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Inventory Monitoring for Your Cloud Infrastructure

Managing agile software deployment for cloud infrastructure can be challenging. Deployments should be automated whenever possible to ensure consistent version management. Nevertheless, it can happen that identical software versions are not deployed to all servers. Such imperfect version management is a potential time-bomb. Distributed systems and microservices often rely on the deployment of the exact same software version installed on every cluster node.

Elastic Stack Version 7.2: Feature Tour

Elastic SIEM makes its debut. Elastic App Search introduces a self-managed downloadable deployment option. Elastic APM adds support for .NET. The new Metrics Explorer brings a more intuitive exploration of infrastructure metrics in the Infrastructure app, and Kubernetes observability story expands further with new data integrations in Beats.

Installing the ELK Stack on Alibaba Cloud: Step by Step Guide

The ELK Stack is the world’s most popular open source log analytics and log management platform. Together, the four main components of the stack — Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats, provide users with a powerful tool for aggregating, storing and analyzing log data. In production environments, the ELK Stack requires an infrastructure flexible and powerful enough to power it.

Five reasons to choose Log360, part 1: User-friendly deployment and UI

SIEM solutions are a must-have in any organization’s security toolkit. They allow you to analyze events from your network, gain actionable insights into network activity, and detect and mitigate data breaches and other security incidents, all while remaining compliant with regulatory mandates. Log360 is ManageEngine’s comprehensive SIEM offering that helps organizations meet a wide range of auditing, security, and compliance needs.

5 Splunk Alternatives - Faster, Affordable Log Management Solutions

Learn the best Splunk alternative, what to look for in alternative solutions, and other factors like logging features, speed, ease of use, deployment, scalability, and cost.What Does Splunk Do?Since its first release in 2007, Splunk quickly became one of the leading log management solutions. Its focus on enterprise grade log analysis and security incident and event management (SIEM) made it the de facto choice for organizations generating large volumes of log files and machine data.

How to Monitor Activity in Your IBM Cloud with LogDNA

Cloud environments are becoming increasingly complex, with applications and even infrastructures changing constantly. Despite their dynamic nature, these environments must be monitored constantly for teams to ensure the stability, security, and performance of workloads running in them. Tracking these infrastructure changes is one of the most important—and one of the most difficult—parts of maintaining a cloud environment.

How to Defend Your Business Against SQL Injections

One of the oldest (but often neglected) security vulnerabilities is SQL injection. One common scenario goes like this: An unsuspecting programmer writes an application that accepts input from the user which serves as a parameter to retrieve or store data from a database (e.g., a web login form). The programmer writes a dynamically populated SQL query inside the app, based on user input like username and password (see Image 1 for reference).

Deploying Elasticsearch in GKE with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes

Dan Roscigno from Elastic will show you how to get started - from deploying a k8s cluster in GKE, to deploying the ECK Kubernetes Operator, and then deploying Elasticsearch and Kibana. After launching Kibana and enabling monitoring you will see the Elasticsearch cluster scale from one to three nodes.