This article was contributed by Michael Hinkle, Probe Engineering and Manufacturing Supervisor at Texas Instruments. My name is Mike Hinkle, and I use InfluxDB to monitor my daughter’s pulse oximeter and to better understand her overall health. Through my career as an engineer, currently at Texas Instruments, I was aware of time series databases and I love to play with various technologies.

Logs are an invaluable source of information, as they provide insights into the severity and possible root causes of problems in your system. But it can be hard to get the right level of visibility from your logs while keeping costs to a minimum. Systems that process large volumes of logs consume more resources and therefore make up a higher percentage of your overall monitoring budget. Further, log throughput can be highly variable, creating unexpected resource usage and financial costs.

In part one of this two-part blog series, we discussed seven reasons security configurations are an important part of an organization’s security posture. In this part, we’ll look at eight security configurations that can help with ensuring comprehensive control over the endpoints, avoiding vulnerabilities, deploying security configurations, and automating a number of verticals of endpoint security.

As one of the leading grocery delivery services in India, Grofers needed to make massive fulfillment adjustments as demand rocketed due to an entire nation sheltering in place to help control the spread of infection during a global pandemic. For the Grofers team, providing much-needed grocery delivery service is as much of a technical challenge as a human resources one.

We’ve heard from our customers that you need visibility into metrics and logs from Google Cloud, other clouds, and on-prem in one place. Google Cloud has partnered with Blue Medora to bring you a single solution to save time and money in managing your logs in a single place. Google Cloud’s operations management suite gives you the same scalable core platform that powers all internal and Google Cloud observability.

One of the best parts of our job is enabling you to become the best #ITPerformanceHero that you can be. But behind the scenes, eG Innovations is filled with talented team members who wear their own IT Hero capes. We want to take some time to introduce you to some of the people who make eG Innovations the leading performance monitoring company on the market. We’re pleased to introduce Arun Aravamudhan, Head, APM and Web UX products.

Lumigo’s Auto-Tracing allows you to implement distributed tracing on your Lambda functions with 3-clicks and no manual code changes. If you’ve already decided to move to a serverless infrastructure, you probably understand the importance of monitoring your AWS Lambdas and what it might entail. For the few out there that are still wondering what monitoring AWS Lambda means, I’ll break it down for you in a couple of steps.