The best part of my job is talking to you, our prospects, and customers, about your logging and data practices. I love listening to what you are doing and hope to accomplish, so I can get a sense of the end state. My goal is to brainstorm solutions that provide overall value across the enterprise, and not just aim for a narrow tactical win with limited impact. In late September, I hung out at a local DevOps conference in Brooklyn with the NYC Cribl sales team.
October has, as usual, been a busy month, and Sysdig announced many new features. In Sysdig Monitor, we announced the release of four new Advisories and Yaml config support for Advisor. In Sysdig Secure, we released Severity filtering in Insights, Pod and Node activity view in Insight and four new Falco rules added to the Rules Library. Each of these are discussed in detail below.
For several decades, IT monitoring has been deployed in different forms. The focus of IT monitoring has been to gather metrics about the operations of an IT infrastructure’s hardware and software assets to ensure that all the key functions are being performed as expected to support applications and IT services. In the recent past, the term Observability has been used as a synonym for “modern monitoring”.
Brand loyalty might be on the decline, but ecommerce is on the rise. Ecommerce is on track to account for 24% of global retail sales by the end of 2026. Source: Statista And as businesses reach growth limits in their local markets, the industry is seeing more ecommerce brands expanding onto the global stage. 76% of online shoppers have made purchases on sites outside of their own countries.
For many organizations, making the most of the visibility Datadog offers into the health and performance of their infrastructure means displaying dashboards to stakeholders in various settings continuously and in real time. But the standard solutions for sharing dashboards to large-format displays can be onerous, involving sundry software and hardware and restrictive manual setups. These solutions can also pose significant security risks, since they tend to involve sharing passwords or devices.
Asynchronous communication between various CX applications has long been made possible by enterprise messaging solutions like IBM MQ and – more recently – Apache Kafka. Developers might assume that these two technologies are interchangeable. However, once they scrape the surface, critical differences between IBM MQ and Apache Kafka come to light.
Today, we're announcing the launch of Honeycomb Service Map. This isn't your grandparent's version of a service map. This feature reimagines what it is that you want to know or investigate when looking at visualizations of how your services communicate with one another.
HAProxy is generally the frontend layer of your application, which means it plays a critical role since all traffic first lands on this layer. Because of this, you need to make sure everything is working at this layer all the time, as any issue can directly impact your business. Therefore, having visibility on this layer is crucial. Visibility can come from two aspects: the metrics HAProxy emits and the logs it generates while handling requests.
