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Serverless event-driven architectures are composed of AWS Lambda functions that regularly interact with databases, APIs, message queues, and other resources to facilitate complex workflows and functionalities. It is therefore crucial to monitor every component of your stack to ensure your applications perform optimally at scale. But traditionally, telemetry data for AWS resources has lived in silos, making it difficult to quickly get the context you need to debug issues.

During the execution of a PHP application, it is possible for it to generate a wide range of warnings and errors. For developers seeking to troubleshoot a misbehaving application, being able to observe these errors is critical. Developers, on the other hand, frequently encounter difficulties when attempting to display errors from their PHP applications. Instead, their applications simply stop working.

The N-able Head Security Nerd, Lewis Pope, just published a blog outlining the top 25 cybersecurity bad practices demonstrated by MSPs today. To accompany his post, I wanted to add one more risky bad habit to his list. It’s something I commonly see being practiced by too many MSPs from a business perspective—allowing a customer’s budget to dictate what a cybersecurity offering should look like.

The CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) recently started an initiative to create a catalogue of exceptionally risky cybersecurity bad practices. While this will be a welcome and very useful tool once it is complete, only two practices are currently listed. Since cybersecurity and business decisions can be time-sensitive, we wanted to expand on the CISA’s list.

When Squadcast was founded back in 2018, we had a concise yet clear goal—we wanted to make it as easy as possible for companies to manage their IT incident and reliability needs. In the spirit of continuing that mission, today I’m excited to announce our $6M fundraise led by DNX Ventures and backed by Wipro Ventures, Nexus Ventures, and Chiratae Ventures. We’re also pleased to announce the addition of DNX and Q Motiwala to our Board of Directors.

Excellent new features have arrived in Loki v2.3.0. Bug fixes too. And performance increases on top of that. While we have been quiet, we have been very busy!

Is GitOps changing observability as we know it? GitOps has been the buzz word in the DevOps space for several years. GitOps, to those that are not familiar, is an operational methodology for DevOps that leverages a continuous deployment approach with Git as the single source of ‘truth’ for declarative control over both infrastructure and applications.

Teamwork project management is critical to the success of your organization. If you have the right project management tools in place, these will give your team a strategic advantage. A team can only ever be as good as the tools it utilizes. Organizations committed to delivering incredible customer experiences are actively investing in teamwork project management solutions.

The OpsRamp Monitor is back, capturing the latest buzz around what’s trending in the world of ITOps and related technology. It’s been a busy month!

Many of you are familiar with Splunk’s Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) and the Deep Learning Toolkit (DLTK) for Splunk and have started working with either one to address security, operations, DevOps or business use cases. A frequently asked question that I often hear about MLTK is how to organize the data flow in Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud.