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Monitor all operating systems with one solution: Icinga 2

We as a company build monitoring software. And we have committed to diversity. It is just logical and consequent for us to apply this principle not only to the people who do the work, but also to the work itself. To the monitoring software we build. Especially to Icinga 2 which, in a perfectly monitored environment, runs on every single machine. I.e. on every single OS powering all those machines.

How to Perform a Forensic Analysis After a Security Breach

In this Kentik demo, Phil Gervasi shows how to perform a forensic analysis after a security breach. Leveraging Kentik's robust visibility into public cloud traffic, we showcase how engineers can effectively identify, analyze, and respond to security incidents. Through a hypothetical scenario, we trace a security alert from its origin—a suspected attack on an Azure-hosted system—to its resolution. Using tools like the Kentik Map and Data Explorer, we identify the attacker's entry point, compromised internal devices, and potential data exfiltration activities.

A Deep Dive into Microsoft Cloud Monitoring for IT Pros

As businesses increasingly rely on the power of the cloud, maintaining optimal performance is paramount. Enter network monitoring tools - the guiding stars that help IT pros navigate the expansive cosmos of Microsoft's cloud services with precision and confidence. In this article, we're embarking on a comprehensive exploration into the world of Microsoft Cloud Monitoring using network monitoring tools.

What Does Real Time Mean?

Cindy works long hours managing a SecOps team at UltraCorp, Inc. Her team’s days are spent triaging alerts, managing incidents, and protecting the company from cyberattacks. The workload is immense, and her team relies on a popular SOAR platform to automate incident response including executing case management workflows that populate cases with relevant event data and enrichment with IOCs from their TIP, as well execute a playbook to block the source of the threat at the endpoint.

OpenTelemetry Webinars - Gathering data with the OpenTelemetry Collector

Join Nočnica Mellifera and Pranay as they discuss architecting and collecting data with the OpenTelemetry Collector. We discuss using Apache Kafka queues to handle OTLP data, and why you probably shouldn't push OTel data straight to Postgres. Below is the recording and an edited transcript of the conversation. Find the conversation transcript below.👇 Nica: Hi everybody! If you're seeing this we're starting up we'll get started in just a moment here.

Managing your applications on Amazon ECS EC2-based clusters with Elastic Observability

In previous blogs, we explored how Elastic Observability can help you monitor various AWS services and analyze them effectively: One of the more heavily used AWS container services is Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service). While there is a trend toward using Fargate to simplify the setup and management of ECS clusters, many users still prefer using Amazon ECS with EC2 instances.

Efficiency and Effectiveness

WIth unlimited money, most technology problems become easy to solve. But how do you design, build, and operate large scale, performant systems without breaking the bank? In this session, Chandru Subramanian (Director of Engineering, Runtime Efficiency at Datadog) and Neil Innes (Sr. Engineering Manager, DevOps at FanDuel) will discuss how they balance efficiency and effectiveness to save money while also meeting key goals.

CTO Fireside Chat

Building large scale technical systems is hard, but building and scaling high performing technical organizations is even more difficult. In this session, Datadog Co-founder and CTO Alexis Lê-Quôc will sit down with Prashant Pandey, Head of Engineering at Asana, to discuss their approach to engineering leadership. They’ll share the hard-learned lessons from their long careers to help you cultivate better technical teams, covering topics from staying in tune with new technologies, enabling innovation, shipping modern ML and AI-based features, and scaling teams.

Right Size, Right Performance, Right Time

It’s been said that, “premature optimization is the root of all evil.” Contrarily, many engineers have also had to work with software riddled with so much technical debt and inefficiency that optimization is practically impossible and a complete rewrite is required. So when is the right time? In this panel session, we’ll talk with engineering leaders and architects about their approach to software optimization, when to do it, and how to design systems that scale and stay performant.