If you’ve been following the blog updates on the development of Cortex – the long-term distributed storage for Prometheus – you surely noticed the recent release of Cortex 1.4, which focuses on making support for “blocks engine” production-ready. Marco Pracucci has already written about the blocks support in Cortex, how it reduces operational complexity for running Prometheus at massive scale, and why Grafana Labs has invested in all of that work.

We software engineers like to think ourselves unflappable. Consider that we spend most of our days staring at glowing pages of eldritch horror that no mortal was meant to witness. We whisper and type our otherworldly incantations, all the while feeling the hungry gaze of a lurking cross-site scripting bug, or a shadowy use-after-free, or an accidental summoning of ZALGO. (H̨e̛ ̕c͢om͢es, you know.)

If our end users end up too long for a query to return results due to Elasticsearch query performance issues, it can often lead to frustration. Slow queries can affect the search performance of an ecommerce site or a Business Intelligence dashboard – either way, this could lead to negative business consequences. So it’s important to know how to monitor the speed of search queries, diagnose and debug to improve search performance.

Migrations carry a setup cost and engineers don’t work for free. Even under the most ideal conditions, it’s possible moving data between web monitoring providers will result in some missing feature or differing functionality. That’s just life. If you’re facing a migration you sometimes have to make do with the cards you’re dealt. But it’s not all doom and gloom! We hope this checklist will help you play like you’ve got pocket aces.

A lot of engineers think a project is done once the code is live. In a perfect world, that could be true—alas, commits are rarely free of problems. For companies that have a lot of focus on dev but little on ops, this can quickly turn into a nightmare. Fortunately, there are a lot of infrastructure monitoring tools out there that can help marry DevOps and keep your apps, websites, and processes running smoothly.

Telehealth use has become a prominent and preferred method of patient care since the COVID-19 outbreak. What happens though when technology becomes a barrier to adequate care? For example, your Electronic Health Record (EHR) Telehealth application is working too slowly or is randomly disconnecting. This not only looks bad to the patient trying to meet with the physician, but it makes it impossible to deliver a quality patient experience.

This post will help you write effective Snort Rules to materially improve your security posture. We’ll begin with a breakdown of how a Rule is constructed and then explore best practices with examples in order to capture as many malicious activities as possible while using as few rules as possible. Snort is an open-source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) that provides real-time packet analysis and is part of the Coralogix STA solution.

It makes it easier to validate any server’s status without flipping between program and tools if you have one platform to track the servers. Besides, every server with remote server monitoring from a single application viewing window is provided with an accurate and real-time status. You will have the option of simplicity to decide what sort of services you want to track on each server. For instance, only a network storage server used for data backups could control a drive storage area.

Obkio is announcing a new Public Monitoring Agent with daregraphic, a technology consulting firm focused on the conception and set up of distance-work/remote graphic environments. Learn more about their new Public Monitoring Agent deployed in Montreal, and more Agents coming soon.

The work being done on federal, state, and local levels to ensure the health of society during and post-COVID-19 will be driven by the Internet of Things (IoT). From contact tracing to drones, the reopening of America will be regulated by millions of data streams delivered from thousands of connection points. IT practitioners will be tasked with making sense of all the information coming across their screens. Different devices produce different types of data streams and logs.