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How to set up Elastic Cloud: Advice from Elastic Support

I hate reinventing the wheel once I find a good setup. On top of that, I dislike searching for all the links I used to come up with the “ultimate setup” for different services. So, I decided to outline for myself (and for you of course) my default setup when I deploy on Elastic Cloud to set myself up for success and automate insight for the future. Most of my setup steps make monitoring accessible or automate various warnings to myself.

Organizations Grapple with Skyrocketing Cloud Costs, Anodot Survey Finds

The pandemic upended business for many or at the very least cast a grim shade of uncertainty, so, as many took to working from home, they also were commissioned with cutting waste. Among the biggest sources of misspend in 2020 – cloud services. And remote work may have actually spurred the problem, as organizations migrate more applications to the cloud to support these workers.

Splunk SOAR Playbooks: GCP Unusual Service Account Usage

As organizations increase their cloud footprints, it becomes more and more important to implement access control monitoring for as many resources as possible. In previous playbooks, we have shown examples of AWS and Azure account monitoring, but the series would not be complete without also supporting Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Interview with Cybersecurity Specialist Jen Ayers

For our latest specialist interview in our series speaking to technology leaders from around the world, we’ve welcomed the COO of DNSFilter, Jen Ayers to share her insights from the world of cybersecurity including the latest trends she is seeing on the rise and what business leaders need to keep in mind for the rest of 2021.

Monitor Databricks with Datadog

Databricks is an orchestration platform for Apache Spark. Users can manage clusters and deploy Spark applications for highly performant data storage and processing. By hosting Databricks on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform, you can easily provision Spark clusters in order to run heavy workloads. And, with Databricks’s web-based workspace, teams can use interactive notebooks to share datasets and collaborate on analytics, machine learning, and streaming in the cloud.

Manage incidents on the go with the Datadog mobile app

The Datadog mobile app enables you to check your alerts and dashboards from anywhere, so you can triage issues—and stay up to date—regardless of whether you have access to a laptop. You can now be even more productive when responding to issues while away from your keyboard by declaring incidents and notifying responders directly from your mobile device.