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AWS GuardDuty Monitoring with Logz.io Security Analytics and the ELK Stack

Last month, we announced Logz.io Security Analytics — a security app built on top of the ELK Stack, offering out-of-the-box security features such as threat intelligence, correlation, and premade integrations and dashboards. In this article, I’d like to show an example of using both the ELK Stack and Logz.io Security Analytics to secure an AWS environment.

Datadog's AWS re:Invent 2018 guide

Each November, AWS re:Invent draws thousands of AWS staff, partners, and users to Las Vegas for an intense week featuring all things AWS and AWS-related. As always, Datadog will be there and we’d love to meet you in person. Our engineers are excited to show off the new features they’ve been building and to answer your monitoring questions!

Ryan Betts [InfluxData] | Lessons and Observations Scaling a Time Series Database | InfluxDays 2018

InfluxData builds a Time Series Platform primarily deployed for DevOps and IoT monitoring. This talk provides several lessons learned while scaling the platform across a large number of deployments—from single server open source instances to highly available high-throughput clusters.

Tim Hall [InfluxData] | Monitoring InfluxEnterprise | InfluxDays 2018

You use InfluxData to monitor the performance of your infrastructure and apps—so it is equally important to keep your InfluxEnterprise instance up and running. Tim Hall, InfluxData VP of Products, will outline why and how you can monitor InfluxEnterprise with InfluxDB.

Gartner positions SCOM as a top APM tool

SCOM surged forward as an application performance management (APM) tool this summer. It received a Customers’ Choice 2018 award from Gartner in the APM category. SCOM shared the honour with AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic and Solarwinds. I see you thinking – how did this happen? Well, more than 50 reviewers gave SCOM an average rating of 4.2, which means it met Gartner’s criteria to win the award.

Migrating to AWS Without Losing (Too Much) Sleep

As my fellow CIOs are well aware, the rapid changes to our digital economy can seem daunting. Despite the challenges of our digital world, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchisor, executed a significant digital transformation requiring change from our North American hotel owners that ultimately enabled them to provide better service to their guests.

Icinga 2.10.2 bugfix release

With the TLS connection improvements there was also another bug with hanging TLS connections unveiled. Turns out, this has been sitting there since 2.8.2 and not only affects JSON-RPC cluster connections but also HTTP request sessions, as being used inside the Director kickstart wizard for example. Tom is working on a fix for Director 1.6 in order to support older Icinga 2 versions too.

When Every Minute Matters

Human trafficking is a $150 billion dollar criminal industry that denies freedom to over 40 million people globally—and it happens in every country in the world. Polaris is an organization dedicated to ending human trafficking and restoring freedom to survivors. For over a decade, Polaris has operated the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline.

Honeycomb and Rookout: An Integration That Finds the Dots to Connect

You probably know that Honeycomb is the most flexible observability tool around. Its powerful high-cardinality search makes working with real raw data quick and easy. But as you may have learned through hard experience, fetching those dots can still be quite a challenge.

Exploring Nordcloud's Promise to Deliver 100 Percent Alert-Based Security Operations to Customers

We are a multi-cloud managed services provider (MSP) that works strictly with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. We’ve been working with enterprise public cloud leaders in Europe since 2012 and our goal is to provide fully managed public cloud transformation to our customers.