Collect and Analyze Kafka JMX Metrics with Logz io
In this webinar, Noni Peri, our Production Team Lead at Logz.io, discussed how to monitor Kafka’s performance and reliability by collecting and analyzing its JMX metrics with Logz.io
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What 700+ IT Operations Pros Learned about Improving the Remote Work Digital Experience
Missed our webinar on remote work digital experience? Watch the recording here. It’s no secret that many IT departments are scrambling to support hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of new remote workers. Last week over 700 IT Operations leaders and professionals registered for our Remote Work digital experience webinar because right now these people are facing unprecedented pressure to keep their companies productive and their employees free of technology disruptions.
Visualizing COVID-19 with Elastic
There are various publicly available data-sources that we may leverage to visualize the COVID-19 pandemic. We will use the materials created by SiScale (https://www.siscale.com/) as they have composed a rather elegant means of ingesting COVID-19 data. This document is designed to be an instructional guide on how to implement this solution locally or with the Elastic Cloud. We will first configure the necessary components, ingest the data source, then show how to create the additional Machine Learning jobs as well as creating a Canvas dashboard.
How to Setup StatsD using MetricFire
This is a tutorial on setting up statsD using MetricFire.
IT Service Management Trends to Watch Out for in 2020
ITSM is a hot topic for people who manage IT infrastructure. There are new developments coming out every few months that tend to show where the industry is headed. ‘Automation’ has been all the craze for the past few years, yet it is still quite relevant even today. Then there is ‘digital transformation’, another significant industry jargon that gets thrown around a lot. Last year was all about the release of ‘ITIL V4’ – a major step towards the future.
Benefits of Using Sumo Logic
This microlearning video explains why using Sumo Logic is beneficial to the businesses building, running, and securing modern applications.
How to effectively manage your AWS costs
Often, when companies are new to Amazon Web Services (AWS), they aren’t focused much on the cost. They’re more likely fixated on taking advantage of the scalability and flexibility offered by the cloud. As a company’s AWS cloud infrastructure grows, it will find that its cloud costs grow as well. As the number of AWS accounts increases over time, there’s a higher chance of overspending on unnecessary cloud resources.
Monitoring critical business applications while working remotely
With a huge number of employees around the globe working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, delivering uninterrupted business services to customers has become a major challenge. This requires strict monitoring of all critical business applications in order to accommodate an increased amount of requests, which can cause a critical downtime if not monitored appropriately.
Five worthy reads: Keeping a close eye on cybersecurity while working remotely
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we highlight the importance of creating and enforcing a solid cybersecurity strategy for employees who work remotely.
Rancher 2.4 Enhances Security with CIS Benchmark Scanning
Editor’s note: Rancher Labs’ William Jimenez provides an introduction to CIS Scan. Then Saiyam Pathak takes over with a hands-on demo. Cluster security is critical to any successful Kubernetes strategy. Recent research by AimPoint revealed that 44 percent of respondents had delayed application production due to security concerns around Kubernetes containers. Yet securing Kubernetes is a complex machine with many moving parts, integrations and knobs and levers.