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Kubernetes Security

Containers and Kubernetes have revolutionized the way many teams deploy applications. But with the many benefits that these technologies provide come new challenges. Key among those challenges is security. By adding more layers and complexity to application environments, containers and Kubernetes create new opportunities for attackers and new security threats for Kubernetes admins to address.

Top 10 Open Source APM Tools

Project owners and developers turn to open source APM tools to lessen the cost of application performance monitoring. In this entry, let’s examine the attributes of these open source tools. Years ago, traditional APM solutions were designed for IT only, particularly network operations. The APMs were used to monitor data to ensure the network’s Quality of Service(QoS). However, the landscape has changed.

Going Broad & Deep to Optimize Experience With The Newest Nexthink Release

The latest Nexthink release has rolled out, and we couldn’t be more excited to help you go broader and deeper to solve even more digital experience challenges. What exactly do we mean? End-user computing involves an enormous array of technologies that interact to deliver services to employees—from devices and the operating systems that run on them, to virtual desktops, applications (local and SaaS), and the networks that enable these services.

Storing, Processing and Visualizing Data with the ogamma Visual Logger for OPC and InfluxDB

This article describes an end-to-end solution built with open source components InfluxDB and Grafana and the ogamma Visual Logger for OPC, to collect industrial process control data, analyze it in streaming mode, and visualize it in a dashboard.

Introducing The Amazon Connect App for Splunk

We’ve seen quite a bit of change this year as businesses have had to pivot to accelerating their digital transformation strategy, and placing even more emphasis on leveraging technology as a competitive differentiator. Most have continued to stress the importance of maintaining excellent customer relationships through their contact centers, but the playing field has changed as they now have to tap into data for insights that may have normally been gleaned through an analog approach.

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RUM and APM: Your solution for building better user experiences

As modern development practices evolve at rapid rates we must stay focused on what makes for a great experience; fast, flawless software. In the pursuit of building fast, performant software, you've likely come across performance monitoring products like Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM). In this article, we go deeper into how using RUM and APM can help you and your team build better software experiences.

FabFit - Not So Fun for Customers with Stolen Payment Data

Our sources state that there has been a 20% increase in web-skimming attacks since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. Recently, we have witnessed some high-profile Magecart attacks. The latest Magecart attacks include; American Payroll Association, music giant – Warner Music Group, and lifestyle subscription brand – FabFitFun.

Choosing SLOs that users need, not the ones you want to provide

In our latest two-part series blog, Adam Hammond, talks about how you can build sustainable SLOs that are appropriate for your users, your technology platform, and your business which in turn will help you make your systems robust, your customers happy, and your business boom.

New features in the ServiceNow plugin for Grafana: table query, annotations, and more!

Greetings! This is Eldin reporting from the Solutions Engineering team at Grafana Labs. In previous posts, you might have read about announcing ObservabilityCON or our release of Grafana 7.2. In this week’s post, I am introducing Dave Frankel, who will be covering our updated ServiceNow plugin. – Eldin In a previous post we announced the release of our Enterprise ServiceNow plugin. Our first release was focused around incident and change management based on the feedback we received.

Understand production performance with Cloud Profiler history view

Cloud Profiler is a favorite of Google Cloud customers thanks to the insight that it provides into the performance of your production code. You can use this knowledge to reduce and shorten outages, improve performance, and optimize compute spend—always a popular topic! Profiler has always provided the ability to view and compare CPU and memory performance over time through time filters and the comparison feature.