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Splunk Connect for Syslog: Turnkey and Scalable Syslog GDI - Part 3

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we explored the design philosophy behind Splunk Connect for Syslog (SC4S), the goals of the design, and the new HEC-based transport architecture, as well as the rudiments of high-level configuration. We'll now turn our attention to the specifics of SC4S configuration, including a review of the local (mounted) file system layout and the areas in which you'll be working.

Generate Code Coverage Reports using Coveralls and Codefresh

Coveralls is a web service that allows users to track the code coverage of their application over time in order to optimize the effectiveness of their unit tests. Once you are managing your application and associated resources within a CI/CD platform like Codefresh, you want to receive insights on the test coverage automatically with every pipeline build. This post provides an overview of how this can be achieved with Coveralls and Codefresh.

Splunk Connect for Syslog: Turnkey and Scalable Syslog GDI - Part 4

Previous installments of this series have given you the overview and configuration details you need to ingest any source that is supported by Splunk Connect for Syslog and configure customizations and overrides that match your enterprise. This leaves one key capability of SC4S that we have not yet covered, and that is extending the platform itself. In this installment, we'll walk through the configuration of an entirely new data source – one that SC4S does address out of the box.

In the aftermath of the SolarWinds hack, IT Ops leaders should reconsider on-premises tooling investments

Solarwinds is a 21-year old publicly traded monitoring and network management vendor with 300,000+ customers across the world. It’s familiar to IT operations and monitoring teams across enterprises big and small. And this week, it found itself in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Cooking the perfect holiday ham with IoT, Prometheus, and you

With the holidays upon us around the world, some folks here at Sysdig decided to take a technological approach to holiday cooking. How, you ask? By adding a little PromQL to the mix. A home kitchen during the holidays can be a very frenetic place. There are often many, many dishes being prepared at the same time and cooked in sequence. Some are short and easy, others can take several hours. It’s inevitable that a dish will get missed, or a step forgotten.

Using Mattermost as a tool for COVID-19 contact tracing

VCLB Ghent is a Belgian non-profit organization that serves pupils between the ages of 3 and 18 years old. Every two years, we offer students a free medical checkup. The organization also works with schools to support students that struggle with learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and other issues. As a multidisciplinary team, VCLB Ghent’s staff does contact tracing for schools in the event of an outbreak of a contagious disease, such as meningitis, hepatitis, or measles.

Top 49 Must Have DevOps tools for 2021

Creating software products without DevOps and DevOps tools is nearly impossible today. Unless you are a huge fan of buggy code and chaotic version deployments. Development Operations professionals, combine IT, QA, infrastructure, and even some development tasks in their work. Devops are increasingly important members of any R&D department aiming to efficiently produce and deploy software products.

How to perform a zero-downtime upgrade of Elasticsearch in production

Many users need their Elasticsearch clusters to always be available. And a lot of these same users also want to upgrade their Elasticsearch environment when a new version is released, so they can take advantage of all the new features and functionality. The result is that admins end up upgrading the Elasticsearch engine while it is operating at full capacity in production. Sound too good to be true?