Portworx provides solutions for Kubernetes storage as well as other leading container schedulers, dramatically reducing storage, compute, and infrastructure costs for running mission-critical, multi-cloud applications with zero downtime or data loss. With Portworx, you can manage any database or stateful service on any infrastructure using any container scheduler. Portworx is trusted by many of the world’s most sophisticated IT organizations including Comcast, GE, Lufthansa Systems, the U.S.

Much of a business’ strength lies in its network infrastructure. One way to keep your business up and running is by proactively monitoring key network performance indicators. However, with a plethora of parameters to keep an eye on, and a lot of data to skim through, there’s only so much an IT professional can do while troubleshooting. This is a common challenge many IT teams in the network infrastructure monitoring field face, and it often increases the time taken to resolve issues.

Containers are eating the world and the newly added Containers view in Sematext Cloud helps you manage that. You can experience container monitoring with the new Containers view that provides you with enhanced visibility into all your hosts and containers, drawing your attention to the ones that need it the most.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is brilliantly designed as a hierarchical structure, ensuring that any single point can fail with the system remaining relatively intact. There are some nuances to this statement, like caching issues that arise from outages, but the overall focus is on uptime. This is why the DNS check is a critical part of your IT uptime monitoring process.

CNN recently estimated that in the first six months of 2018, the cryptocurrency market lost approximately $731 million to hackers and theft. One of the most famous software breaches—which caused major panic in the market—involved Cointhumb, a cryptocurrency exchange with more than 1 million users. In this breach, hackers stole around $32 million from customers’ wallets.

OpsLogix is happy to announce the latest update of the EZalert solution, version 2. It does a lot more than just closing alerts, in comparison to the first release of the solution.

Now that the holiday season is coming to an end, the OpsLogix team is slowly but surely returning after enjoying their hard earned vacations shortly following Microsoft Inspire in Las Vegas last month. We were proud and happy to present the newest update of our EZalert solution and inform our (future) customers about our plans for the upcoming release.

Stability and user experience were the main goals for this release. Please read the full Changelog for all the details and the Upgrading instructions to be on the safe side. Spoiler: as always, upgrade is safe and super easy.

Last week I attended ServerlessConf SF. This was the 8th and largest ServerlessConf to date with more than 550 attendees. The conference had an effective agenda with a strong slate of talks and an impressive presence of community thought leaders. Kudos to the ACloudGuru team for organizing the event!

PromCon was held this week in Munich, Germany, and Grafana Labs was excited to both sponsor and speak at this great conference. If you didn’t have a chance to attend, you can watch a recorded livestream of the event and download slides in the blog roundup below.