In any high pressure situation, the key to fast action is preparedness. And that’s true when it comes to incidents, too. Documenting and training your team on your incident response processes is essential to ensuring a coordinated and efficient response effort. And training sessions, or game days, as they’re sometimes called, are one way to get everyone up to speed.
Today, PagerDuty launched a new AIOps solution to leverage the power of AI, provide built-in automation and build on the company’s foundation data model to transform modern operations for the enterprise. PagerDuty has long suppressed noise to help distributed development teams focus.
In March of 2022, Elastic decided to close source the most popular log management and analytics solution in the world: the ELK Stack. Millions chose ELK as their logging platform and made it the heart of their troubleshooting operations because it was open source. And suddenly, it wasn’t – leaving many looking for other options. Shortly after, AWS launched OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards as open source alternatives to Elasticsearch and Kibana, respectively.
Today we’re excited to announce the InfluxDB add-on for Ockam Orchestrator. Through the use of the add-on, customers that are using InfluxDB Cloud can use Ockam to improve their security posture by automatically granting uniquely identifiable, least privilege, time-limited credentials for any client that needs to connect to InfluxDB Cloud.
Alerting is a critical feature in monitoring and observability products. The monitoring platform continually tests systems and applications for metrics crossing thresholds, key events in logs and the other warning signs of issues. Alerting ensures that help desks, administrators and IT Ops teams know about issues, or impeding issues and handle communications and remediation rapidly.
Spring has sprung, and the bees have been busy. Let’s have a look at what’s new in Honeycomb at the close of March.
After a longer period without a major update, our April 2023 update has it in for it – promised!
It has now been over a year since Russian forces invaded its neighbor to the west leading to the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. Kentik’s Doug Madory reviews what has happened with internal connectivity within Ukraine over the course of the war in this analysis done for a collaboration with the Wall Street Journal. This February marked a grim milestone in the ongoing war in Ukraine.
