Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most popular public cloud providers today. Over the years, AWS’ services have expanded from cloud computing to application development and security. To retain the reliability, availability, and performance of your AWS instances, an AWS cloud monitoring solution is a must. It’s critical for AWS monitoring tools to collect data from all parts of your AWS service, so that multi-point failure can be easily debugged.
New year, and time for the annual trends webinar. It’s the third time I have the honor to present it. As always, it takes a village to create this, and I’m thankful for all the people who chipped in. I’d like to highlight in particular Murray Grigo McMahon. His blog on data as an ecosystem, as well as great discussions, was a big source of inspiration, and will feature in the trends. This year, the title of the webinar is “The Dawn of Postmodern Analytics”.
2018 is rapidly drawing to a close. The winter chill is setting in and a festive spirit permeates the air. 2019 is hurtling towards us carrying the promise of new challenges and opportunities. However, there’s still a couple of weeks to get a few more massive data breaches in.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. As many of us ramp up to some kind of party frenzy over coming weeks, this timely article on how the youngsters and trendy ones are perhaps organising parties in a bad way could be worth absorbing. While it goes over my head (as according to my kids I’m a ‘miserable caveman’), hopefully it might help those of you more popular to get it right.
The holiday season isn’t just about overeating those cookies, binge watching movies, shopping the perfect gifts, and then wrapping and unwrapping gifts. Truth be told, holidays can be stressful and frantic not just for consumers but also for businesses. In fact, if you were in the North Pole (and believe in Santa like I do), you’d probably see Santa’s elves in a frenzy, hustling and bustling, putting up the lights, building the toys, and fixing that sleigh for Santa’s ride.
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re an Agent of Transformation ready to change the world. As your enterprise pivots towards AIOps, your team must accumulate the right skills to embrace digital transformation while innovating at scale.
As a company, we’re now over a decade old, and this year our founders Peter and Daniel won the prestigious EOY Entrepreneur(s) of the Year award (yay!). So it’s probably safe to say we’re not exactly a startup anymore. But we were. And it taught us some of the most important lessons we needed to know in order to get to where we are today. Here are the 11 biggest challenges we’ve faced on our journey so far — and what we’ve learned from them.
The data revolution is causing disruption everywhere. Even governments are feeling the effects. While the public sector may be less prepared for the impending changes, government has good reasons to embrace the data revolution.
By now you’ve seen the headlines and the hype proclaiming data as the new oil. The well-meaning intent of these proclamations is to cast data in the role of primary economic driver for the 21st century, just as oil was for the 20th century. As analogies go, it’s not too bad, but it doesn't really hit the mark.
Agents of Transformation recognize the importance of having the right tools at their fingertips to deliver better business and customer outcomes. See how AppDynamics is critical to their success.
April 7, 1969. This date marks the beginning of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC), which in its RFC 1 defined the Interface Message Processor (IMP) and laid the foundation for the computer world as we know it. What place do free server monitoring tools occupy in all of this?
We recently released Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) 2.0 which includes a number of features that give you and your team additional flexibility in managing and scaling your Elastic fleet. This blog post highlights three use cases that take advantage of these new capabilities.
In the world of data analytics, everything starts with data collection. This means that data needs to be ingested quickly, reliably, and it must be structured appropriately so it’s available immediately for analytical use. The ability to do exactly that, regardless of the size, shape, or speed of your data set, is why the Beats product suite is now the core data shipper for many popular use cases.
Epsagon helps troubleshoot serverless applications. Sentry helps monitor and fix crashes in real time. In this post, Raz Lotan, Software Engineer at Epsagon, uncovers how both tools blend to make the perfect workflow for debugging serverless applications.
We’re excited to announce the general availability of a brand new product: Foglight Container Management – Part of the Foglight for Performance Management suite. oglight Container Management provides real-time and historical analytics of containers and their hosts, across physical, virtual and cloud environments. It identifies performance bottlenecks, failed containers and issues within the orchestration layer.
Some products you build because you want to. Others you build because you have to. In the case of Bugfender’s brand-new plug-in for React Native, it was definitely the latter. Like the rest of the development world, we’ve come to rely on this cross-platform framework to build killer apps across Android, iOS and web. But that’s not why we’ve built our plug-in. No, it’s because our users were building their own versions!
Loki is a logging backend, optimized for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes. It's the latest 100% open source project from the team at Grafana Labs that's lets you search, visualize and explore your logs natively in Grafana.
Monitoring systems are the life-blood of modern cloud-native application environments. They provide crucial performance visibility that’s essential to successfully configure, deploy, and troubleshoot applications and infrastructure.
