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How to Build a Scalable Prometheus Architecture

When building distributed, scalable cloud-native apps containing dozens or even hundreds of microservices, you need reliable monitoring and alerting. If you’re monitoring cloud-native apps in 2021, there’s a good chance you’ve chosen Prometheus. Prometheus is an excellent choice for monitoring containerized microservices and the infrastructure that runs them — often Kubernetes.

Dashboard Server: Working with the PowerShell tile

Amongst all the cool features of SquaredUp Dashboard Server, the coolest kid on the block is probably the PowerShell tile. The reason is simple – PowerShell is easy, it’s awesome, and it’s powerful! You can not only retrieve data from the source (like the APIs), but you can also manipulate that data, work with variables, loop it, filter it, and use it in whichever way works the best. Like they say, the things PowerShell can do are only restricted by the proficiency of the user.

Export API v2 - Streamline Large Log Data Exports

The LogDNA platform improves how teams use logs to help with debugging and troubleshooting. However, having fast access to actionable data isn’t the only value you can get from logs. There’s a lot of additional value in analyzing historical log data to understand long term trends. For example, customers can use log data as a way to represent audit events for user actions and benefit from visualizing them in a 3rd party software.

4 Steps for Investing in Telecoms Solutions & Employee Experience

After more than a year of remote work and video meetings, most people are ready to bid farewell to the days of collaborating with colleagues through their computer screens. Not so fast. The approaching end to the pandemic doesn’t mean an end to telecommunication as the primary form of workforce collaboration. According to a recent study: While some companies have embraced remote work as the new normal, most businesses are preparing for a hybrid workplace.

Monitoring AWS EC2 with Splunk Observability

Today, much of our online world is powered by cloud computing, and Amazon Web Services offers an amazing depth and breadth of available services. However, most of the time it starts with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2. EC2 is powered by virtual servers called instances and allows users to provision scalable compute capacity as desired. This means no server hardware investment and the ability to scale up or down in response to demand (thus elastic).

The essentials of Windows event logging

One of the most prevalent log sources in many enterprises is Windows Event Logs. Being able to collect and process these logs has a huge impact on the effectiveness of any cybersecurity team. In this multi-part blog series, we will be looking at all things related to Windows Event Logs. We will begin our journey with audit policies and generating event logs, then move through collecting and analysing logs, and finally to building use cases such as detection rules, reports, and more.

Proactive Monitoring in Digital Transformation Times

Pandora FMS is a proactive, advanced, flexible and easy-to-configure monitoring tool according to each business. Pandora FMS integrates with the needs of the business, being able to monitor servers, network equipment, terminals and whatever is necessary. In this article we will focus on monitoring using Pandora FMS, bearing in mind the new reality, which has arrived to stay, known as “Digital Transformation”.

DEM and secure connectivity vendor offerings: the fox & the henhouse

A typical service delivery chain starts from the device and runs through the network and all the way through to the application. There are many things that can go wrong along the way! It’s critical to monitor that experience and quickly understand where issues occur, why they occur, and what can be done to remedy them. That’s where employee and/or customer Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) comes into play.

Choosing Azure Instances for Microsoft WVD: Community and Vendor Resources

In an earlier blog, we had discussed what is Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and why it is gaining popularity. In this blog, we present various community and vendor resources that can help you choose the right Azure instances for your Microsoft WVD deployment. Here, at eG Innovations, we offer a wealth of monitoring and simulation tools to allow you to monitor what real users are experiencing when accessing Microsoft WVD.