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The Core Enterprise Security Team Has Been Very Busy

Okay... and we’re back! Yes, there’s been a bit of a hiatus since you’ve heard from us in Core Security, but that’s not because we haven’t been busy. In fact, we’ve released a number of enhancements for both the security and user administration experiences of Splunk Enterprise. Going forward, we’ll be a bit more visible bringing you details on these enhancements.

Splunk Now Top Contributor to OpenTelemetry

Editor’s note: This post is a collaboration between Tim Tully, Splunk CTO, and Spiros Xanthos, Splunk’s vice president of product management for observability and IT Ops and previously the founder and CEO of Omnition. My love for the open-source software movement began with Linux in the ’90s and grew during my time at Yahoo! in the early days of Hadoop.

Building Images Faster and Better With Multi-Stage Builds

There is no doubt about the fact that Docker makes it very easy to deploy multiple applications on a single box. Be it different versions of the same tool, different applications with different version dependencies - Docker has you covered. But then nothing comes free. This flexibility comes with some problems - like high disk usage and large images. With Docker, you have to be careful about writing your Dockerfile efficiently in order to reduce the image size and also improve the build times.

New monitoring agent in Go: Glouton

Bleemeo announces the General Availability of the new monitoring agent written in Go. This agent is the successor of the previous agent written in Python. All good aspects have been kept: Open Source, easy to deploy, and to use, available as a package for main Linux distributions: Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS/RedHat, available for Windows and available as a container.

Nailing ELK at Scale: A Real World Success Story from Holler

Ever use stickers or GIFs to make your texts, messages, or DMs more interesting? If yes, you’ve probably used Holler – a messaging tool that makes digital conversations come to life. The engineers at Holler have the daunting task of monitoring the performance and reliability of a service used by millions of people around the globe on a daily basis. Like many modern DevOps teams, they chose the ELK Stack to manage and analyze their log data. Hear from Daniel Seravalli, a Lead Engineer at Holler, on their story about grappling with the complexities of managing their ELK Stack at scale.

Enhanced Data Analysis and Insights with Catchpoint and Splunk

Digital experience monitoring is only effective if incidents are detected immediately and the data aids in quick root cause analysis and resolution. To track the availability, reachability, performance, and reliability of each component in the application delivery chain, different teams within an organization, use multiple tools. Each of these tools generate huge volumes of data that can make it difficult to gain any meaningful insight or even to correlate relevant KPIs.

What are Some of the Perks Offered by Pandora FMS Network Mapper?

When it comes to mapping your network, having the right tools at your disposal can make things much easier, which is why Pandora FMS offers an extensive network mapper, so you can always keep track of your network. Our network mapping tool offers a comprehensive number of features. Our software enables you to mix network monitoring solutions with server monitoring. Here we’re going to discuss some of the biggest perks offered by our network mapper!