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How to Generate Metrics from Logs | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In this video, you’ll learn how to generate metrics using log events attributes to filter your logs more effectively and begin monitoring, graphing and alerting on the new metric immediately. Generating metrics from logs is a powerful tool for monitoring attributes which are parsed from your logs.

Though the crisis: AXA IM

Our customer base was impacted globally by COVID-19, and we were honored to be able to support them whenever and however we could. Now, in this new Through the Crisis series, they’ll be sharing some of their stories from the IT frontline. The first contribution comes from Christophe Verducci, Head of Proximity Services at leading financial services provider AXA IM.

Integrate 2020 Remote - Day 2

With Day 1 of the event rolled up, the platform was all set for the next day of the event. Day 2 of Integrate 2020 has been one roller-coaster experience for the attendees with some amazing sessions and certainly, loads of updates from the Microsoft Product Team and MVPs. So, for those who missed it out, make use of this blog.

Datadog on Kubernetes

When 2 years ago Datadog decided to move its infrastructure platform to Kubernetes we didn’t expect to find so many roadblocks, but ingesting trillions of datapoints per day in a reliable fashion requires pushing the limits of cloud computing. Creating and managing dozens of clusters, with thousands of nodes each and operating in several clouds was a challenging but rewarding learning experience. In this episode Ara Pulido, Developer Advocate, will chat with Laurent Bernaille, Staff Engineer at Datadog and part of the team that created Datadog’s Kubernetes platform. We’ll cover the challenges we found creating and scaling Datadog’s Kubernetes platform and how we overcame them.

KMC - Running a Multi-Cluster Service Mesh in Rancher

If you are or your organization is running Kubernetes, then it's likely that you are running more than one cluster. This model works well for most, but starts to break down when microservices and service mesh enter the discussion. However, with some additional configuration and tooling , a multicluster mesh can take advantage of distributed Kubernetes environments and the services therein. In this Master Class, recorded on June 20, 2020, Rancher Field Engineer Jason Skrzypek discusses and demos a multi-cluster service mesh running Istio.

Advanced Guide to Kibana Timelion

Kibana Timelion is a time-series based visualization language that enables you to analyze time-series data in a more flexible way. compared to other visualization types that Kibana offers. Instead of using a visual editor to create visualizations, Timelion uses a combination of chained functions, with a unique syntax, to depict any visualization, as complex as it may be.

Ideas for Combatting DoD Mobile Security Threats

In government, mobile devices are both embraced and resisted. The mobility and ease of use afforded by smartphones and tablets helps boost worker productivity even as they open doors for hackers. According to research by Wandera, in 2018 there were 455,121 mobile phishing attacks, 1.9 million Wi-Fi incidents, and 32,846 malware attacks.