Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Running Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana on Kubernetes with Helm

Kubernetes (or “K8s”) is an open-source container orchestration tool developed by Google. In this tutorial, we will be leveraging the power of Kubernetes to look at how we can overcome some of the operational challenges of working with the Elastic Stack.

[KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU recap] Getting some Thanos into Cortex while scaling Prometheus

Yesterday at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Grafana Labs software engineer Marco Pracucci, a Cortex and Thanos maintainer, teamed up with Thor Hansen, a software engineer at Hashicorp, to give a presentation called “Scaling Prometheus: How we got some Thanos into Cortex.” In their talk, the pair discussed a new storage engine they have built into Cortex, how it can reduce the Cortex operational cost without compromising scalability and performance, and lessons learned from running Cortex at s

Announcing Shared Scenarios to Promote a Culture of Reliability

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. Today, Gremlin is excited to announce the ability to share a Scenario across your entire organization. This allows you to build up a library of reliability exercises that are customized to your company’s applications and technology.

Elastic Security - Unified Protection for Everyone - Aug 13, 2020 Elastic meetup

Learn how the latest security capabilities in the Elastic Stack enable interactive exploration, incident management and automated analysis, as well as unsupervised machine learning to reduce false positives and spot anomalies — all at the speed and scale your security practitioners need to defend your organisation.

Splunk Redefines Application Performance Monitoring with SignalFx Microservices APM

Splunk has a new Application Performance Monitoring solution purpose-built for monitoring and observability in today’s app-driven world: SignalFx Microservices APM. Learn from Rick Fitz, SVP and GM of IT Markets, and Karthik Rau, Area GM for Application Management, about the new release of SignalFx Microservices APM and how it helps DevOps teams innovate faster, elevate customer experience, and future-proof applications — all while adopting cloud-native technologies and microservices architectures.

Achieving Major Efficiencies through Migration from OpenShift to Rancher

Sometimes technology partnerships are greater than the sum of their parts. That’s the case with two Swiss companies who have come together to deliver Kubernetes solutions to their customers. VSHN is Switzerland’s leading 24/7 cloud operations partner and first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider. amazee.io is an open source container hosting provider that offers flexible solutions built for speed, security and scalability.