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What is Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)?

In this three-part series, we will take a hard look at Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service: how it helps organizations run Kubernetes on AWS, what insights can be gained in EKS and how it’s monitored, and finally, how organizations can get the most out of EKS with the help of Sumo Logic. For the first installment, we’ll learn how it works and how organizations can get started with Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service.

InfluxDB 2.0 Open Source Beta Released

Today we announce InfluxDB 2.0 Open Source’s official move to Beta. This represents a huge step forward from where we started out nearly a year ago and is one step closer to general availability. You can download the latest version on our downloads page. Since we announced the first Alpha for InfluxDB 2.0 back in January ‘19, we have been working hard to build out and harden InfluxDB 2.0’s capabilities.

How to Set Up Graylog GeoIP Configuration

Gathering logs that contain IP addresses are quite common across your infrastructure. Your firewalls, web servers, wireless infrastructure and endpoints can contain IP addresses outside your organization. Having additional data on those logs that gives you the Geolocation of the IP address helps in your investigations and understanding of your traffic patterns. For Example, if you can see logs on a World Map, you know if you are communicating to a country you don’t normally talk to.

The Key Principles of a Successful Time Series Forecasting System for Business

An emerging field of data science uses time series metrics to develop an educated estimate of future developments in business such as revenue, sales, and demand for resources and product deliverables. A forecast is based on historical data of a given metric plus other relevant factors. Accurate forecasts are an important aspect of corporate planning.

The ITOA SaaS Platform for Capital Market Data Visualization

If money makes the world go round, then technology is becoming its engine. Financial services, in particular, have widely adopted big data technologies and analytics to inform better investment decisions. The past decade has seen the rise of digital investment platforms. Financial institutions — facing increasing competition, regulatory constraints and customer needs — are seeking ways to leverage technology to gain efficiency and competitive advantage.

The Top 10 Anomalies of the Last Decade

As a company known for our anomaly detection, we know a thing or two about spotting irregularities. So as we reached the end of 2019, we couldn’t help but think back on the 2010s and the anomalies that shook the world. Once we got to listing them, it really became tough to pick just 10. Ultimately, after much debate, we ranked them based on their impact, newsworthiness and how utterly unexpected they were.

What Are the Differences Between On-premises and Cloud-based Log Management?

Cloud computing has changed the way we think about software, and opened up many new possibilities in both business and software development. Log management tools have also been affected by this, which begs the question – what are the pros and cons of cloud log management when compared to on-premises solutions? There are several key things you should consider before opting for either one, so here is a brief overview of the most important aspects that will help you make an informed decision.

Log Forensics: The Basics of Finding Intel in Your Logs

Today’s post covers yet another log-related concept: log forensics. What’s this, and why should your organization care about it? Well, this is a topic related to logs, which are ubiquitous in the technology field. An IT organization that doesn’t generate many MBs worth of logs each day would be a rare occurrence nowadays. Even though logs are omnipresent, specific terms might not be so well-known. Not long ago, we covered log analytics, and today it’s log forensics time.