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When looking at the performance of your website, web service,or API over a span of time, you will notice variations in the performance reported by the monitor. You may also notice inconsistencies between the performance reported from different monitors. Why? Why do you see spikes in your charts?

A new version of RapidSpike is due to be released in the next few days. Here’s what’s changed, and what’s new.

OpsRamp is proud to announce that we’ve joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). As cloud-native adoption within the enterprise grows at an accelerated pace and Kubernetes emerges as the leading orchestration platform for containerized applications, we’ve been actively developing new enhancements and features to support these innovative technologies.

OpsRamp, the service-centric AIOps platform for the modern enterprise, today announced its silver membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Today OpsRamp provides autodiscovery for Kubernetes and Docker hosts along with Kubernetes infrastructure monitoring for multi-cloud infrastructure (AKS, EKS, GKE) and on-prem environments. The CNCF partnership comes as the company is set to release new features for Kubernetes monitoring in a matter of weeks.

Kubernetes allows DevOps teams to deploy containerized applications faster and makes managing containers at scale significantly easier. Obtaining visibility into these containerized applications is key to maximizing application/service performance and proactively preventing downtime.

Crashed websites and slow loading pages can be devastating for any site owner. But there’s another type of threat that often goes undetected. A report published by FireEye on Thursday details a particular type of DNS hijacking that allows hackers to easily steal information. These attacks have been going on for approximately two years and involve three different methods that compromise websites without alarming users.