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7 Best Practices for Data Visualization

A look at best practices, no-code and low-code platforms you can use, common visualization types, criteria for good data visualization and more. Organizations regularly generate an overabundance of data that is essential for decision-making. Data visualizations play an important role in helping people understand complex data and observe patterns and trends over a period of time.

Distributed alerting with the Elastic Stack

Modern computing environments and distributed workforces have produced new challenges to traditional information security approaches. Many traditional threat detection and response strategies rely on homogeneous environments, system baselines, and consistent control implementations. These strategies have been built on traditional environment assumptions that may no longer be true in your environment with the evolution of cloud computing, remote work, and modern culture.

Elastic Synthetics Projects: A Git-friendly way to manage your synthetics monitors in Elastic Observability

Elastic has an entirely new Heartbeat/Synthetics workflow superior to the current workflow. If you’re a current user of the Elastic Uptime app, read on to learn about the improved workflow you can use today and should eventually migrate toward.

From Alert Madness to Incident Response Nirvana: An AIOps and ITPA Strategy

Complex environments are notorious for generating a high volume of alerts. For IT teams, this deluge presents a critical, time-consuming challenge. Managing alerts and incident response keeps these busy professionals under constant pressure and risks alert fatigue. Nonstop “noise” can desensitize people and actually lead to missed or ignored alerts—risking delayed responses and downtime. These high stakes make handling alerts a key security and productivity issue.

Ivanti Wavelink: Transforming the Supply Chain for Manufacturing, Retail & Industrial Operations

The Ivanti Velocity platform helps you optimize and transform your business via worker mobility to help you achieve operational excellence and raise customer satisfaction. It also works with other Ivanti solutions—like Ivanti Neurons for MDM—to manage, update, and secure your mobile devices. Similarly, Ivanti Velocity and Ivanti Neurons for IIoT combine to enable the future, bringing KPI visibility and Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) control to a whole new level.

Social search in real time: Exploring Mastodon data with Apache Kafka and OpenSearch

In an earlier blog post we talked about how to stream data from the Mastodon timeline into an Apache Kafka® cluster. If you missed it, read it to learn how to connect to Mastodon and stream data into an Apache Kafka topic. This article assumes that you already have an Apache Kafka environment running with data in a topic that is called Mastodon.

How can AI-powered ITSM Software Solutions put an end to nightmarish incidents?

Unmanageable incidents are what nightmares are made for – as far as ITOps managers and their teams are concerned. Sometimes, risks become issues. Other times, incidents turn into problems. Any of these could lead to disastrous consequences, such as security breaches, unexpected data risks, and unplanned application downtimes, which directly impact the organization.