Logs are unpredictable. Following a production incident, and precisely when you need them the most, logs can suddenly surge and overwhelm your logging infrastructure. To protect Logstash and Elasticsearch against such data bursts, users deploy buffering mechanisms to act as message brokers. Apache Kafka is the most common broker solution deployed together the ELK Stack.
Today we are happy to announce StackStorm v3.0.1. This is a first bug fix patch / patch release in the v3.0.x release series. It includes the following bug fixes and improvements...
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Barcelona last week, Weaveworks’ Bryan Boreham and I did a deep-dive session on Cortex, an OSS Apache-licensed CNCF Sandbox project. A horizontally scalable, highly available, long term storage for Prometheus, Cortex powers Grafana Cloud’s hosted Prometheus. During our talk, we focused on the steps that we’ve taken to make Cortex’s query performance awesome.
Containers, along with containerization technology like Docker and Kubernetes, have become increasingly common components in many developers’ toolkits. The goal of containerization, at its core, is to offer a better way to create, package, and deploy software across different environments in a predictable and easy-to-manage way.
We’re very happy to announce that our self-service automation portal for use with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft System Center Orchestrator has now been updated to Version 3! This release brings with it a number of upgrades and general improvements, plus the ability to create your own colour themes, so that you can truly make the portal your own and seamlessly integrate it into your organisation.
In the digital era, state and local government and education (SLED) agencies are increasingly leveraging new technological advances such as mobility, the cloud, and big data to better serve constituents while achieving cost efficiencies.
