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Ingest geospatial data into Elasticsearch with GDAL

​Have you used Elastic Maps in Kibana yet? I am very excited about multiple layer support. Heat maps, vector layers from the Elastic Maps Service, and even individual documents all in the same interface! What a fantastic way to analyze and visualize your data. But what about geospatial data that’s not in Elasticsearch? Maybe you want to overlay a shapefile of regional sales territories with sales aggregations.

Cloud Discovery in a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud World

While infrastructure and application discovery for datacenter environments is a mature discipline, real-time discovery of public cloud and cloud native services requires an innovative approach. Digital operations teams have to not only onboard invisible and short-lived infrastructure at scale but also ensure visibility, track consumption, and pinpoint service dependencies across dynamic multi-cloud environments.

Black Friday 2019: How Website Uptime Impacts your Bottom Line

Black Friday has quickly become the biggest retail event of the year in the UK, and sales and marketing staff are busy preparing themselves for what can be a make or break week for businesses. What started as an American shopping tradition following Thanksgiving has spread in recent years to become a worldwide phenomenon, with shoppers holding out for Black Friday and Cyber Monday (the online shopping equivalent of Black Friday) to buy gifts ahead of the Christmas holiday season.

How to Reduce Time to First Byte

When it comes to website and search engine optimisation one of the first topics that comes up is page speed. In the case of SEO, for example, we know that Google looks at page speed when determining the ranking of pages in its search engine. There are many means of measuring page speed, but little is known about how Google themselves distinguish a slow loading page from a fast one.

Top 8 WordPress caching plugins to boost your site speed

Where you once happy with the performance of your WordPress site only to find out that it is not loading as fast as it did before? If that is the case, maybe it is time that you consider installing a WordPress caching plugin. A caching will help you speed up your site.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019: get ready

The Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019 event is coming quick, and the predictions are that the now week-long event will be the biggest yet with over $136 billion in sales. E-commerce websites like Amazon and Walmart have been ramping-up for Black Friday for months, but what do you need to do to prepare for the potential rush on your site?

What's next for monitoring Kubernetes

At Datadog, we rely heavily on Kubernetes, and we’re facing some interesting challenges as we use Kubernetes to scale further and strive for greater efficiency. To address these challenges, we’ve been working on solutions to help us better control how our clusters scale, and to make it easier to deploy and manage the Datadog Agent. Today, we’re open sourcing these solutions to share them with the rest of the Kubernetes community.

OneDrive and SharePoint Monitoring: No Credentials Required

Exoprise recently added support for monitoring OneDrive and SharePoint using OAuth credentials in addition to full experience monitoring via headless browsers. Now, with full support for OAuth and the Microsoft Graph API, you can choose whether you want to monitor the real browser-based experience and performance or if you don’t want to share credentials and just want to monitor via the Graph API.