Synthetic monitoring takes care of all of the small interactions on our website that QA can’t catch. If you’re building an application for the web, a transaction check is an integral part of proactive downtime resolution. What we call transaction monitoring, or a transaction check, is a set of instructions that a probe server follows.
Next in our series on the Amazon Builders’ Library, Mike Roberts of Symphonia picks out the key insights from the article Going faster with Continuous Delivery by AWS senior manager of software development Mark Mansour.
What do a test engineer and a DevOps or SRE team member have in common? The reality is that different teams need to proactively understand what is happening in production at critical milestones along the software engineering delivery cycle. In the words of Abby Bangser, senior test engineer at Moo, “Testing has so much in common with Ops and SRE teams. We need to ask interesting questions of production. We need no more debates whether a bug gets fixed.
With almost all deployed software systems consisting of multiple moving parts, it’s hard to find arguments against centralized aggregation of log entries. Deployment technologies like lightweight virtualization, Kubernetes, and serverless computing tend to spread out the components of a system across a large number of runtime primitives. Gaining visibility into the state and history of such systems is as important as ever but can also be more difficult than ever.
For several months, the Intelligence & Analytics team at Elastic Security has tracked an ongoing adversary campaign appearing to target Ukranian government officials. Based on our monitoring, we believe Gamaredon Group, a suspected Russia-based threat group, is behind this campaign. Our observations suggest a significant overlap between tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) included within this campaign and public reporting.
