What is whitebox monitoring? Why do we monitor our systems? What is the Azure Monitor plugin and how can I use it to monitor my Azure resources? Recently, I spoke at Swetugg 2018, a .NET conference held in Stockholm, Sweden to answer these questions. In this video you’ll learn some basic monitoring principles, some of the tools we use to monitor our systems, and get an inside look at the new Azure Monitor plugin for Grafana.

Central storage is vitally important in log management. Just as storing and processing logs into lumber is done in one place, a sawmill, a central repository makes it cheaper and more efficient to process event logs in one location. Moving between multiple locations to process logs can decrease performance. To continue the analogy, once boards are cut at a sawmill, a tool such as a wood jointer smoothes out the rough edges of the boards and readies them for use in making beautiful things.

We are happy to inform our users that a new Docker logging plugin is available on the Docker Store! Using this plugin, users can easily ship container logs directly to Logz.io, and enjoy the following benefits.

Serverless apps are growing in popularity, thanks to tools like AWS API Gateway and Lambda, and a growing number of powerful frameworks that simplify development and deployment. Complex applications are still complex, however, and regardless of your platform you’ll still need to think about observability.

Today we are releasing Graylog v2.4.5 to fix a few bugs. We have also fixed an Elasticsearch credentials issue found by Defence Logic Limited - thanks for finding this and responsibly disclosing it.

This was a frequent request we were hearing from many customers: "How can I analyze my data with Python?" The Python Data Science toolchain (Jupyter/NumPy/pandas) offers a wide spectrum of advanced data analytics capabilities. Therefore, seamless integration with this environment is important for our customers who want to make use of those tools.

The day has finally arrived; GDPR is officially in effect! These new policies are meant to provide more transparency about the data companies collect on users, and how that data is used. I for one am just excited that the onslaught of "We’ve updated our privacy policy" emails arriving in my pummeled inbox is nearing its end.