The conference started off with a heady fulfilling talk from John Allspaw about the impact of human performance in automatable systems. Wrapping the crux of his argument around the 3 Mile Island nuclear disaster, he drew parallels to how automation in software suffers from those same issues and how the automators should attack these problems.
Now that you have your brand new Graylog instance up and collecting your organization’s logs, all the data is quickly searchable and available for troubleshooting any issues as they arise. Just as easy as it is for you to use, an attacker with access to the logs now has a much simpler job of understanding your environment and seeing all of your data. You need to make sure you are doing all the due diligence you can to protect the data.
We’re excited to announce a new feature that enables you to install updates to your Datadog Agent integrations as soon as they are released. That means that you can make use of new or updated integrations right away, without waiting for a full release of the Datadog Agent.
The ELK Stack, which traditionally consisted of three main components — Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, has long departed from this composition and can now also be used in conjunction with a fourth element called “Beats” — a family of log shippers for different use cases. It is this departure that has led to the stack being renamed as the Elastic Stack.
