aware of its importance for some time, but as a performance engineer, my experience with Prometheus had been limited to using it to store some metrics and visualize them in Grafana. Being a Grafanista, I felt I should dig deeper into Prometheus, knowing it had much more to offer than just being a place to throw performance test results.

Bash, or the Bourne Again SHell, is a command-line interpreter popular in Unix-like operating systems. The default shell for most Linux distributions and older macOS versions, Bash is a preferred tool by many developers and system administrators. A versatile tool for interacting with UNIX-based systems, Bash terminal commands handles a wide range of tasks, including: Bash is the most widely used command-line interface (CLI).

With few exceptions, businesses of any scale depend on the internet. So, it’s all-important to manage and protect the external attack surface it presents to the world. An organization's external attack surface consists of the totality of possible entry points through which an unauthorized user can access an IT environment. This includes everything from websites, web applications and APIs to remote access points and cloud services.

IIS (Internet Information Services) is a web server developed by Microsft, shipped as a part of the Windows Server services. It’s used to host and manage web applications and services. IIS is a particularly robust web server solution that is tightly integrated with the Windows operating system, making it a natural choice for organizations that rely on other Microsoft products.

RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and Redis are some of the most popular microservices message brokers on the market. However, while they’re all the same type of tool, they each offer different features that make them better adapted for specific use cases. To further understand this, in this article, we will outline the main similarities and differences between these tools and highlight which is the best tool for various use cases.

The Azure Cloud platform processes an extensive variety of data including Eventhub Diagnostic Logs, Kubernetes Metrics, SQL Logs, Activity Logs, Container Activity Logs, and Azure Metrics. Depending on the requirements of your organization these logs offer various levels of importance and priority. But it’s more than likely that you will be monitoring a large variety of these logs.