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AWS Fargate Monitoring

How do you perform AWS Fargate monitoring? Today, we’ll discuss the background of AWS Fargate and using Retrace to monitor your code. As companies evolve from a monolithic architecture to microservice architectures, some common challenges often surface that companies must address during the journey. In this post, we’ll discuss one of these challenges: observability and how to do it in AWS Fargate.

Updated ELK Stack Guide For 2022 (Installation, Tutorials & More)

The ELK Stack has millions of users globally due to its effectiveness for log management, SIEM, alerting, data analytics, e-commerce site search and data visualisation. In this extensive guide (updated for 2021) we cover all of the essential basics you need to know to get started with installing ELK, exploring its most popular use cases and the leading integrations you’ll want to start ingesting your logs and metrics data from.

The eCommerce Holiday Calendar for DevOps

Seasonal spikes in consumer activity are expected, if not depended on, by online retailers throughout the calendar year. However, as shoppers rush to compete over door-buster deals and order holiday must-haves, web traffic escalates to levels standard resource allocation cannot easily sustain. This spike in traffic can lead to unresponsive checkouts, lost or abandoned carts, and slow-loading pages, ultimately resulting in thousands of dollars in lost revenue.

Innovations in cloud network security

Learn about innovations in cloud network security over a global network. This includes Google Cloud innovations released this year from DDoS and Web Application Firewall (WAF), Google Cloud Armor, Google Cloud firewalls, and Google Cloud IDS - the newest network based intrusion detection solution.

3 Ways Ops Teams Benefit From LM Logs

Sifting through logs in real-time or post-mortem to pinpoint the problem can take hours – and is often like trying to find the needle in the alert/log haystack. Further, keeping the troubleshooting process efficient can be a challenge due to context switching and relying on manual interpretation of events and technology-specific knowledge.

AMA Responses: Icinga Web and Modules

00:10 Why are there some issues and PRs that have not been looked at for some time?

01:34 Are there plans to increase the number of people working on the Director?

01:51 Why is there such a discrepancy between the HA functionality in Icinga 2 versus Icinga Web 2 and its modules? And will this improve in the future?

03:17 Will it be possible to tunnel module traffic with the Icinga traffic? Is something planned for managing for example x509 in a distributed setup?

AWS CloudWatch Alarms - A Startup Guide

While more businesses are moving their apps to the cloud, they must also ensure that cloud-based services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other resources remain available. So, how can you make sure these cloud services aren't turned off? You can accomplish this using a tool like Amazon CloudWatch, which monitors applications. What is AWS CloudWatch will be the subject of this article.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample JIRA Health dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and Tim Wheeler as they showcase this example Jira Health Status dashboard. Offering a quick view of the state of your next release, alongside the health of the Jira project as a whole, this dashboard uses SquaredUp’s Web API and PowerShell tiles to improve on Jira’s native dashboarding capabilities. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.

Monitoring network security with Aruba Clearpass, Grafana and Graphite

In this article, we will explore why it is imperative to constantly monitor network security metrics, what Aruba Clearpass is, and how it helps us manage network security. Then we will look at what Graphite and Grafana are and how to analyze metrics with their help. Finally, we will learn how MetricFire can make it easier for us to work with Graphite and Grafana.