The cold season is hopefully coming to an end, and Spring is here! And just like the changes in the seasons, we have a new SDK release, updated developer docs, and other signs of new growth! It’s a great time to update your apps using the latest SDKs for the latest Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise releases. Plant your session proposal in the .conf21 Call For Speakers! It's also time to prune away some older jQuery and Python versions support. Read on for the latest news.

For our first specialist interview on the Logit.io blog, we’ve welcomed Scott Steinburg to share his thoughts on the current state of cybersecurity as well as the reasons behind writing his new book Cybersecurity: The Expert Guide. Scott is the creator of the popular Business Expert’s Guidebook series, host of video show Business Expert: Small Business Hints, Tips and Advice and CEO of high-tech consulting firm TechSavvy Global.

A big topic of interest nowadays is web application monitoring. Application performance monitoring and log analytics are required by businesses of all sizes to ensure their web applications’ smooth operation. If your application serves as the backend for your business processes, it is critical for your organization. You need to know, in real-time, when and why it breaks. To answer these questions, we will use Logz.io products to monitor a simple web application served by Nginx.

System and application logs provide crucial data for operators and developers to troubleshoot and keep applications healthy. Google Cloud automatically captures log data for its services and makes it available in Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring. As you add more services to your fleet, tasks such as determining a budget for storing logs data and performing granular cross-project analysis can become challenging.

When you are installing PA Server Monitor, you will need to configure what occurs when there are event log monitor alerts. You typically set this up during the initial install. However, it is not uncommon to want to make changes and updates or even add new events to your server monitoring software as you become more familiar with it.

Elastic Cloud is available for US government users and partners who want to harness the power of enterprise search, observability, and security to make mission-critical decisions. Elastic Cloud is FedRAMP authorized at Moderate Impact level so federal organizations and other customers in highly regulated environments can quickly and easily search their applications, data, and infrastructure for information, analyze data to observe insights, and protect their technology investment.