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October brings Halloween and National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, however, it has also been one of the scariest months for Magecart attack discoveries! Here’s the latest news on Magecart and other website attacks, with insights from our own Security Researcher!

Prometheus’s TSDB (TimeSeries DataBase) stores the recent data in the memory and the old data on persistent storage in the form of blocks. Each block has its own index to map the series to the actual chunks that contain the data samples. During Google Summer of Code 2019, I mentored Alec Wang throughout this work on lifting the size limitations of the index mentioned above. The work described below is up for review and should be merged soon.

In this article we’ll introduce the AWS Cloud Development Kit and explore how it can boost the productivity of your development and infrastructure teams. Infrastructure-as-Code is fast emerging as a de-facto standard for development organizations.

As explained on the Eclipse Che website, “Che brings your Kubernetes application into your development environment and provides an in-browser IDE, allowing you to code, build, test and run applications exactly as they run on production from any machine”. However when deployed in your production environment, those same applications can be monitored using observability tools to understand their performance to help inform future improvements.

OpsRamp was a sponsor of Gartner Symposium in Orlando last week, where CIOs and top executives gathered to share knowledge on the changing role of IT operations, DevOps adoption, and anything to do with cloud migration, monitoring, and management. Gartner analysts and researchers presented on several trends in the world of IT operations, and 10 of them offered key insights into the direction of our industry:

If you are looking for a way to gain a competitive edge, then focus on developing personalized content for your audience. Studies show that nearly 35 percent of consumers will make an unplanned purchase if they feel like a company has personalized their content. There are a number of ways to make content more personalized and helpful to the consumer.

Customers have recently requested more options for custom alert times and repeat alert times. We've implemented the requests and added some extra options. Read on to see the details...

No matter the type of business or industry you’re in, monitoring uptime, performance, and availability of your websites and web services is critical for timely error resolution and customer satisfaction. You put your business at risk if you’re operating with an outdated monitoring solution. In this post, we will give you an outline of what to consider when selecting an appropriate, and cost effective, monitoring solution.

Sensu Go has come a long way since its GA release in December 2019; in a little over 10 months, we've seen 14 minor version releases (5.1–5.14), including dozens of new features and product enhancements, and hundreds of bug fixes (see the changelog for more information). Here’s a high-level timeline of what we’ve accomplished...

It's hard to believe it's almost been a whole year since the Sensu Go general availability release on December 5, 2019. As we look forward to celebrating this important milestone, we are also reflecting on how the product has matured over the past year, and sharing some exciting changes that are just on the horizon (for a look at the upcoming roadmap, check out this post by Sensu Creator, Co-founder, and CTO, Sean Porter).