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How To Pick The Right Type of Log Data Visualisation

Data visualisations allow users to organise and present log data in a practical, usable, and sensible manner. This tool in log management ensures that the data collected communicates real-time, actionable insights that will support timely and informed decision-making. Knowing which types of visualisation best suits a particular data set is critical in giving data visualisation optimal business value. Here is how to pick the right type of log data visualisation. Pie charts

How to Configure Syslog on a Cisco Device

In my previous article, I explained what syslog is and why it’s used. In this article, I’m digging into how to configure syslog on network devices. The explanations and examples will be a bit Cisco specific, mainly because that’s the gear I’m most familiar with. Essentially every modern network device has at least some syslog capabilities, though.

7 Essential Principles of DevOps Success

At its core, DevOps is a set of principles. There are certain types of tools and processes that reinforce those principles and put them into practice. But the tools and processes are just a means to an end. The end itself is DevOps principles. Thus, DevOps success boils down to understanding the key DevOps principles, then identifying the tools and processes that enable your team to achieve them.
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It's Here! Monitor Microsoft Teams Audio Video Conferencing

Exoprise released its long awaited Teams Audio Video Conferencing sensor. This sensor fully tests Audio/Video end-to-end capacity, throughput, and network performance through the actual underlying Microsoft Teams and Azure infrastructure. The Teams AV sensor provides deep insight into a network's capability to handle the Teams/Skype Unified Communications (UC) platform. Desktop, Collaboration and Network administrators can now easily diagnose and proactively plan a Microsoft Teams rollout and migration.

The $5B DevOps Stranglehold

Ten years ago NewRelic, DataDog, Splunk, Dynatrace and SolarWinds built tools we loved to use. They were easy to implement and solved problems quickly and efficiently. Each company was known primarily for a single, well-conceived product. NewRelic’s APM. Splunk’s log file analyzer. DataDog’s server monitor. SolarWinds’ network performance monitor. These companies were beloved by users during the 2000s. Fast forward to 2020 and the world is very different.

GrafanaCONline recap: Grafana 7.0, Prometheus deep dives, Loki future, electric cars, wine waste, and more

GrafanaCONline wrapped up last Friday, and we were thrilled to have so many of you join the sessions over the past three weeks. Thank you for tuning in, asking questions, chatting on Slack, and generally making our reimagined conference a success.

Redis Compression Benchmarking

At LogicMonitor, we deal primarily with large quantities of time series data. Customer devices are monitored at regular intervals and data points are provided to our agentless application to be processed and interpreted. Recently, we’ve endeavored to expand the presence of machine learning in our application to enhance anomaly detection.

Datadog on Kafka

As a company, Datadog ingests trillions of data points per day. Kafka is the messaging persistence layer underlying many of our high-traffic services. Consequently, our Kafka usage is quite high: double-digit gigabytes per second bandwidth and the need for petabytes of high performance storage, even for relatively short retention windows. In this episode, we’ll speak with two engineers responsible for scaling the Kafka infrastructure within Datadog, Balthazar Rouberol and Jamie Alquiza. They'll share their strategy in scaling Kafka, how it’s been deployed on Kubernetes, and introduce kafka-kit; our open source toolkit for scaling Kafka clusters. You'll leave with lessons learned while scaling persistent storage on modern orchestrated infrastructure, and actionable insights you can apply at your organization