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Platform Speed Increased Between 5x & 10x With NVMe Upgrade

We are pleased to announce that all users can now benefit from having their stacks hosted on NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) SSDs. NVMe is one of the newest high-performance networking technologies changing the landscape of scalable infrastructure and assisting in decreasing infrastructure costs on a revolutionary scale.

Challenges in Monitoring Applications That Use OAuth

In the internet ecosystem of increasingly intertwined applications, when one application wants to perform some action on another application on the behalf of a user, a need arises of how to do this without sharing the password of one application to another. A common example of this is sign-in with Facebook by apps that want to post something on your timeline or want to access your Google Drive.

How to Overcome the Drawbacks of SIEM Tools

These days, “SIEM” (Security Information and Event Management) is all over the place. SIEM tools work by collecting data from multiple systems and noticing patterns in the data. This adds immediate value to the business by providing insights, security recommendations, and actionable intelligence. Despite being helpful tools for many companies, SIEM tools do have their drawbacks. This article will describe the four main ones and offer suggestions for how they might be overcome.

Common causes of a website's downtime. Why does a website go down?

May 31, 2020, WebGazer Team We are living in a highly competitive world. One where many businesses leverage on the internet to get ahead of their competitors. Having a beautifully constructed website with rich SEO content is one way to drive traffic to your site and business. But just having a website is not enough. As a matter of fact, a website could do more harm to your business than good.

Integrating Traces and Logs with OpenTelemetry - Stack Doctor

Tracing is a great way to monitor your services, but how does one go about fixing latency issues in a specific service? In this episode of Stack Doctor, Yuri Grinshteyn shows you how to connect traces with logs via OpenTelemetry and Cloud Trace and Logging, enabling you to pinpoint and debug service latency issues in a snap!

Best practices for monitoring GCP audit logs

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services for deploying, managing, and monitoring applications. A critical part of deploying reliable applications is securing your infrastructure. Google Cloud Audit Logs record the who, where, and when for activity within your environment, providing a breadcrumb trail that administrators can use to monitor access and detect potential threats across your resources (e.g., storage buckets, databases, service accounts, virtual machines).

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GrafanaCONline Day 10 recap: what's new in Grafana Cloud Graphite and Metrictank

Welcome to the third and final week of GrafanaCONline! We hope you’re able to check out our last day of online sessions today. If you didn’t get a chance to watch yesterday’s sessions (or want to watch them again), here’s what you missed on day 10 of the conference.

Cloud Infrastructure Means Shifted Responsibilities

The shift to cloud infrastructure does not remove the need for infrastructure management and administrators but rather necessitates a shift in their responsibilities. Cloud infrastructure has grown to be a ubiquitous part of the modern software industry. This is an amazing growth when you realize that Amazon did not announce Amazon Web Services, starting with Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2), until 2006.