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Optimize Value of Cloudtrail Logs With Infrequent Tier

A common scenario for log analytics is that many log events are high value for real time analytics, but there are also events that are low value for analytics, but account for a very large percentage of overall log volume. Often these same low value logs are used only for ad-hoc investigations from time to time or need to be retained for audit purposes.

Five Problems Your Current Network Monitoring Can't Solve but Network Observability Can

Public and hybrid cloud has led to a new era of agility, scale and performance, particularly for the networking that underlies enterprise applications. Yet, more than 80% say their network monitoring hasn’t kept up with major problems that need to be solved. A new approach is required – it’s network observability. Join Kentik co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman as he discusses how to reduce networking issues and risks while continuing to allow your organization to innovate at the speed of cloud.

The Peopleware Running Cloud DevOps

Early this year, we set out on a journey to onboard a new cloud engineering team at JFrog. Many can relate to the challenges involved with onboarding a new team, these were amplified even more during the pandemic. However this blog post is not about COVID-19, it is about sharing our experience of fine-tuning the onboarding path for this unbeatable group. TL/DR: What it takes to build and onboard a team of junior engineers into the existing JFrog Cloud engineering team.

Evolving in CloudOps Maturity? Investing in People and Teams Pays Off

CloudOps is on the up. This is in part due to the rapid acceleration of the shift to cloud that was caused by the pandemic. The shift allowed companies to innovate faster, enjoy greater flexibility and scalability, and become more cost efficient. Many organizations who rapidly adopted cloud or increased their usage now realize that they need to better manage their cloud investments in order to fully embrace these benefits.

Why You Should Stop Hoarding Metrics

Serverless lets you deploy applications far away in a data center of a cloud provider. This relieves you of the lion’s share of operational burdens. The more you buy into your cloud provider’s ecosystem, the less you have to do yourself: no more OS updates or database bugfix installations. But you still need to do some operation-related work on your own. For instance, monitoring your application to know what’s going on in that far away data center.

Dissecting DevOps - Code-to-Cloud Visibility: The Framework for DevOps Success

Recording from the DevOps.com webinar Code-To-Cloud Visibility where Splunker Chris Riley covers the key concepts to maintain visibility from the point a feature is defined to the point that feature runs in production. Learn about the practices of DevSecOps, Pipeline Analytics, and Observability. And why a Code-To-Cloud strategy is necessary to support and accelerate Cloud and DevOps transformation.