Logging Best Practices Part 6: Security and Compliance
Isn’t all logging pretty much the same? Logs appear by default, like magic, without any further intervention by teams other than simply starting a system… right?
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A conversation about Grafana Labs' new partnership with New Relic
In helping users unify and contextualize all their observability data, Grafana is completely database-agnostic. “We believe that organizations get the best view of what’s going on when they pull in their data from wherever it lives,” said Raj Dutt, CEO of Grafana Labs, the company behind Grafana.
SCOM Activity Log
Wait, what? An activity log in SCOM? Did I read that right? You sure did! If you haven’t heard it yet, Microsoft recently published some auditing reports as part of SCOM 2019 UR2 that enable you to track management pack actions, override tracking, management pack objects, etc. The official Microsoft release notes are here.
Netdata Agent v1.24: Prometheus/OpenMetrics collector and multi-host database mode
This release broadens our commitment to open standards, interoperability, and extensibility with a new generic Prometheus collector that works seamlessly with any application that makes its metrics available in the Prometheus/OpenMetrics exposition format, including support for Windows 10 via windows_exporter. Netdata will autodetect over 600 Prometheus endpoints and instantly generate charts with all the exposed metrics, meaningfully visualized.
Tip of the Day - CDN Hit or Miss ?
Understand how your CDN's are performing with regards to the number of Hits or Misses !!! Remember, if a browser requests a piece of content and the CDN has it cached, then it will deliver that content. This is referred to as a cache hit. However, if the content is not available on the Cache Server(s), then the CDN makes the request back to the Origin server, this is classified as a cache miss. You want cache hits, NOT misses
The DevOps Workflow
At the center of DevOps practices is automation and workflow - but what does that actually mean? In this episode of Dissecting DevOps, Dave and Chris talk about the ideal state of DevOps workflows, and why an iterative approach to DevOps processes is critical for the long term success of DevOps practices and principles. Dave McAllister and Chris Riley are DevOps Advocates at Splunk.
JFrog Platform Performance with Datadog Analytics
Faithful operation of your JFrog Platform can be best assured by tracking usage data of Artifactory and Xray. With insights gained through real-time observability and log analytics, you can boost the efficiency of your DevOps pipeline and keep your software releases running joyfully. Datadog is a SaaS-based data analytics platform that is a popularly used monitoring service for cloud-scale applications. It’s a data analysis platform that can be readily enabled for JFrog Platform monitoring through our integrations.
Performing Zabbix Alert Correlation and Incident Acceleration with CloudFabrix AIOps
CloudFabrix AIOps 360 solution can ingest alerts, events, metrics and from various monitoring tools to perform event correlation, alert noise reduction and enable incident resolution acceleration. Learn more about CloudFabrix AIOps 360 In this blog I will cover Zabbix integration aspects with our AIOps 360 solution. Zabbix is one of the popular open source monitoring platforms used by many enterprises and MSPs, including some of our customers.
What Can Pandora FMS Offer as a Server Monitoring Tool?
When your server goes down, it can certainly throw a wrench into your daily processes, costing you money and even causing you to lose customers until it’s back up and running again. Thankfully, Pandora FMS can help you prevent it from happening, and in the worst-case scenario when it does, you have the tools to get back up and running again in no time with our server monitoring solution!