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Deploy The ELK Stack on Kubernetes with Helm

The main objective of the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) is to aggregate logs. However, with the increased usage of ELK and Kubernetes as a pairing the solution can go beyond the aggregation of standard logs and include monitoring and analysis of Kubernetes telemetry data. Therefore, more users are looking at deploying the ELK stack on Kubernetes. Yet, deploying the ELK stack on Kubernetes can be a complex task but with the assistance of Helm charts, the process is much simpler.

How MSPs Can Maximize Network Observability: 3 Keys to Success

In today’s increasingly dynamic digital world, the need for end-to-end network visibility has never been more critical. These requirements are especially profound for managed service providers (MSPs) and communications service providers (CSPs). MSPs and CSPs find themselves at the epicenter of digital transformation.

Best Practices for Operating and Monitoring an SD-WAN Network

SD-WAN has emerged as a game-changer for organizations seeking to optimize network performance and enhance connectivity across geographically dispersed locations. However, you need effective operational and monitoring practices to get the full benefit of SD-WAN. This becomes increasingly important due to the operational and security challenges that arise as SaaS applications become more popular and end users can work from anywhere.

Introducing the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent

As Elastic continues its commitment to OpenTelemetry (OTel), we are excited to announce the Elastic distribution of the OTel Java Agent. In this blog post, we will explore the rationale behind our unique distribution, detailing the powerful additional features it brings to the table. We will provide an overview of how these enhancements can be utilized with our distribution, the standard OTel SDK, or the vanilla OTel Java agent.

Navigating the Maze of Incumbent Pricing Models in IT and Security

This is the second in a series of blog posts about the disconnect between modern IT and security teams and the vendors they’re forced to work with. If you’re looking for the first and last posts, you can find it here. In the dynamic world of managing observability and telemetry data, pricing models for tools and platforms are showing their age, creating a significant disconnect between vendors and the IT and security teams they serve.

Server Administrator's Guide to POP3 and IMAP Monitoring

Over 347 billion emails were sent and received every day in 2023, a number that is expected to increase to over 361 billion daily emails in 2024. With so much information always flowing, the reliability and efficiency of email servers have never been more important. So what happens when servers fail and emails don’t go through? Consider the financial repercussions — downtime can cost businesses as much as $5,600 per minute (a whopping $300,000 per hour).

Serverless Architecture Design Patterns For Cost Efficiency

Serverless architecture has emerged as a pivotal technology for developers seeking to build scalable, efficient applications without the overhead of managing servers. At the heart of this revolution are services like AWS Lambda and API Gateway, which have redefined how we deploy and scale applications, offering a truly pay-as-you-go model that aligns operational costs directly with actual usage.

How to choose your Software Defined Cloud Interconnect provider

With a growing number of enterprises adopting Software Defined Cloud Interconnects (SDCIs) to better support their hybrid- and multi-cloud architectures, what are the features, functions and capabilities you should look for when choosing your private connectivity partner?

Grafana Enterprise data source plugins: A brief guide to what they are and how to get started

One of the most powerful features of Grafana is the ability to unify and derive value from your data, regardless of where that data lives. This is because we’re fully committed to making Grafana an open, composable, and extensible observability platform for our more than 20 million users worldwide. But how exactly do we deliver on that promise of openness and extensibility? Grafana data source plugins play a big role.

Introducing A new Bitbucket pull request experience

Here at Bitbucket Cloud, we are focused on helping you and your teams have the best possible experience for code review. That's why we continue to add features like batched comments, marking files as viewed, AI-assisted pull request descriptions – and coming very soon, iterative reviews. We also want to give you the best possible experience navigating a pull request, which is why we're proud to be introducing a brand-new layout for pull requests.