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DigitalOcean is a cost-effective virtual private server (VPS) provider popular among the developer community. The platform also offers services for rapid development, deployment, testing, and maintaining modern distributed applications. One of these services is a managed firewall solution that allows blocking unwanted traffic. It’s relatively easy to manage and deploy as an infrastructure component. Sometimes, however, operations teams need to dig deeper when the firewall blocks network traffic.

Yes, there is the ability to silence or disable alerts in Graylog. There are times in IT environments where you know you are going to generate specific events in your network. As an example, you are patching servers, upgrading hardware components, and many other things. These types of activities are very common during maintenance windows.

Sumo Logic is a cloud-based log management and analytics service that leverages machine-generated big data to deliver real-time IT insights. We’re excited to share that you can now easily integrate Catchpoint and Sumo Logic, giving you a number of fantastic benefits. The integration involves pushing data from Catchpoint to Sumo Logic using Webhooks and then query the data to build visualizations. Why do we use Webhooks?

Today, we are pleased to announce a partnership with Confluent to jointly develop and deliver an enhanced product experience to the Kafka-Elasticsearch community. Kafka is — and has been since the very early days — an important component of the Elastic ecosystem.

When migrating to Kubernetes and re-architecting your applications into containers, logging is a critical piece to consider. The twelve-factor app methodology has a section dedicated to logging and outlines the importance of not worrying about routing and storage of your logs. As a best practice, applications running in containers should rely 100% on standard output (STDOUT). Unfortunately, getting logs from applications that do not write to STDOUT is non-trivial and has many things to consider.

Logz.io has pressed hard to align our tracing and metrics analytics capabilities over the past year. And as our technology advances, so does our service. We are announcing Multiple Tracing Accounts with Logz.io Distributed Tracing, aligning it with our logging and metrics tools. Complementing multiple data sources for metrics and logs, Logz users can segment their data according to sources and teams for better organization.

Link analysis, which is a data analysis approach used to discover relationships and connections between data elements and entities, has many use cases including cybersecurity, fraud analytics, crime investigations, and finance. In my last post, "Advanced Link Analysis: Part 1 - Solving the Challenge of Information Density," I covered how advanced link analysis can be used to solve the challenge of information density.