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Splunking Cisco Webex Meetings Data

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on our working lives. Companies have adopted by transforming their workforce to work remotely through video conferencing software. Cisco’s Webex Meetings, one of the most popular video conference softwares, plays a critical role in helping employees stay connected, enhance collaboration and drive productivity.

Using Splunk to Detect Abuse of AWS Permanent and Temporary Credentials

Amazon Web Services provides its users with the ability to create temporary credentials via the use of AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS). These temporary credentials work pretty much in the same manner like permanent credentials created from AWS IAM Service. There are however two differences.

Monitoring NGINX with Applications Manager

NGINX is open-source software that started out as a web server and now provides various solutions such as web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It also serves as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers.

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Control the chaos - The importance of monitoring traffic spikes

You've spent years scaling your infrastructure alongside your business growth, and day-to-day, your application performance is thriving. But what happens when your traffic spikes out of your predicted "normal" range, heading into unchartered territory? Are you prepared to support this new influx of customers? Or will you crumble under the pressure of it all - leaving customers dissatisfied at the poor user experience?

Incorporate Datadog Synthetic tests into your CI/CD pipeline

Testing within the CI/CD pipeline, also known as shift-left testing, is a devops best practice that enables agile teams to continually assess the viability of new features at every stage of the development process. Running tests early and often makes it easier to catch issues before they impact your users, reduce technical debt, and foster efficient, cross-team collaboration.

Expand your monitoring reach with the Datadog Marketplace

The Datadog Partner Network (DPN) is a rapidly growing registry of hundreds of leaders in the cloud service industry who choose Datadog to meet their infrastructure-monitoring needs. Partners are well-acquainted with the more than 400 technology integrations available to Datadog customers, but with the huge diversity in technical stacks used by our customers, there’s always demand for more customization and flexibility.

Enable preconfigured alerts with Recommended Monitors

Datadog’s more than 400 integrations collect monitoring data from across your entire stack, giving you full visibility into the health and performance of your applications and infrastructure. Alerts are a crucial part of any monitoring workflow, as they draw your attention to problems in your system before they affect your users. But whether you’re migrating to a new environment or integrating a new technology into your stack, it’s not always clear what data you should alert on.

My first Kubernetes cluster: Amazon EKS review + tutorial

During my career, I’ve taken part in many on-call rotations and post-mortems. The longest on-call rotation I’ve ever had — no breaks, vacations, or holidays — lasted for a whopping 2.5 years at Lucid Software. I’m jaded. I strongly prefer stability to tinkering with shiny new toys. Very few software engineers start this way, but enough of them make the transition after having been bit enough times by a bad release.

Civo Community Meetup #2: CI/CD focus w/ Sam Weston and Johannes Tegnér

For our second community meetup we focussed on using Civo for CI/CD through GitOps and Github actions for cloud native application development This installment featured talks from our CTO Andy, our Developer Advocate Kai, and guest talks from community members Sam Weston and Johannes Tegnér. The talks touched on a wide variety of topics within CI/CD, from automating builds to monitoring and observability. Here's what was on the agenda...