The cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, GitOps… the last five years have seen a huge transformation in how organizations are architecting and shipping applications. It’s hard to keep up with the pace and learn all of this new tech! Nearly 55% of respondents to Canonical’s 2021 Kubernetes and cloud native operations report highlighted how the lack of sufficient in-house skills and people power is the biggest challenge that Kubernetes brings to businesses.

Sysdig maintainers are thrilled to announce the latest release of our beloved OSS tool for analyzing and/or recording the activity of processes and containers on a Linux system. You can find the full CHANGELOG in the GitHub repository, but here are some highlighted features: Note: The 0.29.1 has been released with a bug fix shortly after we started to write this post.

Prometheus 2.35 was released last month, focusing on a better integration with cloud providers. It also improved the service discovery, performance, and resources usage. One key change was the migration to Go v1.18. It has brought some changes in the support for TLS 1.0, 1.1, and certificates signed with the SHA1 hash function. Welcome to this first edition of What’s new in Prometheus. We love Prometheus, the de-facto open source standard monitoring tool!

In this article, you’ll learn how to Monitor Consul with Prometheus. Also, troubleshoot Consul control plane with Prometheus from scratch, following Consul’s docs monitoring recommendations. Also, you’ll find out how to troubleshoot the most common Consul issues.

Welcome to another iteration of What’s New in Sysdig in 2022! Before starting, once again Happy Easter, Happy Passover, Happy Rama Navami, and Ramadan Mubarak! In general, happy spring break, and we hope you recovered from the chocolate egg drop.

Kubernetes pod pending is ubiquitous in every cluster, even in different levels of maturity. If you ask any random DevOps engineer using Kubernetes to identify the most common error that torments their nightmares, a deployment with pending pods is near the top of their list (maybe only second to CrashLoopBackOff). Trying to push an update and seeing it stuck can make DevOps nervous.

Kubernetes 1.24 is about to be released, and it comes packed with novelties! Where do we begin? Update: Kubernetes 1.24 release date has been moved to May 3rd(from April 19th). This release brings 46 enhancements, on par with the 45 in Kubernetes 1.23, and the 56 in Kubernetes 1.22. Of those 46 enhancements, 13 are graduating to Stable, 14 are existing features that keep improving, 13 are completely new, and 6 are deprecated features.

Welcome to another iteration of What’s New in Sysdig in 2022! The “What’s new in Sysdig” blog has fallen to me, Jason Donahue, for the month of March! I am a Solutions Engineer based in New Jersey and a member of the Sysdig US East Enterprise team since September, 2021. I have worn many hats in my career, from Networking to Systems Administration to Software Engineer.

In this article, you’ll learn how Starlink works in a domestic environment, and how to monitor Starlink connection with Prometheus. SpaceX’s Starlink uses satellites in low-earth orbit to provide high-speed Internet services to most of the planet. During the beta, Starlink expects users to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms. It’s also expected that there will be brief periods of no connectivity at all.