Today, we announced the launch of a new Grafana Labs product: Grafana Metrics Enterprise, a scalable Prometheus-compatible service designed for large organizations that is seamless to use and simple to maintain. Over the past few years, Prometheus has risen in popularity to become the de facto monitoring system for the cloud native ecosystem around Kubernetes — and for good reason.
The ELK stack has become a staple of log analytics in recent years, but so too have the stories of complex maintenance and poor scalability. We’re going to discuss some of the problems with a self-hosted ELK stack and the advantages of a SaaS offering like Coralogix.
Fundamentally, there are logs that will be of intrinsic value to you, and others that are less business-critical. Are you aware of the logging cost to handle, analyze and store these different types of logs? Should you really have the same approach for mission-critical logs as you do for info or telemetry logs? Differentiating your approach for different logs is challenging. If no two logs are truly the same then why should you treat them the same?
Log maintenance has a hidden cost. Engineers optimize their instance types, storage, networking, dependencies, and much more. However, we rarely consider the engineers themselves. A DevOps culture encourages engineers to own the solutions they build. While this increases team autonomy, it risks splitting the precious bandwidth that the team has. Automation is what makes the DevOps cycle work, and it has to cover log analysis to do a thorough job of catching issues.
Good news! We’ve created an awesome SquaredUp dashboard pack for our ServiceNow Monitoring MP! You can now enjoy our ServiceNow Monitoring MP and Dashboard pack for free, just click on the links below.
We’re well over a year old now, the team has doubled in size and things are going just swell here at Team_Cookdown. Since we launched, we’ve expanded our product range to include some awesome new solutions like Alert Sync and Discovery and added loads of new features to our existing SCOM toolkit; to bring you expertly crafted integrations solutions for two of the most established platforms in IT enterprise, SCOM and ServiceNow.
Health and performance issues are easier to understand—and to troubleshoot—when you can use tags to aggregate your data across many overlapping scopes. But while some scopes come directly from your infrastructure, others are constantly evolving to reflect the needs of your product or organization. You can only track your data effectively if you can define—and redefine—your scopes on the fly.
Sometimes you need tools to manage your tools. If Zapier is your tool of choice, you can now add your Uptrends alerting as one of those tools ready for automation with Zapier.
xMatters provides flexible, smart tools for incident response and management. With configurable workflows that bring together data from sources like Github, Jenkins, and Zendesk, you can automate crucial tasks and send enriched notifications to streamline team communications.
Splunk is happy to announce that we now have a Hashicorp verified Terraform Provider for Splunk. The provider is publicly available in the Terraform Registry and can be used by referencing it in your Terraform configuration file and simply executing terraform init. If you're new to Terraform and Providers, the latest version of Terraform is available here. You will need to download the appropriate binaries and have Terraform installed before using the provider.
