Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Streaming telemetry holds the promise of radically improving the reliability and performance of today’s complex network infrastructures, but it does come with caveats. In the first of a new series, Kentik CEO Avi Freedman covers streaming telemetry’s history and original development.

The benefits of going cloud-native are far reaching: faster scaling, increased flexibility, and reduced infrastructure costs. According to Gartner®, “by 2027, more than 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 40% in 2021.” Yet, while the adoption of containers and Kubernetes is growing, it comes with increased operational complexity, especially around monitoring and visibility.

Overview of what is high cardinality in the context of monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.

Papertrail has had the ability to alert on searches that match events for years, but what about when they don’t? When a cron job, backup, or other recurring job doesn’t run, it’s not easy to notice the absence of an expected message. But now, Papertrail can do the noticing for you with inactivity alerts. Papertrail inactivity alerts allow you to setup notifications when searches don’t match events.

Embedded systems often require a careful eye to where memory resources are being spent, especially runtime memory utilization like stack and heap memories. This article is intended to shed some light on strategies for measuring stack memory usage on a small embedded system.

It was a nice sunny morning, the weather really with us, for our Icinga Camp Berlin this year. When I peeked outside after helping with the setup, people were already mingling, getting ready to check in and get their first coffee to prepare for the day ahead. Bernd took the stage, welcoming everyone with genuine enthusiasm, setting the tone for what promised to be an engaging event. Surrounded by our community, I felt right at home – ready to dive into the talks and connect with new friends.

Looking to share a group of repos with someone? In this update, we’re introducing easier Workspace collaboration along with other power ups for your everyday version control. Let’s dive in and discover what’s new!

Today’s IT systems are ever more fragmented. It is commonplace to see polyglot systems, written in multiple programming languages, and using a plethora of tools and cloud services as infrastructure building blocks, whether data stores, web proxy or other functions. In this dynamic cloud-native realm, open standards and open specifications have become integral drivers of compatibility, collaboration, and convergence – the Three C’s of Open Standards, if you will.

With over 236,000 total vulnerabilities currently known – and an average 61 new vulnerabilities added every day to the NVD – it’s impossible to remediate every single CVE or threat vector that appears. So, how do everyday organizations handle the continuously growing threats to their organization’s end users, customers and data – especially across an increasingly hybrid and remote Everywhere Workplace?

With remote work now commonplace, having a good cyber hygiene program is crucial for organizations who want to survive in today’s threat landscape. This includes promoting a culture of individual cybersecurity awareness and deploying the right security tools, which are both critical to the program’s success. Some of these tools include endpoint patching, endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and antivirus software.