Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Dashbird explained

Dashbird is an observability, debugging, and intelligence platform designed specifically to help serverless developers build, operate, improve, and scale their modern cloud applications on AWS environment fast, securely, and with ease. It’s free to use for up to 1M invocations and doesn’t require any code changes. Dashbird fills the gaps left by CloudWatch and other traditional monitoring tools by offering enhanced out-of-the-box monitoring, operations, and actionable insights tools for architectural improvements, all in one place.

Supervisors in xMatters - xMatters Support

Join Chris Patch, xMatters’ Senior eLearning Specialist, as he outlines the privileges of supervisors in xMatters. Supervisors can modify the user profile of any user they supervise, as well as can view their groups, change their login details, and sign out of the mobile app on their behalf if their account has been compromised.

Azure Security Tips & Tricks

In our very first episode, we have got Paul Stringfellow, the podcast enthusiast with proven ideas to help you enhance the security of your Azure infrastructure. This episode features an in-depth conversation of “why security” should be the top priority for any organization designing an infrastructure/application. Further, the expert shows how different it is to secure a cloud solution than an on-premise one, emphasizing that traditional security models are no longer the right way to protect complex cloud integrations.

Build VS Buy: How to get the most out of your SCOM monitoring

Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager, SCOM, is one of several monitoring platforms available on the market. It is widely adopted and has great potential to help you create a stable and robust IT environment. To succeed with that, however, is not always straightforward. To fully benefit from SCOM, the right resources need to be in place and optimized- time, competence, and money.

Solving specific use cases with CFEngine policy and providing reusable modules

With the release of build.cfengine.com, I have been working to migrate some of our own security related policy into modules of their own. CFEngine Build and the cfbs tooling allows us to organize policy into modules, which are easy to update independently and share with other users. Let’s take the scenic route and look at what life is like with cfbs. One of our security policies requires that the password hashing algorithm in /etc/login.defs is set to SHA512.

Creating a Free Data Lake with Coralogix

Like many cool tools out there, this project started from a request made by a customer of ours. Having recently migrated to our service, this customer had ~30TB of historical logging data. This is a considerable amount of operational data to leave behind when moving from one SaaS platform to another. Unfortunately, most observability solutions are built around the working assumption that data flows are future-facing.