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A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Modern Dashboards on the Orion Platform - SolarWinds Lab #93

Turning data into information and information into decisions are some of the most common challenges facing any monitoring professional. A clean, easy-to-interpret dashboard can go a long way in turning those raw numbers into actionable decisions. In this heavily requested follow-up episode, Kevin M. Sparenberg, technical content manager for THWACK®, presents a step-by-step build for modern dashboards.

Setting Up AppSignal Monitoring for a Ruby on Rails Application

As we’re doing our best to make monitoring easy, we’ve wanted to make more content that would really show and not just tell you how easy it is to set up monitoring with AppSignal. We’ve been collaborating with Leigh Hallday on making this video for you that will show you everything you need to know about the setup process. We’ll be posting more videos like this on our YouTube channel, so you should subscribe to it if you’d like to get notifications about future videos.

Preventing malicious use of Weave Scope

Intezer and Microsoft reported on Sept. 9 that TeamTNT hackers are deploying Weave Scope in compromised systems as an auxiliary tool in their intrusions. Weave Scope is a legitimate and powerful tool to manage server infrastructure that, once deployed, makes it easy to control all resources. In this article, we will describe how this tool can be used maliciously, and how to add specific checks in your security set up to look for it.

How to make an ROI calculator and impress finance (an engineer's guide to ROI)

Get started with Gremlin's Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. Think back to the last time you wanted to purchase software for your organization. The software solves real problems and makes your team’s life easier. Then, finance delays or rejects your proposal. What’s going on?

PagerTree Forms Integration

Today, we are excited to announce a new integration - PagerTree Forms! PagerTree Forms are simple (PagerTree hosted) forms that can be made public so your customers can quickly create an alert outside the PagerTree ecosystem. PagerTree Forms also support custom CNAMES so you can host them on your own domain (ex: https://support.example.com). The CNAME option is secured via HTTPS using self signed Let’s Encrypt certificates.

Getting Up and Running with Calico for Windows

Calico is the only cross-platform CNI and networking and network security policy engine available today. It currently powers more than 150,000 known clusters across millions of nodes worldwide. Calico is also unique in supporting multiple dataplanes: Standard Linux, eBPF, and Windows HNS. Many organizations have .NET and Windows workloads that they have or eventually will modernize and deploy to Kubernetes. However, this may be uncharted territory for teams that are using Windows. This session is intended to inform and ease your adoption of Kubernetes on the Windows platform.

Illuminate 2020 Keynote: Christian Beedgen

Watch as Christian Beedgen, Co-Founder & CTO of Sumo Logic shares his thoughts and musings on Sumo Logic’s ten year anniversary, and some great tech talk, including a demonstration of our end-to-end observability solution for DevSecOps. This keynote session was part of Sumo Logic’s 4th annual Illuminate user conference.