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What is LDAP and how does it work?

As corporations grow, the need to organize user data and assets into a hierarchical structure becomes critical to to simplify storage access of those assets. LDAP enables organizations to store, manage, and secure information about the organization, its users, and assets. In this guide, we’ll explain what LDAP is, its uses, and how it works.

Take the 2021 State of DevOps Survey, be part of our 10-year history

Take the 2021 State of DevOps Survey here. This year marks the 10-year anniversary of our industry-defining State of DevOps research. You’d think after 10 years that there wouldn’t be much more to say about DevOps, but practices and technologies continue to evolve, the best keep getting better, and we keep unearthing new topics to research.

Infrastructure Monitoring Tutorial: Getting Started Sending Prometheus Metrics

This Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring tutorial will cover how to get started with our latest product, our new Prometheus-as-a-Service metrics solution that’s based on Prometheus. Engineers monitor metrics to understand CPU and memory utilization for infrastructure, duration and serverless execution, or for network traffic. For more advanced metrics monitoring operations, teams can send custom metrics to monitor signals like the number of active users.

Database Cloud Migration Done Right - SolarWinds Lab Episode #95

The global pandemic has accelerated corporate planning for cloud computing and digital transformation by 2-4 years on average. But database migration, the process of moving a database from one place to another, is no walk in the park. Obstacles abound. Setbacks are common.

CI/CD and Security Testing Automation with CircleCI and NeuraLegion

Join CircleCI and NeuraLegion for a hands-on workshop around automating CI/CD and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST). Benefits of CI/CD Benefits of shifting AppSec left What is Developer Focused DAST? How to automate DAST and CI/CD We'll utilize CircleCI orbs during a 50 minute hands-on workshop to integrate a NexPloit engine into a CircleCI pipeline. We'll cover tips for pipeline failure, recommit, and rescan. Lastly, we’ll review results in NeuraLegion's dashboard.

Architecture and Monitoring Apache ActiveMQ with Grafana

In this article, we are going to look at the architecture of Apache ActiveMQ and how to monitor critical metrics of ActiveMQ using Hosted Prometheus and Hosted Grafana. If you would like to follow the steps in this blog, make sure to sign up for the MetricFire free trial. You can use Graphite and Grafana directly from our platform. MetricFire is a Hosted Graphite, Grafana and Prometheus service, where we do the setup and management of these open-source tools so you don’t have to.

Kubernetes Master Class - Thanos and Istio

Rancher simplifies the deployment and management of monitoring (Prometheus) and observability (Istio) on a cluster to cluster basis. Each of these tools have extensions that allow for global view and global access. With the recent introduction of Fleet, Rancher 2.5 has reduced the barrier to entry for these configurations, making them available to organizations running at any scale.