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Secure Your Endpoints with ESET and Logz.io

Watching too many movies might give you the impression that cyber attacks are launched by well-funded masterminds able to control the internet at their whim. But really, successful attacks can be as simple as disguising some malicious software as a link to an often-used site, and tricking people into clicking it, known as phishing. The result is that many cyber attacks are carried out by taking advantage of unsuspecting end users.

Snapshot Lifecycle Management - Sept 9, 2020 Elastic Meetup

Snapshot Lifecycle Management (SLM) allows you to set up snapshot lifecycle policies to automate the timing, frequency, and retention of snapshots. In this talk we will cover the basics of registering a repository, setting up a snapshot policy and taking the test snapshots. If you are aware of the necessity of taking frequent snapshots for high availability/disaster recovery and you’ve been looking for a way to automate the whole process - then SLM is the right tool for you!

Are you on top of newly introduced errors in your CI/CD releases?

Log files are infamous for being “noisy”. Without the right management solution, trying to find a specific piece of information or using them to reproduce a critical error is a complex undertaking. If you’re working with CI/CD, how do you attribute new errors to a particular release? How do you investigate those errors and make sure that your customers aren’t being impacted? Faster releases mean shorter development and testing cycles before new code reaches production.

Nailing ELK at Scale: A Real World Success Story from Holler

Ever use stickers or GIFs to make your texts, messages, or DMs more interesting? If yes, you’ve probably used Holler – a messaging tool that makes digital conversations come to life. The engineers at Holler have the daunting task of monitoring the performance and reliability of a service used by millions of people around the globe on a daily basis. Like many modern DevOps teams, they chose the ELK Stack to manage and analyze their log data. Hear from Daniel Seravalli, a Lead Engineer at Holler, on their story about grappling with the complexities of managing their ELK Stack at scale.

Enhanced Data Analysis and Insights with Catchpoint and Splunk

Digital experience monitoring is only effective if incidents are detected immediately and the data aids in quick root cause analysis and resolution. To track the availability, reachability, performance, and reliability of each component in the application delivery chain, different teams within an organization, use multiple tools. Each of these tools generate huge volumes of data that can make it difficult to gain any meaningful insight or even to correlate relevant KPIs.

Are you paying too much for your logging solution?

The cost of logging is one of the big problems of a scaled software system. Logging solutions now need to support far more than they ever have. You need to make a real investment in a logging solution that can support these initiatives. However, the up-front costs of a custom-built logging solution are prohibitive for many organizations. No business wants its bottom line affected by logging costs. That’s where Coralogix comes in.

Debugging broken grok expressions in Elasticsearch ingest processors

In two previous posts, we covered structuring data with grok and building custom grok patterns. But what happens if you just can’t get your grok patterns to work? In this article, we’re going to use Kibana’s Grok Debugger to help us debug a broken grok pattern. The divide-and-conquer method described below should help you to quickly find the reason that a given grok pattern is not matching your data.

Announcing the Elastic Contributor Program

Open source contributions are foundational to Elastic — from Elasticsearch’s Apache Lucene core to the addition of open source Logstash and Kibana to form the Elastic Stack you’ve come to know and love. Over the years, the Elastic community has created over 90 Beats, shared use case tutorials like those from Volvo, T-Mobile, and Microsoft, and presented at hundreds upon hundreds of meetups.