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How essential is monitoring your AWS services?

Organizations around the world are increasingly relying on the cloud to capitalize on its speed, ease of management and scalability, and the business value it provides to transform and grow their business. It’s an ever-growing market that is currently estimated at 266.4 billion dollars—a whopping 982.9 percent increase in growth compared to a decade ago when it was worth a little over 24.6 billion dollars.

Fargate vs. Lambda: Serverless in AWS

Serverless computing has taken off in recent years as engineering organizations have shied away from the complexity and cost that comes with managing physical servers and even virtual machines hosted on a cloud like AWS. If you are interested in serverless options on AWS, you should be comparing Lambda and ECS Fargate to figure out what fits your use case best. In this blog post we will compare these two AWS services in the following areas...

Threat Hunting with Elastic APM

Learn how APM lets you monitor the performance of applications deployed anywhere within your network. Now you can use APM data to hunt for threats and injection attacks, too. Elastic provides a common data platform so you can view HTTP data collected with your APM agents in the Elastic SIEM app. It’s seamless monitoring and protection to keep your systems up, running, and secure.

PagerDuty Microsoft Teams Integration

Drive real-time ChatOps and Empower HybridOps with the PagerDuty and Microsoft Teams integration. With millions of daily users, Microsoft Teams is an essential communication and collaboration tool for many businesses. Many modern IT Ops and DevOps teams count on Teams to keep everyone on the same page when things are running smoothly—and perhaps even more so when they aren’t.

Plugin showcase: The hourly heatmap panel, built on Grafana's new plugin platform

Since Petr Slavotinek created the Carpet plot plugin in 2017, it’s been one of the most popular community plugins for Grafana. Unfortunately, even though the Carpet plot plugin continues to be useful to many users, it’s no longer being maintained. Grafana 7.0 introduced a brand new React-based platform, along with a set of improved APIs for building plugins.