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The future of automation - from slow to hyperflow

Automation has been the harbinger of change since the start of industrialisation. From Roman aqueducts to conveyor belts, and from water wheels to modern computing, automation has represented the pinnacle of human innovation of its time. Making it an essential catalyst for change and a critical step to the next industrial revolution. But with mission critical software application being at the heart of modern industries, automation is not only a pinnacle but a base layer for the fourth industrial revolution.

New release of Sysdig Open Source leverages Falco plugins

Sysdig maintainers are thrilled to announce the latest release of our beloved OSS tool for analyzing and/or recording the activity of processes and containers on a Linux system. You can find the full CHANGELOG in the GitHub repository, but here are some highlighted features: Note: The 0.29.1 has been released with a bug fix shortly after we started to write this post.

Sysdig Advisor: Making Kubernetes troubleshooting effortless

The cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, GitOps… the last five years have seen a huge transformation in how organizations are architecting and shipping applications. It’s hard to keep up with the pace and learn all of this new tech! Nearly 55% of respondents to Canonical’s 2021 Kubernetes and cloud native operations report highlighted how the lack of sufficient in-house skills and people power is the biggest challenge that Kubernetes brings to businesses.

New release: SquaredUp 5.5

We’ve just released SquaredUp 5.5! As always, you’ll find some great new additional features as well as enhancements in the SquaredUp Community, Azure, and SCOM Editions. Plus, the new 5.5 release works with SCOM 2022. Here’s a quick overview of what’s new: Check out the release webinar here or keep reading for all the juicy details.

Troubleshoot Kubernetes 10x Faster With Sysdig Advisor

Troubleshoot Kubernetes problems up to 10X faster. Want to know how? Let’s dig in! Kubernetes is really difficult to operate at scale. When organizations have a problem in Kubernetes they must use command line tools, dashboards, and logs to figure out what went wrong. It can take hours to inspect the situation and identify the root cause before you can take action. Problems like crashloopbackoff and pods pending errors can be especially frustrating since there are so many things that can cause those conditions.

Accelerate Kubernetes troubleshooting with Sysdig Advisor

Troubleshoot Kubernetes problems up to 10X faster. Want to know how? Let’s dig in! Kubernetes is really difficult to operate at scale. When organizations have a problem in Kubernetes they must use command line tools, dashboards, and logs to figure out what went wrong. It can take hours to inspect the situation and identify the root cause before you can take action. Problems like crashloopbackoff and pods pending errors can be especially frustrating since there are so many things that can cause those conditions.

Uncovering the Manufacturing Security Risks in Today's Hybrid Working and Industry 4.0

Managing cyber risk is now a business imperative for manufacturing organizations to enjoy the benefits of Industry 4.0 and/or the move to long term hybrid working without falling victim to debilitating, expensive and public cyberattacks. As sophisticated threats including ransomware gangs and state-sponsored actors identify manufacturing as a preferred target, manufacturers struggle to respond to this threat with their current security tools and practices.

How to Monitor Microsoft IIS with OpenTelemetry

The OpenTelemetry members at observIQ are excited to add Microsoft IIS metric monitoring support to OpenTelemetry! You can now easily monitor your IIS web servers with the oIQ OpenTelemetry Collector. You can add the IIS metric receiver to any OpenTelemetry collector. This post demonstrates just one configuration for shipping metrics with OpenTelemetry components. This configuration and many other observIQ OpenTelemetry configurations are available in the oIQ Opentelemetry Collector.

Monitor FoundationDB with Datadog

FoundationDB is a distributed NoSQL database designed to support fully ACID transactions. FoundationDB uses an unbundled architecture that consists of an in-memory transaction management system, a distributed storage system, and a built-in distributed configuration system. This enables developers using FoundationDB to manage and configure each part of their database layer separately to ensure desired scalability, high-availability, and fault tolerance.

Docker Log Rotation Configuration | Container Logging for Beginners - Sematext

Docker logs are one of the primary sources of information developers use to spot problems with their apps. However, Docker log files can get huge in a short amount of time. This is why you absolutely must configure Docker log rotation! 🔥Today, we will explain how to free up space on the host machine of your Docker containers. We will also look at how to set up a centralized logging solution for free to get the most out of your Docker logs.