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Remember when native commands like ping and ipconfig were adequate for network inspection? With networks becoming more dynamic, these generic tools don’t seem to make the cut anymore. IT admins are in a constant quest for ad hoc network tools and utilities that could aid specific network management needs. Using individual network diagnostic tools, on the other hand, requires constant tab switching, and comparing data pulled by independent network tools to pinpoint your network issue.

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! This month, our big announcement was around CloudTrail and Fargate scanning support. CloudTrail support gives Sysdig Secure the ability to ingest CloudTrail events. These get fed into the runtime security engine, where rules can be created using the Falco rules language.

What is cherry pick in Git? We have added a new intermediate Git tutorial video to our popular Learning Git with GitKraken educational series, covering the cherry pick command and related benefits. View the latest addition to our Learn Git library—Learning Git: How to Cherry Pick—to discover more about how to use the cherry pick command, for which situations it can be used most effectively in your workflow, and tips for avoiding duplicate commits.

The reliability and stability of your services directly depend on how well you understand the state of your infrastructure and services. A great monitoring system will allow you to understand your infrastructure better. Monitoring the performance of your system allows you to not only fix current problems but also make changes to your infrastructure to avoid them in the future.

The Netdata Agent is well-equipped to solve monitoring and troubleshooting challenges for single nodes. We love that the Agent is so valuable to our users, but Netdata Cloud is designed for infrastructure monitoring. That’s why we’re working so hard to offer even more capabilities and help users monitor and troubleshoot infrastructures of all sizes, entirely for free!

Prometheus and Grafana are powerful monitoring solutions. Combined together, you can build insightful monitoring metrics and display analysis on a beautiful dashboard. Among many external systems and applications, you can also monitor RabbitMQ with both toolkits. To integrate RabbitMQ into your Prometheus and Grafana, you can try MetricFire that provides hosted solutions for Prometheus and Grafana.

Both containers and virtual machines are virtual environments that comprise a number of computing components and are independent in nature, thereby allowing developers to scale applications in isolated runtimes. Both of these concepts aim at providing independent sets of resources to individual computing environments to ensure quick and reliable application performance.

The StackStorm project is pleased to announce that the latest version of StackStorm, v3.3.0, is now publicly available! It has been approximately 5 months since our v3.2.0 release and we are releasing a new version containing important features and bug fixes that move the project forward.

With organizations worldwide moving towards digitization and remote working models, there is an increased need for more computing power and server resources. But not everyone can afford to host state-of-the-art, well-maintained servers in their premises. And that is why virtualization technology is so popular today. Virtualization technology enables organizations of all sizes to make use of IT services without the hardware resource constraint. Are you thinking about how virtualization can help you?