Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Postmortems: What We Learned When Container Vulnerability Scanning Was Missing

In the world of cloud-native development, containers are the bedrock of agility and scale. They allow teams to package applications and their dependencies into a single, portable unit that runs consistently across any environment. But this convenience comes with a hidden risk. Every container image is built from layers, and each layer-from the base operating system to the application libraries-can harbor vulnerabilities. Forgetting to implement robust security measures for these containers is a lesson many companies learn the hard way.

Settle Your QA Debt Before the Bugs Start Breaking Kneecaps

In Part One, we discussed how QA debt builds silently over time — causing slower releases, late-night firefights, and unpredictable test cycles. The next step is understanding how much debt you have and where it hides. This post goes deeper into measuring QA debt — what to track, how to collect data, and how to use those insights to create a sustainable plan for improvement.
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Avantra + Ansible: Better Together for Enterprise SAP Automation

Enterprises trust Ansible for fast, reliable infrastructure automation, including terraform for automated cloud provisioning. Many organizations using Ansible leverage Ansible SAP playbooks for SAP infrastructure automation. Avantra extends the scope of SAP operations using Ansible, adding observability, ITSM and ALM solution integration, and orchestration across the SAP estate. Avantra and Ansible together provide a closed-loop solution where monitoring, automation and proof of outcome live in one place across on-premise, hyperscaler and private cloud ERP implementations.

Automate CockroachDB Schema Changes with Harness Database DevOps

Harness Database DevOps now supports CockroachDB, bringing CI/CD automation to distributed SQL databases. Teams can manage schema changes through Git-driven workflows for consistency, traceability, and rollback safety. This integration simplifies multi-environment deployments, reduces human error, and accelerates database delivery.

BygoneSSL and the certificate that wouldn't die

Turns out the scariest thing about SSL certificates isn’t when they expire. It’s when they don’t. I wrote about the CA/Browser fight that led to the 47-day certificate mandate. CAs crying about lost revenue, browsers flexing their root program authority, enterprises stuck in the middle. But nobody talks about the security research that started it all: BygoneSSL at DEFCON 2018. Two researchers mining Certificate Transparency logs found something surprising.

Streams: Elastic's New AI That Turns Log Chaos into Clarity

Elastic just made every SRE’s life easier. With the new Elastic Streams, AI automatically organizes, structures, and analyzes billions of logs, helping you find issues, detect anomalies, and fix problems in minutes, not hours. See how Elastic’s deep generative AI core turns chaos into clarity for Site Reliability Engineers and developers worldwide.

Find Any Setting in Seconds #admin #search

Find any admin setting instantly! With Smart Search, locate where to manage users and roles, set branding, tweak specific workflows, or adjust any other setting in your Alloy Navigator -- in seconds. Perfect for admins who want full control right from their browser and love speed. Admin Search and other great features arrived in the Fall 2025 release of Alloy Navigator, for both Enterprise and Express editions.

A Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DEM

ITRS has been named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring — for the second year running. We’ve spent another year working alongside you to solve real problems, scale what works, and prepare for what’s next. If you’re delivering resilient, high-performing digital experiences while meeting evolving compliance demands, our direction is shaped by your needs.

Data Sovereignty + AI: How Civo's New Cloud Gives You Full Control

We spot the tipping point: AI is reshaping every industry and data has become the new oil. From law firms to pharma labs, SaaS stacks to even a secret chicken recipe, today’s most valuable info is trapped in a handful of hyperscalers with almost no governance. Our UK‑based survey of 1,000 IT leaders shows the pressure is real. Most are ready to abandon big‑tech for true control and sovereignty. Civo’s answer is a new kind of cloud: built from the ground up, 100 % data‑sovereignty, and designed for more value, simplicity, and flexibility.