The future of enterprise IT stacks is the cloud. In fact, according to a 2019 Gartner post, when we say “cloud infrastructure,” 81% of people really mean multi-cloud. Considering the analyst took this survey prior to the pandemic, we can safely assume that the number of companies with multi-cloud stacks is probably higher than this. Companies choose a multi-cloud strategy for a lot of reasons, including making disaster recovery and migration easier.

This is a great question. The answer is yes. You can send Graylog alerts via email, text, or Slack, and now Discord. Yes Discord! The growth and use of Discord has transformed from just many Gaming users to businesses using it as a communication platform. Many businesses like: Gaming Developers, Publishers, Journalists, Community and Event Organizers use Discord. Discord lets Gamer Developers work in teams with each other on their projects.

The shift to remote work changed the way IT teams collaborate. Instead of walking over to a colleague’s desk, co-workers collaborate digitally. Looking forward, many companies will continue some form of remote work by taking a hybrid approach. Root cause analysis in IT will always require collaboration as teams look to improve service availability and prevent problems. Sitting in front of the same screen and looking at the same data makes it easy to discuss problems.

Every week we get many great questions through support, the community, social media, and our weekly demo. On Fridays, I like to share the most common questions and answers, tips, insights, a closer look at Graylog, interviews, etc. If you have any questions for me, drop them on Twitter, and I’ll do my best to fold them into upcoming Friday posts. Our handle is @graylog2.

Yes, there is the ability to silence or disable alerts in Graylog. There are times in IT environments where you know you are going to generate specific events in your network. As an example, you are patching servers, upgrading hardware components, and many other things. These types of activities are very common during maintenance windows.

With more people working from home, the threat landscape continues to change. Things change daily, and cybersecurity staff needs to change with them to protect information. Threat hunting techniques for an evolving landscape need to tie risk together with log data. Within your environment, there are a few things that you can do to prepare for effective threat hunting. Although none of these is a silver bullet, they can get you better prepared to investigate an alert.