Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

According to the latest Crowdstrike report, in 2022 cloud-based exploitation increased by 95%, and there was an average eCrime breakout time of 84 minutes. Just as significantly, in 2021, the Biden administration passed an executive order to improve the nation’s cybersecurity standards. There are also upcoming laws like DORA in the European Union. So, increased cyber attacks and legislative pressures mean you need to (a) actively protect against threats and (b) prove that you are doing so.

Many DevOps teams work proactively to meet security and compliance standards. They consider security best practices when developing software with open source components, scanning code for vulnerabilities, deploying changes, and maintaining applications and infrastructure. Security is a key feature of many of the tools they’re using, and the policies and industry standards they’re following.

We are introducing a new Snooze option for items. When Snoozing an item, the user will define how long an item will stop sending notifications for - once that time period expires then the item will return to normal and begin sending notifications again. Currently, setting an Item to have a status of Muted prevents notifications from being sent until somebody changes the status back to Active.

What are the current options to migrate from OpenSearch to Elasticsearch®? OpenSearch is a fork of Elasticsearch 7.10 that has diverged quite a bit from itself lately, resulting in a different set of features and also different performance, as this benchmark shows (hint: it’s currently much slower than Elasticsearch).

In our first blog post, we introduced the concept of cloud unit economics—a system to measure cost and usage metrics. It helps maximize cloud value for better outcomes per dollar spent. We reviewed what cloud unit economics is, why it’s crucial to FinOps success, and how it enables organizations to unlock the full business value potential of cloud computing.

1. Why use ilert with Pandora FMS? 2. ilert setup with Pandora FMS 3. How are ilert alerts shown? 4. Advanced ilert use: event correlation with Pandora FMS.

Efficiency has always been a goal for organizations, but recent economic headwinds have made it a priority. Budgets have been stretched especially thin recently, leading many organizations to focus on improving operational efficiency. Bugs, security incidents and unreliable services can all slow your organization down and distract from delivering on your priorities. Cortex helps you minimize these distractions with its scorecard feature.

Metrics are closely associated with cloud infrastructure monitoring or application performance monitoring – we monitor metrics like infrastructure CPU and request latency to understand how our services are responding to changes in the system, which is a good way to surface new production issues. As many teams transition to observability, collecting metric data isn’t enough.

If you’re sick with a cold then measuring your body temperature is a wise move or maybe if things are really bad a visit to a doctor might result in testing vs. what are considered “normal” levels in order to diagnose the issue; seasonal flu or infection? To improve our health after picking up a bad bug, we do things that affect our situation back to normal levels once again where we can then declare ourselves healthy.

In my first post, I talked about how SQL Sentry has taken shape over the years. Now we announced SQL Sentry 2023.3, and a lot is changing. In the past, customers could only work with SQL Sentry through an installed, Windows-based client. It’s a feature-rich interface with access to everything you need with no limit to how many users install it. But we heard our customers; they wanted a web-based interface with a simplified user experience.