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Top 5 Web Monitoring Services of 2022

Want to find the best web monitoring service? You’ve come to the right place. There is no one-size-fits-all monitoring service for every business, so it’s important to do your research and see all the options you have. The worst part about that? You have to do the research with your precious time. The good news? We’ve done the research so you can have a place to start in your journey. Determining the best web monitoring services requires research into important factors.

How to Deploy a Cribl Stream Leader, Cribl Stream Worker, and Redis Containers via Docker

As mentioned in our documentation, Cribl Stream is built on a shared-nothing architecture. Each Worker Node and its processes operate separately and independently. This means that the state is not shared across processes or nodes.This means that if we have a large data set we need to access across all worker processes, we have to get creative. There are two main ways of doing this: In this blog, we’ll walk through how to deploy a Stream leader, Stream worker, and Redis containers via Docker.

Comparing Amazon ECS launch types: EC2 vs. Fargate

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that enables users to easily run, manage and scale containers on AWS. With ECS, you can deploy containers either on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances or on AWS Fargate, a serverless computing engine for containers. In this article, we’ll look at how these two launch types compare and explore how to start using them.

Parsing and enriching log data for troubleshooting in Elastic Observability

In an earlier blog post, Log monitoring and unstructured log data, moving beyond tail -f, we talked about collecting and working with unstructured log data. We learned that it’s very easy to add data to the Elastic Stack. So far the only parsing we did was to extract the timestamp from this data, so older data gets backfilled correctly. We also talked about searching this unstructured data toward the end of the blog.

Your PKI infrastructure is worthless if ...

A common mistake IT organizations make, is having a well-designed Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), but at the same time having client devices, such as monitoring agents for your Citrix NetScalers, which accept to set up any encrypted connection, to any device, no matter what certificate they are presenting. In this case, you basically allow connections to be made to devices you do not know whether they can be trusted. This makes you vulnerable for 'spoofing'.

Combining APM and RUM to Improve Your User Experience

Providing an intuitive user experience that caters to your audience’s needs is essential for your business. By combining APM and RUM, you can help eliminate application issues and give your users a seamless experience. Combining APM and RUM helps you look at both the front-end and back-end of your application, find and fix issues. Don’t quite know what APM and RUM are? Let’s take a closer look.

Trust Me - I'm a SASE Solution

As we get ready to wish the term SASE a happy 4th birthday, it seems odd that there is still a great deal of confusion in the market about what SASE really is and how it relates to a ‘Zero Trust’ architecture. For many, SASE is a framework for secure network design; for others, it’s seen more as an architectural approach to delivering Zero Trust. So why do we have this confusion when Gartner defined SASE back in 2019?

Top 10 Best Website Monitoring Tools [2023 Update]

Nothing is more important than a healthy, functioning website. It is essential to monitor your website to make sure it remains functioning, fast, and available to your customers. For example, imagine your website goes down and you aren’t aware of it for another hour. How much business could you lose in that time? Or worse, what long-term damage could it do to your brand reputation?