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DevOps tools for compliance monitoring

Monitoring and compliance are, in many ways, synonymous. At the very least, there’s a big overlap in terms of defining and monitoring rulesets you care about. The time frame may vary; with monitoring, you might jump on an alert right away, as opposed to the compliance team’s quarterly audit, but the foundation remains the same. As our development cycles grow ever more dynamic, the need for automating repetitive tasks becomes all the more important.

Introducing Android Crash Reporting with BugSplat

BugSplat users can now collect Android crashes with the Crashpad SDK. If you're supporting a cross-platform C++ application, porting a C++ application to Android, or creating a new NDK library from scratch, you can now use BugSplat to track, collect, and debug your Android crashes. This will bring the same in-depth view of crash events you get with BugSplat on other languages to your Android application.

Support for Crashpad Attachments

BugSplat now supports attachments for Crashpad out of the box. Developers can include additional files with the Crashpad crash upload using the newest release of the BugSplat Crashpad SDK. This release includes updated examples that show how to include Crashpad attachments for Windows, Linux, Android, Qt Windows, and Qt Linux (but not yet for macOS). Before this change, including attachments with Crashpad out of the box was difficult.

The Magnificent Seven: New Ways to Get More Out of Your Microsoft and Splunk Environment

As a leading global provider of cloud computing services with a business critical software portfolio, Microsoft is a key Splunk partner. In our mission to empower customers with data, we are delighted to share a few of the latest integrations, dashboards, and reference guides that help you extract even more value from your Microsoft environments. Here’s a peek at what we’ve been working on lately.

Running Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana on Kubernetes with Helm

Kubernetes (or “K8s”) is an open-source container orchestration tool developed by Google. In this tutorial, we will be leveraging the power of Kubernetes to look at how we can overcome some of the operational challenges of working with the Elastic Stack.

[KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU recap] Getting some Thanos into Cortex while scaling Prometheus

Yesterday at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Grafana Labs software engineer Marco Pracucci, a Cortex and Thanos maintainer, teamed up with Thor Hansen, a software engineer at Hashicorp, to give a presentation called “Scaling Prometheus: How we got some Thanos into Cortex.” In their talk, the pair discussed a new storage engine they have built into Cortex, how it can reduce the Cortex operational cost without compromising scalability and performance, and lessons learned from running Cortex at s

Splunk Redefines Application Performance Monitoring with SignalFx Microservices APM

Splunk has a new Application Performance Monitoring solution purpose-built for monitoring and observability in today’s app-driven world: SignalFx Microservices APM. Learn from Rick Fitz, SVP and GM of IT Markets, and Karthik Rau, Area GM for Application Management, about the new release of SignalFx Microservices APM and how it helps DevOps teams innovate faster, elevate customer experience, and future-proof applications — all while adopting cloud-native technologies and microservices architectures.

What Are Traceroutes? | Obkio

What are Traceroutes and how exactly do they help you troubleshoot network problems? Traceroute is the most popular tool that network engineers use to troubleshoot network problems. It was invented in 1987 and is still highly relevant today. As its name suggests, the main purpose of a traceroute is to trace the IP route from a source to a destination inside an IP network. It shows users the round-trip latency from the source to each of the routers. Traceroute commands are available on almost any host.