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With the new AWS IoT SiteWise plugin, you can visualize and monitor your equipment data in Grafana dashboards

In collaboration with the AWS team, we have just launched another AWS integration, the AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana. AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that helps users collect, store, organize, and monitor data from industrial equipment, across facilities, at scale.

What the Google Outage Can Teach Us About Our Own Services

This week, the world stopped for a few hours as Google users experienced an outage on a massive scale. The outage affected ALL services which require Google account authentication. This includes the Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Console, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, etc.), Google Workspace (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, etc.) and Google Classroom. With the myriad of affected platforms, this particular outage was far from passing by unnoticed by users.

Webinar: Building Serverless Flows with AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions are an emerging solution in the field of serverless architectures, as they provide capabilities to coordinate between many services. This webinar takes the "Right to be forgotten" (GDPR) workflow as an example of a hands-on AWS Step Functions tutorial: use-cases, difficulties, and solutions. Combining Cloudway's experience with Lumigo's monitoring and debugging solution, we provide a full framework to manage multiple subsystems into a single serverless flow and get the work done.

Webinar: How to Monitor Serverless Applications

The software we write does not always work as smoothly as we'd like. To know if something went wrong, find the root cause, and fix the problem, we need to monitor our system and get alerts whenever issues pop up. There are many useful tools and practices for non-serverless applications. As we adopt serverless architecture can we continue to use the same approach? Unfortunately, the answer is no.

How to Enable Detection Rules via Elastic Security - Version 7.10

The detection engine brings automated threat detection to the Elastic Stack through the Security app in Kibana. As part of our belief in the power of open-source, Elastic Security has open sourced all our detection rules to work alongside the security community to stop threats at scale and arm every analyst. In this video, you’ll learn more about the detection engine and how to automate the protection of your data.

An Open Source Prometheus Tutorial for System and Docker Monitoring

Prometheus is an essential element in DevOps. It has one of the largest contributor communities in the open source world and is the favorite database for time-series metrics data. It is also part of Logz.io’s complete observability package, which integrates open source grafana, Jaeger, and ELK Stack into one platform. It’s a favorite for system and container monitoring. This tutorial will show you how Prometheus works with Docker and your local machine.

Top 5 Hurdles for Intermediate Flux Users and Resources for Optimizing Flux

Now that you’ve read through Top 5 Hurdles for Flux Beginners and Resources for Learning to Use Flux, you’re well on your way to being an advanced Flux user. This post includes some of the top hurdles for intermediate Flux users as well as solutions.

Top 5 Hurdles for Flux Beginners and Resources for Learning to Use Flux

Are you new to InfluxDB v2.0 and Flux? Are you intimidated by learning a new time series scripting and query language? Perhaps you’re an InfluxDB v1.x user and you’re familiar with InfluxQL, and you’re unconvinced that learning Flux is worth your while? This two-part blog series aims to demonstrate the power of Flux and walk you through solutions to the top hurdles for both new and old InfluxDB users.

AWS Well-Architected Workload Recommendations in Splunk

The Well-Architected Tool is a new AWS service that compares the state of your workloads with AWS architectural best practices. Splunking your workload state and improvement recommendations will give you better insights into your applications as well as best practices to follow along your cloud journey. The Well-Architected integration in Grand Central will give you workload insights broken down by the following 5 pillars.