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CrashLoopBackOff is a Kubernetes state representing a restart loop that is happening in a Pod: a container in the Pod is started, but crashes and is then restarted, over and over again. Kubernetes will wait an increasing back-off time between restarts to give you a chance to fix the error. As such, CrashLoopBackOff is not an error on itself, but indicates that there’s an error happening that prevents a Pod from starting properly.

In the quest for business transformation and digital modernization, organizations have rapidly adopted devops frameworks, microservice architectures, serverless technologies, and containerized infrastructures. However, they have realized that legacy tools cannot adequately address the newer security and monitoring challenges associated with modernization. Sysdig’s mission is to make every cloud platform secure and reliable from source to run.

Welcome to another month of What’s New in Sysdig in 2022! I’m Joshua Ma, a Customer Solutions Engineer based out of sunny Los Angeles. I joined the Customer Success team at Sysdig five months ago. After having my first taste of K8s, containers, and Falco at the North America KubeCon/CloudNativeCon in 2019, I haven’t looked back since!

Kubernetes 1.25 is about to be released, and it comes packed with novelties! Where do we begin? This release brings 40 enhancements, on par with the 46 in Kubernetes 1.24 and 45 in Kubernetes 1.23. Of those 46 enhancements, 13 are graduating to Stable, 10 are existing features that keep improving, 15 are completely new, and two are deprecated features.

It’s time for another publication of What’s New in Sysdig in 2022! I’m in charge of the “What’s new in Sysdig” blog for the month of July! Hello, I’m Tom Linkin, a Sr. Solutions Engineer based in the Poconos up in Pennsylvania. I joined the incredible group of people at Sysdig nine months ago and have been helping support sales in the greater NYC region ever since.

PHP is one of the most popular open source programming languages on the internet, used for web development platforms such as Magento, WordPress, or Drupal. In addition to all PHP bases, PHP-FPM is the most popular alternative implementation of PHP FastCGI. It has additional features which are really useful for high-traffic websites. In this article, you’ll learn how to monitor PHP-FPM with Prometheus.

Prometheus 2.37 is out and brings exciting news: this is the first long-term supported release. It’ll be supported for at least six months.

Today, we are excited to announce support for Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams. This support will enable our customers to ingest metrics from AWS CloudWatch in real time, increase metric and state fidelity and time to ingestion while decreasing MTTR, and support cloud metrics at scale without the need to customize or re-configure new AWS service metrics. In this blog, we dig deep into.

nginx is an open source web server often used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and web cache. Designed for high loads of concurrent connections, it’s fast, versatile, reliable, and most importantly, very light on resources. In this article, you’ll learn how to monitor nginx in Kubernetes with Prometheus, and also how to troubleshoot different issues related to latency, saturation, etc.