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Virtual Meetup: Monitoring the COVID-19 Outbreak Using Elastic Stack

Melvyn Peignon, Elastic Education Architect, will be sharing information about Kibana, with an example of how to build your own personalized dashboard to track COVID-19 outbreak around the globe, using a public data source, of course. In this presentation, you are going to learn how easy it is to index any kind of data in Elasticsearch, transform it using ingest node and analyze it using Kibana visualizations, dashboards and maps.

How to Ensure Great IT Performance for Remote Employees

Things are about to get real in so many ways. Companies are telling employees to work from home, which sounds great in theory — less contact, less chance for the COVID-19 virus to spread. But what about the strain it’s going to place on your IT infrastructure? Your employees will be connecting over a remote virtual infrastructure (Citrix, VMware, AWS, etc) and accessing a variety of in-house web applications (Java, .NET etc.) and SaaS services (Office 365).

Dashbird vs. AWS CloudWatch

At this moment, billions of people are rushing to the internet for work, entertainment, shopping - everything, really. It’s great that we developed this virtual world and can keep the lights on, despite what’s happening outside. On the other hand, cloud systems and developers are under pressure to meet an unparalleled demand. At Dashbird, we have always thought developers deserve the most efficient tools to discover and resolve issues in order to keep cloud apps running smoothly.

11 Tools to Perform Technical SEO Audit in 2020

In 2019, Google has rolled out lots of updates out of which March 2019 Core Update, June Core Update, September Search Reviews update, and BERT were the major ones. BERT update was intended to better understand long-tail and conversational search queries while June Core Update impacted the websites that failed to implement E-A-T (Expertise, Authority, and Trust) Guidelines. On September 16, 2019, Google released a new algorithmic update to review (crawl and index) review snippets/search results.

Chasing a Hidden Gem: Graph Analytics with Splunk's Machine Learning Toolkit

Do you like gems? Perfectly cut diamonds? Crystal clear structures of superior beauty? You do? Then join me on a 10 minute read about a quest for hidden gems in your data: graphs! Be warned, it is going to be a mysterious journey into data philosophy. But you will be rewarded with artifacts that you can use to start your gemstone mining journey today.

Remote Work: Splunk + Zoom

As everyone is taking proactive measures to stay healthy, organizations are increasingly having their employees work from home. At Splunk, we are focused on bringing data to every question, decision and action — and remote work for us equals Zoom for online meetings and workspaces. As our customers use Splunk for real-time data processing and analytics, they use our Splunk Mobile App (Android, iOS) when they need to take their dashboards on the go.

February 2020 Downtime Report

February kicked 2020 off with a terrifying glimpse into what happens when the Internet of Things stops Internetting things. If we consider our central question this year of uptime in the age of always-connected, then we start to see the impact of hidden failures. All the stuff we don’t know we know impacts the end-user. Someone forgets to renew a TLS certificate, half the business world can’t collaborate. Someone else flubs an update?