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How to Ensure Patch Compliance

Patch compliance indicates the number of compliant devices in your network. This means the number of computers that have been patched or remediated against security threats effectively. The distribution and deployment of patches accomplish nothing if your devices are not compliant. So to establish a good patch management strategy, it is important to pay attention to the effectiveness and reach of your patch deployment activities.

Getting over on-call anxiety

You've joined a company, or worked there a little while, and you've just now realised that you'll have to do on-call. You feel like you don't know much about how everything fits together, how are you supposed to fix it at 2am when you get paged? So you're a little nervous. Understandable. Here are a few tips to help you become less nervous.

BizTalk Migrator: What is new and what is coming (June 2021 Edition)

BizTalk Migrator tool is one of the latest releases of Microsoft, which helps to migrate your BizTalk solutions to Azure in a much simpler and automated way. So to keep you informed about the recent enhancements of the tool, the Azure Logic Apps team had a live remote session exclusively on that topic. Without any further delay, let us jump in as there are tons of updates are waiting.

AWS EC2 Service Discovery with HAProxy

AWS Auto Scaling groups are a powerful tool for creating scaling plans for your application. They let you dynamically create a group of EC2 instances that will maintain a consistent and predictable level of service. HAProxy’s Data Plane API adds a cloud-native method known as Service Discovery to add or remove these instances within a backend in your proxy as scaling events occur. In this article, we’ll take a look at the steps used to integrate this functionality into your workflow.

Collecting Actionable Bug Reports with Jira Service Management

This video takes a look at leveraging Jira Service Management linked with Jira Software to receive, route, and escalate bug reports for the appropriate response. Jira Service Management empowers everyone within an organization to easily report software bugs, and enables agents to easily create associated Jira issues. Most importantly, this capability does not require the need for an individual Jira Service Management license.

Get comprehensive monitoring for your Apache Kafka ecosystem instances quickly with Grafana Cloud

We are happy to announce that the Kafka integration is available for Grafana Cloud, our composable observability platform bringing together metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana. Apache Kafka is an open source distributed event streaming platform that provides high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

5 Key Considerations When Choosing a Log Management Solution

Purchase decisions often begin with a price check. Log management is no different. Evaluate your budget and narrow down the options that fit to choose the tool that gives you the most for what you pay. As always, cheaper is better as long as the platform doesn’t cut any corners. But with log management, there is a catch – not all tools are transparent with their pricing model.

Back to the (Monitoring) Basics | An IT Journey to Monitoring Glory: Session 1

Let’s start by going back to the basics of monitoring. Whether you’re new to monitoring or looking for a refresher, there’ll be something for everyone. The presenters will bring their experience monitoring small, to large, to hybrid, and beyond environments. Join the live chat to ask questions of the presenters and offer other attendees your own tips for ramping up on monitoring.

Onboarding Data in Splunk Security Analytics for AWS

Splunk Security Analytics for AWS’ new data onboarding wizard quickly takes you from subscribing to the service to visualizing your AWS environment. We’ll walk through the wizard in this video, and you’ll see how the new process can save you hours, days or even weeks when compared to traditional data onboarding processes.

Clojure microservices for JavaScript developers part 2

This series was co-written by Musa Barighzaai and Tyler Sullberg. In the previous post, we explored high-level differences between thinking in Clojure compared to thinking in JavaScript. We are now ready to start building our first Clojure microservice. The microservice we are going to build will be very simple. It will be an HTTP server that uses a Redis data store to count how many times a given IP address has pinged the /counter endpoint.