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If you have any experience with comparing the leading tools in observability then it is very likely that you will have come across Splunk & ELK during your research. These two titans have provided a swiss army knife of useful tools to many developers, cybersecurity specialists and devops professionals over the years since their inception. In this guide, we’ll be comparing these two leading SIEM tools against each other to help you to decide on which solution will help your security use case.

Apache Zookeeper is a great tool used by many popular tools. Your Kafka uses Zookeeper, your HDFS uses it, your SolrCloud uses it, and your ClickHouse may also be using it. No matter where you are using Apache Zookeeper, it is usually a crucial piece of the infrastructure and it needs to be reliable and fast.

If you use Windows, you want to monitor Windows Events. With our latest contribution to the observIQ OpenTelemetry Collector, you can easily monitor Windows Events with OpenTelemetry. You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with any OTel collector: including the OpenTelemetry Collector and observIQ’s distribution of the collector. Below are steps to get up and running quickly with observIQ’s distribution, and shipping Windows Event logs to a popular backend: Google Cloud Ops.

In this article, we will talk about Graphite and Grafana monitoring systems, and their similarities and differences. Also, we will explain why it is an effective solution to use Graphite and Grafana together to monitor your system metrics. We will also learn about the benefits of using MetricFire. Sign up for MetricFire for free and store and process your system metrics with our hosted Graphite solution.

It was Avantra’s predecessor Syslink Xandria 7.2, released back in November 2018, which provided native cloud integration for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Right after this release providing our first step in automation for IaaS, specifically around start-/stop, we heard customers say: “But we have a huge VMware on-premise landscape, don’t forget us.” Needless to say that we certainly know that VMware products have made their way to the cloud since quite some time.

Integration and middleware staffing issues within IT Operations and Service Delivery teams are common, even in the largest enterprises. Here is the story of one large enterprise.

When IBM MQ 9.3 was released last month, as discussed here, it was notable (and noted) that this was just for distributed platforms and that news of the mainframe and the appliance would follow. Now, IBM has announced the new MQ Appliance, called M2003, with general availability on August 2, 2022.

AWS Transit Gateway is a service that makes it easy to connect multiple Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), AWS accounts, AWS Regions, and on-premises networks together through a central hub. For AWS customers operating at global scale with many accounts and VPCs, AWS Transit Gateway greatly simplifies AWS networking architecture by eliminating the need to manage complex peering relationships and massive route tables.

If your organization is embracing cloud-native practices, then breaking systems into smaller components or services and moving those services to containers is an essential step in that journey. Containers allow you to take advantage of cloud-hosted distributed infrastructure, move and replicate services as required to ensure your application can meet demand, and take instances offline when they’re no longer needed to save costs.

Mature start-ups and scale-ups create wonderful and challenging environments for Engineers. As the product they’re creating matures and the brand becomes a successful one, the user base generally starts growing, and, for some companies, in places they might not expect it to grow. As that happens, new challenges arise for Engineers. One of these challenges is pretty straightforward to guess. Basically having a particular product available throughout different regions of the world.