Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

It’s the first day of summer and the perfect opportunity for our summer Sysdig Monitor release round up. For those of you following our progress, we use these blogs to showcase the work we’ve done to add increased functionality, scale, and usability with Sysdig Monitor. What follows are quick descriptions of all the good stuff we’ve made available over the past few months.

The toughest IT performance problems to solve today are the ones where a user complains that their application access is slow. An IT administrator must then figure out the cause of the problem: is it the browser, the network, the server, the storage, the cloud infrastructure on which the application is hosted, or the application code?

In our world of distributed systems, state changes to your infrastructure often take some time to propagate. With a few exceptions (for example, feature flags), single point in time changes are rare. Deploys, outages, database migrations, failovers, stress tests; none of these things are instantaneous – all have some duration during which the system is changing.

Intro to managing and running a containerized Java Spring Boot application. Docker is a platform for packaging, deploying, and running applications in containers. It can run containers on any system that supports the platform: a developer’s laptop, systems on “on-prem,” or in the cloud without modification. Images, the packages Docker uses for applications, are truly cross-platform.

Getting the right information at the right time can be a difficult task in large corporate IT infrastructures. Whether you are dealing with a security issue or an operational outage, the right data is key to prevent further breakdowns. With central log management, security analysts or IT operators have a single place to access server log data. But what happens if the one log file that is urgently needed is not collected by the system?

At the heart of any SIEM system is log data. A lot of it. Whether from servers, firewalls, databases, or network routers — logs provide analysts with the raw material for gaining insight into events taking place in an IT environment.