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How to Monitor Your Kubernetes Cluster: Prometheus vs Datadog

So you’ve got a shiny new Kubernetes cluster up and it’s a dream. Deploying code is easy, scaling is a breeze, and you’ve never felt so efficient. However, despite claims that Kubernetes is self-healing, there’s still a nagging feeling in the back of your mind that wants to make sure your cluster is running smoothly. Just like any other tool, you need a monitoring solution to give you insight into Kubernetes.

Filter Company Allowed 3.4 Million Customers to Shop on Hacked Site

Filters Fast knowingly allowed approximately 3.4 Million customers to shop on their compromised website for over 5 months, in a year-long data breach. FiltersFast.com sells a variety of home filtration products. The company is based in North Carolina, USA, and according to SimilarWeb, the company averages approximately 574,190 website visitors each month.

Engineer Intelligent Alerting for Efficient Network Monitoring

Imagine a scenario where your Network Monitoring team has a group of very talented, organized, and focused technicians. Close to half of them are engaged in monitoring the system almost throughout the day. They can take care of the issues and problems as soon as they arise, and you are never facing any downtime. This is an ideal case scenario, right?

Open Source Grafana Tutorial: Getting Started

Open source grafana is one of the most popular OSS UI for metrics and infrastructure monitoring today. Capable of ingesting metrics from the most popular time series databases, it’s an indispensable tool in modern DevOps. This OSS grafana tutorial will go over installation, configuration, queries, and initial metrics shipping. Open source grafana is the equivalent of what Kibana is for logs (for more, see Grafana vs. Kibana).

Vulnerability assessment | ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus

ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus is a prioritization driven threat and vulnerability management solution for enterprises with built-in remediation. This video covers how you can utilize Vulnerability Manager Plus to discover vulnerabilities, put them in context to understand their impact and urgency, and swiftly remediate the imminent vulnerabilities with a built-in patching workflow.

Best Certifications for IT Professional Careers

The job market for IT professionals right now is challenging. Whether you’re seeking your first job in IT or looking to further your career into a more pronounced and distinguished role, certifications serve as a way to separate from the crowd of applicants. Certifications show a functional level of proficiency, often making them more valuable than college degrees in certain entry-level positions, and just as valuable as years of experience in more established roles.

How to solve network issues faster than ever with Auvik

Getting to the bottom of a network issue is a race against the clock. But with Auvik, time is on your side. Learn how having network topology, performance metrics, traffic analytics, and centralized logs all in one convenient dashboard can help you dramatically shrink resolution times on network issues and keep your end users connected.

3 tips to improve your Grafana dashboard design

Every Grafana user is a dashboard designer. The Grafana community gladly shares their dashboards, so there’s tons of inspiration available. Chances are you’ve downloaded some community dashboards and tweaked them in search of patterns that work for you. But if you haven’t found them, you’re not alone! In my Aug. 27 webinar, “A beginner’s guide to dashboard design,” I’ll cover the basics of good dashboard design.