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Auvik and Cherwell Present: Processes for Managing Your Network

In this webinar, Auvik’s Technology Advocate Steve Petryschuk and Cherwell’s Principal Solution Consultant Ryan Counts walk you through a few critical steps you can take to make network operations more manageable. You’ll learn which two process factors will help you go from reactive to proactive, how to assess your current network management methods using a simple framework, and when to incorporate tools to automate processes.

Kubernetes Master Class - Addressing the Amount of Pull Requests in Rancher

In this master class Support Engineer Matthew Mattox will address the new Docker Hub limits and how to reduce the number of pull requests made against Docker Hub. We will go over different options including building a full registry mirror, and using the standard registry, including the required maintenance tasks, to use a pull-through-cache registry. We will also cover some Enterprise solutions (e.g. JFrog) along with how to reduce the number of pulls while using Docker Hub.

SLF4J Tutorial: Example of How to Configure It for Logging Java Applications

Logging is a crucial part of the observability of your Java applications. Combined with metrics and traces gives full observability into the application behavior and is invaluable when troubleshooting. Logs, combined with metrics shortens the time needed to find the root cause and allows for quick and efficient resolutions of problems.

High Availability and etcd management in K3s Kubernetes - Darren Shepherd

Darren Shepherd, K3s creator, talks through the mechanics of embedded etcd in K3s and how it allows for highly-available cluster setups. Taken from from his talk "K3s Internals: The Crazy Things We Do To Make k8s Simple". Get free credit to try the world’s first K3s-powered, managed Kubernetes service.

Guaranteeing Microsoft 365 Service Delivery: When the SLA Becomes an XLA

Microsoft 365 has become the new ‘virtual office’ and organizations are looking to ensure a consistent user experience, especially for employees working remotely. Watch this webinar to find out new approaches to manage your Microsoft 365 service delivery.

5 Things to Know About the Orion Platform Database Today

1. It’s the Back End for 14 Products and Connectors The full list is published here. The key is, a lot of products all leverage this single database, though not every customer runs every product. Over 20 years, the Orion Platform has evolved into, well, a pickup truck. It’s a utility vehicle, doing the best job it can for everyone who needs a ride. As such, this pickup truck works great most of the time.

Using the Icinga Web API

Unfortunately, there is little to no documentation for using the Icinga Web API to perform monitoring actions such as scheduling downtimes. But it’s a simple thing and I’ll give you a quick example of how to do it. Using the Icinga Web API instead of the Icinga API gives you the advantages of the permission and restriction system, various authentication methods and auditing.

Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 4 - How is this Pudding Connected?

I thought my last blog, Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 3 - Tying Up Loose Ends, about fraud detection using link analysis would be the end of this topic for now. Surprise, this is part 4 of visual link analysis. Previously (for those who need a refresher) I wanted to use Splunk Cloud to show me all the links in my data in my really big data set. I wanted to see all the fraud rings that I didn’t know about. I was happy with my success in using link analysis for fraud detection.

Splunking AWS ECS And Fargate Part 3: Sending Fargate Logs To Splunk

Welcome to part 3 of the blog series where we go through how to forward container logs from Amazon ECS and Fargate to Splunk. In part 1, Splunking AWS ECS Part 1: Setting Up AWS And Splunk, we focused on understanding what ECS and Fargate are, along with how to get AWS and Splunk ready for log routing to Splunk’s Data-to-Everything Platform.