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A Look Inside GitLab's Public Dashboards

There are transparent companies – and then there’s GitLab. “GitLab is a ridiculously transparent company,” said Ben Kochie, a Staff Backend Engineer for Monitoring at GitLab. “When GitLab has a database outage, we live stream the recovery on YouTube.” GitLab has the same bare all approach to its metrics. “All of our Prometheus metrics are available on a public Grafana dashboard,” Kochie told the crowd gathered at GrafanaCon.

Cloudflare Outage Wreaks Havoc on Major Sites Around the World

Cloudflare, a company that provides CDN services to major websites around the world, recently experienced an outage that took down many of their customers’ sites. The outage began around 7AM EST, and many major companies, including web hosting company WP Engine and chat service Discord also experienced outages due to issues over at Cloudflare. Cloudflare has identified the source of the problem and implemented a temporary fix until the issues can be resolved permanently.

Mattermost security update 5.11.1 / 5.10.2 / 5.9.2 / 4.10.10 (ESR) released

We are releasing a recommended security update via Mattermost Team Edition 5.11.1, 5.10.2, 5.9.2 and 4.10.10 (ESR) and Mattermost Enterprise Edition 5.11.1, 5.10.2, 5.9.2 and 4.10.10 (ESR). This security update addresses a medium-level vulnerability discovered during a security research review by Zonduu.

Tackling API Gateway Lambda performance issues

API Gateway is a powerful tool for creating a coherent API out of a set of multiple disconnected remote function providers, and API Gateway with AWS Lambda, when used properly, can give you the capacity to create truly powerful serverless APIs. However, given that API Gateway is a layer between your requests and the code itself, there are latency concerns that API Gateway Lambdas may face that may not be present when working with other architectures.

3 key takeaways on Cloud SIEM from Gartner Security & Risk Management Conference 2019

Gartner has been a thought leader in the SIEM space for the last few years. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant is considered one of the top market research reports on SIEM’s capabilities and vendors. Very recently, I attended the 2019 Gartner Security & Risk Management Conference, and based on thousands of conversations Gartner has had with their clients, they have a good vantage point on the SIEM space this year.

Chatfuel - Build Messenger Chatbots the easy way

Companies are always looking for cutting-edge technologies that can revolutionize the ways of doing business. Customer service continues to remain an important element for businesses of all sizes. The latest technology that promises to improve customer service levels by leaps and bounds is automated bots in messaging apps like Facebook Messenger.

Cloud-based vs On-premises Monitoring: Similarities, Differences, and Best Practices

Reliability and user experience are no longer just “nice to have” features. Many companies provide similar services and competition is just a click away. Those with state-of-the-art offerings will be ahead of the pack and have more resources for ongoing improvements. Certainly, speed and uptime are not for free, but the good news is that even with a small budget, reliable applications can be realized.

5 Splunk Alternatives - Faster, Affordable Log Management Solutions

Learn the best Splunk alternative, what to look for in alternative solutions, and other factors like logging features, speed, ease of use, deployment, scalability, and cost.What Does Splunk Do?Since its first release in 2007, Splunk quickly became one of the leading log management solutions. Its focus on enterprise grade log analysis and security incident and event management (SIEM) made it the de facto choice for organizations generating large volumes of log files and machine data.

I manage my SaaS with Trello and Reminders

Ok, not completely true. I also use Stripe, Github, AWS, Heroku, Ghost, AppOptics, Intercom and Mailchimp. And some bookkeeping and tax tools. Don't forget the code editors! But! When I plan my day, I spend most of my time in Trello and Apple's stock Reminders app. I also use Numbers once a week or so. This post is turning out to be click bait. Read on, it's really not. In former jobs I went through probably every project management and productivity tool out there.

How I set up SSL with Let's Encrypt for my SaaS customers' dashboards

Recently I pushed a long overdue feature for Checkly: SSL for customers' public dashboards. This was kinda, sort of, totally missing when I launched and many customers asked for it. Setting up free SSL turned out to be fairly smooth because of Most principles explained here are totally transferable to whatever stack you are using. There are some pretty important gotcha's though, so let's dive in. Customers of Checkly can create public dashboards and host them on a custom domain.