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Elastic Stack Features (formerly X-Pack) is an Elastic Stack extension that bundles security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, and graph capabilities. One could use either all or specific components. People love Splunk. But not its price. So people are always on a lookout for a good Splunk alternative. Many of those people migrated from Splunk to ELK Stack or Hosted ELK Stack solutions like Logsene.

Microservices have been gaining popularity since they were introduced in 2015. But they come with challenges for both developers and users because of the intricate configuration and deployment which often leave developers longing for the simplicity of monolithic applications.

Today, I am proud to announce the release of Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring, a Grafana-based monitoring solution that enables engineers to speed up detection and reduce time to resolution. This new offering extends our Log Management and Cloud Security (Cloud SIEM) products, which together form Logz.io’s new Cloud Observability Platform.

“SCOM is dead” is a refrain often heard these days, in large part thanks to Microsoft’s latest marketing push on Azure Monitor. Luckily for you, that's fake news! Contrary to the view that Azure Monitor is fast replacing SCOM, the latter remains the most widely used monitoring tool today – and one that Microsoft remains invested in, as can be seen from SCOM 2019’s many new features. What is the real relationship between SCOM and Azure Monitor?

Today’s enterprises are embracing digital transformation and modernizing their infrastructure to deliver products faster and stay ahead of the competition. Here at LogicMonitor, we usually see the result of this modernization as a distributed and hybrid IT infrastructure that allows enterprises to optimize factors like cost and security while still realizing the benefits of being able to scale and deploy faster.

Following the record-breaking Hacktoberfest that saw more than 200 contributions to Mattermost in October, we held a virtual hackathon November 22–26. Over the five-day period, 45 members from our open source community, including contributors and staff, created amazing features and plugins for Mattermost. We were all impressed by the Mattermost Hackathon presentations last week—wow!

In the film Taken, Liam Neeson states that he has a "particular set of skills" that he plans on using to find the kidnappers who have taken his daughter. He’s very clear about what skills are required and how he is going to use them. With that in mind, there is a very particular set of skills that an IT Asset Management (ITAM) professional thinks they need to forge a successful career.

AWS today announced Provisioned Concurrency, an exciting feature to allow Lambda customers to not have to worry about cold starts anymore. And we at Lumigo are proud to be an official launch partner for AWS Provisioned Concurrency. In this post we’ll drill into the problems cold starts pose, explore how Provisioned Concurrency resolves them, and explain some rough edges you need to understand when it comes to working with this new feature.

Some of the most common questions we face daily are related to our future plans or the roadmap of Pandora FMS. Thanks to our customers and users, we know you expect us to integrate increasingly more features into the Pandora FMS interface and architecture. But it is not just about improving what we already have to make it more efficient, user-friendly and fast, but about going beyond, much further.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of external collection for Elastic Stack Monitoring. With this announcement comes the ability to monitor Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, APM server, and Beats all via Metricbeat modules. Using external collection, users now have the capability to collect and send monitoring data for their Elastic Stack without having to depend on the health of the monitored services.