Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Code-to-Cloud Visibility: An essential framework for DevOps success

In DevOps we are used to talking about application velocity. But velocity without a framework is short lived and potentially creates more risk than benefit. Code-to-Cloud visibility is the practice of making sure engineering teams have visibility across the entire SDLC in depth and breadth. With code-to-cloud visibility organizations understand the impact of application development from feature definition to it running in production.

A modern CMDB at the heart of automation

The classic view we have on the CMDB is no longer sufficient. Having a static database of Configuration Items that is heavily guarded by a Change Management process, no longer suffices in a modern, agile, or cloud-native environment. A modern CMDB should be the heart of your automation journey, both being managed by your automation as well as feed information back to your platform via automation. This session will tackle how focusing your efforts on a good, lean CMDB with the necessary (automated) processes around it, can greatly increase your platforms growth, maintenance and agility.

Atlassian Access: Enhanced security for Atlassian cloud products

Atlassian Access provides centralized enterprise-grade security and administration for Atlassian cloud products across your organization. Admins are empowered with enhanced security controls, scalable user and access management, and company-wide insight into Atlassian cloud products.

The Importance of Sharing "Pretty" Things | An IT Journey to Monitoring Glory: Session 3

During this THWACK® Livecast series, we're focused on you, the IT professional. Whether you're an accidental admin and just getting started, welcoming scope creep and getting noticed at your company, or the monitoring engineer who's ready to shine, these sessions are for you. Attendees will learn how to leverage SolarWinds tools to communicate clearly and concisely to management and become heroes in the Monday morning postmortem meetings. Join the sessions as they happen to ask questions directly to the presenters and get your answers live. Monitoring is a journey, not a destination—we may start at SNMP and WMI, but we'll help you end up victorious.

Splunk Performance Improvements Using Cribl LogStream

LogStream is a data pipeline solution that can help you transform your unstructured data to be more structured before it persists to disk. This doesn’t only improve sending to Splunk, but also sending to other observability solutions like Datadog, Wavefront, the Elastic Stack, or Sumo Logic, as well as writing to an S3-compliant API, GCP Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage.

Everyone Says It's a Bad Idea; Should You Do It Anyway?

It's a special edition episode this week as Ben chats with Felix Livni of Schedulista to talk startups. There are plenty of hot takes to go around such as ignoring good advice when starting a business, how boostrappers should do the exact opposite things that a venture funded company does, and why you may consider direct mail for a SaaS business. Grab your pitchforks and tune in!