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9 Best Practices for Application Logging that You Must Know

Have you ever glanced at your logs and wondered why they don't make sense? Perhaps you've misused your log levels, and now every log is labelled "Error." Alternatively, your logs may fail to provide clear information about what went wrong, or they may divulge valuable data that hackers may exploit. It is possible to resolve these issues!!!

Risk Mitigation Strategies for Tcp/IP Vulnerabilities in OT

JFrog in collaboration with Forescout Research Labs recently released the fourth study from Project Memoria - the industry’s most comprehensive study of TCP/IP vulnerabilities. INFRA:HALT covers 14 vulnerabilities affecting the popular closed source TCP/IP stack NicheStack. These vulnerabilities can cause Denial of Service or Remote Code Execution, allowing attackers to take targeted OT and ICS devices offline or take control of them.
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Announcing: Bitbucket for APM

Raygun's latest integration with Bitbucket gives you code-level insights into your traces, directly in APM. Today, Raygun expands its suite of integrations for APM, introducing the latest addition - Bitbucket. Once your Raygun account is integrated with Bitbucket, you'll be able to see method source code pulled directly from your repository when inspecting a method in APM. If this sounds interesting to you but you use GitHub instead of Bitbucket, don't worry, we've got you covered for that too. Gain greater context into code execution and get to the root cause of slow performance, faster.

Assign Read-Only Access to Users in Logz.io

Cloud monitoring and observability can involve all kinds of stakeholders. From DevOps engineers, to site reliability engineers, to Software Engineers, there are many reasons today’s technical roles would want to see exactly what is happening in production, and why specific events are happening. However, does that mean you’d want everyone in the company to access all of the data?

Root cause analysis using Metric Correlations

As complexity of systems and applications continue to evolve and change, the number of metrics that need to be monitored grows in parallel. Whether you’re on a DevOps team, an SRE, or a developer building the code yourself, many of these components may be fragmented across your infrastructure, making it increasingly difficult to identify the root cause when experiencing downtime or abnormal behavior.

Logging Agents Vs Log Libraries

Log management has been around for a long time, but how we manage our logs has changed profoundly over the years. For effective log management, there are times when you may have to trade off the new for the old, and vice versa. A clear understanding of log agents and log libraries will help assess what works best for different applications and infrastructures.

How Uptime.com Can Help Troubleshoot a Server Outage

Everyone has heard about the 3 AM wakeup call, but what about those troublesome issues that dig at your team and eat away at your SLA hours? Hard-to-diagnose issues can strike at any time. They leach from your team, hurt morale, impede the customer experience… it’s just a whole mess. These kinds of incidents are ones that test what “response” really means to your organization, as fixing them is not always a simple task. Something has gone wrong.

The Confident Commit ep. 10 | Observability improving speed and reliability with Ben Sigelman

Rob sits down with Lightstep CEO, Ben Sigelman to discuss observability and how it connects with delivering change with confidence. Get answers to questions like: Watch, learn, and leave us a comment with your thoughts, questions, or ideas for future podcast episodes. And don't forget to Like and Subscribe to The Confident Commit Podcast playlist for alerts to new episodes published biweekly. The Confident Commit: A podcast for developers, engineering managers, and business leaders alike to join in the conversation on how to deliver software better and faster.