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What's New in Sysdig - February 2023

What’s New in Sysdig is back again with the February 2023 edition! I am Michael Rudloff, an Enterprise Sales Engineer based in the United Kingdom, and I am very excited to update you with the latest feature releases from Sysdig. This month, Sysdig Secure brings a couple of new features. We have added reports to Risk Spotlight – Risk Spotlight can show you which packages with vulnerabilities are currently in use in a running container across your whole Kubernetes environment.

The Cloud Monitoring Journey

Monitoring is not a goal, but a path. Depending on the maturity of your project, it can be labeled in one of these six steps of the cloud monitoring journey. You will find best practices for all of them and examine what companies get from each one. From classic virtual machines to large Kubernetes clusters or even serverless architectures, companies have adopted the cloud as a mainstream way to provide their online services.

What is the ImagePullBackoff error in Kubernetes and how to fix it?

Like CrashLoopBackoff, the ImagePullBackoff is not an error but a waiting status you might see in your kubernetes pods, with the backoff time increasing after every retry. The error itself is "ErrImagePull", and it happens when there are issues when pulling the container image to the kubernetes node. So how do you solve these pull errors? Take a look at our video to get some ideas on how to resolve the various issues!

Prometheus Alertmanager best practices

Have you ever fallen asleep to the sounds of your on-call team in a Zoom call? If you’ve had the misfortune to sympathize with this experience, you likely understand the problem of Alert Fatigue firsthand. During an active incident, it can be exhausting to tease the upstream root cause from downstream noise while you’re context switching between your terminal and your alerts. This is where Alertmanager comes in, providing a way to mitigate each of the problems related to Alert Fatigue.

What is a Container Image?

What does it mean to build a container image? What are layers in docker images? How do you make sense of all the commands and instructions in a dockerfile? Why is it better to use slim base images vs full linux distros? In this video, we answer these questions, and more! While it's easy to create your container images from a dockerfile, there might be some technicalities hidden behind the tools that you need to understand.

Sysdig Monitor introduces native support for Microsoft Azure Monitor

Microsoft Azure Monitor allows customers to get critical details about their Azure cloud environments and services. The API for Azure Monitor can be a great way for teams to pull this information into their own storage systems for further analysis. However, it can be an overwhelming amount of data to process. Sysdig can help with this problem and eliminate time and effort. Here is how we do it …

Exploiting IAM security misconfigurations and how to detect them

These three IAM security misconfiguration scenarios are rather common. Discover how they can be exploited, but also, how easy it is to detect and correct them. Identity and access management (IAM) misconfigurations are one of the most common concerns in cloud security. Over the last few years, we have seen how these security holes put organizations at increased risk of experiencing serious attacks on their Cloud accounts.

Our Journey Into Cutting Kubernetes Costs by 40%

As companies start their Kubernetes and cloud-native journey, cloud infrastructures and services grow at a rapid pace. This happens all too often as organizations shift left without thorough controls, which can lead to overallocating and overspending on their Kubernetes environments. Organizations running workloads in the cloud can put budgets at risk when they lack information about key facts.