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Elasticsearch Performance Tuning - Index Design

You’ve created the perfect design for your indices and they are happily churning along. However, in the future, you may need to reconsider your initial design. Maybe you want to improve performance, change sharding settings, adjust for growth. Whatever the reason, Elasticsearch is flexible and allows you to change index settings to improve your Elasticsearch Performance Tuning. Let’s see how to do that!

Using Log Data to Prevent Lambda Cold Starts

AWS Lambda enables you to run serverless functions in the AWS cloud, by manually triggering functions or by creating trigger events. To ensure your Lambda functions are running smoothly, you can monitor metrics that measure performance, invocations, and concurrencies. However, even if you continuously monitor, once in a while you are going to run into what’s termed a Lamba cold start. There are various ways to prevent AWS Lambda cold starts.

Observability at The Edge with Fastly and Datadog

You use CDNs because they allow you to serve content as quickly and reliably as possible. But how well are your systems performing? How securely are you moving data—and how do you know which parts of your environment are slowing you down? Learn how to improve end user experiences, accelerate development, and take full advantage of edge computing in this joint webinar.

Driving Service Reliability Through Autoscaling Workloads on OpenShift

In this webinar, Ara Pulido, Technical Evangelist at Datadog, will demonstrate how to autoscale your application workloads on OpenShift. You will learn frameworks for how to identify their key work and resource metrics; as well as how to use them to drive horizontal and vertical pod autoscaling so that you can maximize efficiency, while ensuring service reliability.

Cloud Operations

Are you currently operating on a hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud architecture and wanting to standardize SLO’s, observability, and alerting across your platforms? In this video, Yuri Grinshteyn shows you common architecture patterns for a hybrid observability approach. Watch to learn how you can standardize observability across multiple cloud providers!

Overcoming VPN bandwidth and capacity complications using Firewall Analyzer

As companies move towards a flexible, remote work environment, the demand for VPN services has increased considerably. This need to ramp up VPN infrastructures in such a short time comes with its fair share of operational problems and security concerns. Over purchasing VPN capacity would put a dent in the IT budget while under purchasing would result in loss of productivity.

Leveraging IoT to target pain points in the healthcare industry

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. Most healthcare facilities already use the Internet of Things (I0T) to make their environment a more efficient and safer place, and this week, we show you how IoT is revolutionizing the healthcare industry. As the world’s population grows, so does the need for quality medical assistance and healthcare.

Michael DeSa [InfluxData] | Monitoring Methodologies

The objective of this workshop will be to introduce participants to the RED and USE monitoring methodologies. We will compare and contrast the two methodologies. Care will be taken to highlight best practices associated with each methodology. The workshop will culminate in participants designing schema and using flux to create relevant visualizations of their data.

PagerDuty Atlassian Jira Software Server and Data Center Integration V4 How-To Video

Learn how to integrate (install/configure) the PagerDuty Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center Integration V4 and test the integration workflow. Enjoy a suite of capabilities that allows users to coordinate an incident response right from a Jira issue by using the PagerDuty sidebar. Drive synchronization and collaboration between teams with complex workflows. Map users and accounts across PagerDuty and Jira Server and Data Center.