Opsgenie is a modern incident management platform for operating always on services, empowering Dev & Ops teams to plan for service disruptions and stay in control during incidents. In this video we cover Opsgenie's core functionality and take you through the Web UI.
Confused about much hyped DevOps? Curious if developer's monitoring tools are different than those made for operations? Wondering if there are hidden cloud tools in the Orion® Platform modules you already have? As always, SolarWinds Lab™ is here to help. In a SolarWinds Lab first, Head Geeks™ Thomas LaRock and Patrick Hubbard travel to Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent to interview technology pros and SolarWinds customers about how much or even *if* they’re happily using DevOps and cloud technologies in production.
Have you ever been on call when something had a temporary latency spike that was possibly just a network blip? Or maybe the service was unhappy and went into a GC spiral? Sometimes it just goes away on its own, or sometimes you restart the service and things start to look better. It’s all too common these days to feel like the systems we operate are feeling emotions like “unhappiness” rather than behaving deterministically.
BMW is a brand known for premiere driving experiences. But it’s also a software company operating within the internet of things (IoT). Having grown its digital services team from 70 to 180 people in three years, BMW is serious about elevating the personalized driving experience.
We caught up with IT leaders from today's most innovative brands to get their thoughts on how AI will transform IT operations. See what they have to say.
Azure Application Gateway provides application-level routing and load balancing services that let customers build scalable and highly-available web front ends in Azure. Traditional monitoring setup creates challenges as it involves defining parameters based on the expected behavior, setting up dashboards to visualize the data and configuring alerts and notifications. This approach has its limits and the additional layer of automation becomes necessary.
For a user-facing system like Apache Impala, bad performance and downtime can have serious negative impacts on your business. Given the complexity of the system and all the moving parts, troubleshooting can be time-consuming and overwhelming.
For Asana customers and their teams, it’s been a big year. From launching new products faster to transforming how work gets done, teams around the world have done extraordinary things this year with Asana. It’s been inspiring to see, and it’s why we keep working hard towards our mission of enabling all teams to work together effortlessly.
Recently, I had the privilege to be part of a four-person discussion panel at a security event in London where the topic was about incident response. The panel was hosted by another security professional, and over 50 professionals from the industry were present in the audience.
In the past I used to use the right tool for the right purpose. This led me to employ a lot of tools, and with most turning out to use subscription-based billing, increasing our costs much more that I would have hoped for. So, I adopted a new strategy: Use as few tools as possible, but use them as much as possible.
With Apache Ambari, our mission is to create and foster a 100% open source operations platform that allows teams to quickly deploy, secure, monitor and manage HDP, HDF, and our Hortonworks partner ecosystem products. Whether you’re a customer with 5 nodes or 5,000, Apache Ambari gives you the enterprise feature set and tools needed to manage your entire Big Data portfolio.
It happens every year. You’re driving to the store, reflecting on the fun Halloween party you went to last night. Wow, that Stranger Things demogorgon was out of this world, you chuckle to yourself. Then suddenly you see something that stops you in your tracks. You immediately stop laughing as you slam on the brakes. Eyes wide, you blink to make sure you’re not dreaming. There it is: a neighbor’s house decked out in Christmas decorations... on the day after Halloween.
It finally happened. At the start of DockerCon Europe and a week before KubeCon was set to take place in the U.S., researchers discovered the first major vulnerability within Kubernetes, the popular cloud container orchestration system.
Before I hop right in, it’s important to understand a bit about diabetes. Diabetes is what happens when your body cannot produce (type 1) or respond (type 2) to insulin effectively. The impact on the body is frequently quite severe — people who have difficulty controlling their blood sugar levels run the risk of losing feeling in their fingers and/or toes or even going into a coma if their blood sugar is either too high or too low.
If you’re unfamiliar with mobile forms they are digital forms that can be filled out on tablets and phones. These mobile forms, which can look identical to your existing paper construction documents, help teams work safer and more efficiently.
To stay competitive, companies who want to run an agile business need log analysis to navigate the complex world of Big Data in search of actionable insight. However, scouring through the apparently boundless data lakes to find meaningful info means treading troubled waters when appropriate tools are not employed. Best case scenario, data amounts to terabytes (hence the name “Big Data”), if not petabytes.
In case you missed it, Sensu Go is here! And, as I wrote about previously, one of the hurdles with migrating workloads from the original version of Sensu to Sensu Go are the changes in the internal event data structure. The existing handlers and mutators in the community maintained Sensu Plugins collection might not work as expected in Sensu Go because of these event data model changes. But friends, I’m here to tell you that we’ve got this problem licked.
