Monitoring provides real-time insights into containerized applications' performance, resource utilization, and overall health. It allows organizations to identify bottlenecks, track resource allocation, detect anomalies, and ensure optimal performance of their containerized infrastructure. Let's explore the world of container monitoring software and discover the leading options that empower you with the necessary tools to monitor and optimize your containers effectively in 2025.

Let’s be honest: setting up Kafka monitoring on Kubernetes can feel like you’re trying to solve a puzzle without all the pieces in place. Between connectivity snags, configuration issues, and keeping tabs on resource usage, it’s easy to feel like you’re constantly firefighting. But tackling these issues head-on with a few go-to solutions can save a lot of headaches down the road.

Endpoints are a prime target for threat actors. In fact, 68% of the respondents to a Ponenmon study reported experiencing an endpoint attack that successfully compromised data or IT infrastructure. And, with IBM pegging the average cost of a data breach at $4.88 million USD, it’s clear that effective endpoint monitoring and security is a key objective for organizations of all sizes. As the stakes for endpoint security increase, so does the complexity.

Organizations are rapidly adopting endpoint detection and response software to address the challenge and strengthen their overall network infrastructure security. Why? In large part because endpoints are used by the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain (humans!) and therefore create business risk. Endpoint devices typically have internet access, can reach sensitive internal data, and are primarily used by people who aren’t cybersecurity professionals.

Monitoring with Graphite is often easier than with Prometheus because it uses a simple, hierarchical naming system that's intuitive to manage. Its storage model is also designed for long-term data retention without complex setups, which is perfect when historical data matters. By converting Prometheus metrics to Graphite, you streamline your monitoring to one consistent format, reducing the hassle of juggling multiple systems.

With this blog post, we continue our quarterly “What’s New” series to inform a broader audience about the latest features and improvements made to VictoriaMetrics Anomaly Detection (or simply vmanomaly). This post covers Q3'24 progress along with early Q4 to accommodate a slight shift in the publishing schedule — why not take advantage of it? Stay tuned for upcoming content on anomaly detection.

At Cribl, we’ve been deeply investing in the Microsft Azure security space. Last year, we introduced a native integration with Microsoft Sentinel, enabling us to write data seamlessly to native and custom tables. As highlighted earlier, working with Microsoft Sentinel and Log Analytics involves interacting with tables with predefined column names and data types.

Azure AI Search is Microsoft Azure’s managed search service. In addition to tackling traditional search use cases, Azure AI Search also includes AI-powered features to make it a fully capable document catalog, search engine, and vector database. AI Search is highly interoperable—it can use models created in Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Studio, or Azure ML.

As organizations increasingly turn to Kubernetes to support their cloud-native applications, it has become critical for teams to analyze and respond to the dense telemetry data related to this orchestration layer.

OpenAI and its offerings have become mission-critical for countless developers and organizations. This is why it's crucial to understand the platform's reliability as a core business enabler. One way to do so is to track the service status from the OpenAI status page. In this analysis, we review incident data from OpenAI's 2024 status updates, highlighting patterns and offering insights to help manage subsequent disruptions more effectively.