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How to Look for Suspicious Activities in Windows Servers

Scenario You are running a large production environment with many Windows servers. There are multiple forests in the network and some forests have multiple domain controllers. Your Windows server security is paramount – you want to track and audit suspicious activities and view detailed Windows reports extracted from the Windows servers event logs.

Monitor Alibaba Cloud with Datadog

Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to power businesses across the globe. We are excited to announce that our new integration with Alibaba Cloud is now in public beta. While the Datadog Agent has always been able to provide visibility into Alibaba Cloud instances, this new integration now enables you to also monitor the health and performance of Alibaba Cloud services (load balancers, managed databases, and more) in Datadog.

4 Best Practices for choosing your DevOps tools

If you google “DevOps tools,” you’ll see a dizzying litany of software applications, all promising to simplify your life as a DevOps engineer. This can be an intimidating experience — not only because there are so many DevOps solutions available that it can be difficult to know which ones are the best for your needs, but also because the idea of having to learn and “carry around” so many tools is itself unnerving.

Prometheus metrics / OpenMetrics code instrumentation

In the following example-driven tutorial we will learn how to use Prometheus metrics / OpenMetrics to instrument your code whether you are using Golang, Java, Python or Javascript. We will cover the different metric types and provide readily executable code snippets. Prometheus is an open source time series database for monitoring that was originally developed at SoundCloud before being released as an open source project.

GrafanaCon L.A. Recap: Grafana 6.0, LGTM, and More!

The rest of the city may still have been in a post-Oscars haze, but over 350 monitoring mavens gathered in downtown L.A. bright and early on Feb. 25 to kick off GrafanaCon 2019. The next two days were filled with 40+ talks, including Grafana end user stories from companies like Bloomberg and Tinder.

How to Monitor Amazon DynamoDB with CloudWatch

Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that allows you to easily scale to huge numbers of records with single digit millisecond performance. However, since it’s a managed service, you have less visibility with traditional monitoring tools. As such, it becomes even more important to take advantage of the available monitoring tools in AWS. In this post, we’ll explain how to use CloudWatch to monitor DynamoDB and what is important to watch.

Detecting the Kubernetes API Server DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1002100)

Recently, a new Kubernetes related vulnerability was announced that affected the kube-apiserver. This was a denial of service vulnerability where authorized users with write permissions could overload the API server as it is handling requests. The issue is categorized as a medium severity (CVSS score of 6.5) and can be resolved by upgrading the kube-apiserver to v1.11.8, v1.12.6, or v1.13.4.

Setting Up Your PagerDuty For Sweet Victory

Congratulations! You’ve just purchased PagerDuty, meaning you’ve decided to make an investment in your incident management process. However, in order to maximize your investment, you will need to understand all the moving pieces within PagerDuty. Today, we’ll be setting up PagerDuty for one team: the Bikini Bottom Team.