Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Latest posts

Event Highlights: InfluxDays North America 2021

Roadmap revealed, insight gained, connections made, and InfluxDB Challenge swag won — that’s a wrap for InfluxDays North America 2021! The conference, which brought together the #InfluxDB community to exchange time series acumen and use cases, is always a reminder of why and how we’ve grown. It included subject-matter-expert led courses, on-demand videos and live sessions.

What Is Continuous Security Monitoring?

Today, organizations rely on computers, the internet, and data to perform operations. What's more, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employees and businesses now operate remotely. The dependency on computer systems and internet technologies also means that many contractors and vendors have provided IT services and software to the average company. Small, medium, and large enterprises depend on third parties to provide various services over the internet.

CPG: Understand your consumers and meet them at the shelves

Product Pricing Isn’t Hocus Pocus. . . Scott Weitzman sits down with Alex Barnes to discuss what exactly Revenue Growth Management is, how it works, and why now is the most important time to focus on consumer retention. As Scott learns, this is not just some magical system that makes prices, but rather something that allows CPG companies to understand their consumers better and help meet them at the shelves.

Sysdig: Become a PromQL Expert: Learn the Query Language of Prometheus

Prometheus uses PromQL to query the vast amount of time series data that it stores. Unlike other query languages that are based on SQL, PromQL has its own syntax and can take a lot of time and practice to master. During the session, we will take you through the structure of a PromQL query and give you some pointers on how to master this critical component of Prometheus observability.

NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.00 released

The NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.0 is an enterprise-ready Microsoft SCOM add-on for advanced IBM Db2 monitoring. It supports the Db2 system, application, and database administrator in centralized IBM Db2 health and performance monitoring to improve user experience and business results. The Management Pack provides clear and precise performance indicators and timely alerts enriched by pinpointing problem identification and troubleshooting information.

Monitor NS1 with Datadog

NS1 is an intelligent DNS and traffic management platform that helps optimize the performance of your network infrastructure and speed application delivery to your end users. Since even a small increase in service latency can lead to churn and revenue loss, it’s critical to remove any inefficiencies embedded in basic network functions. NS1 helps ensure high performance for name resolution and routing through support for the edns0-client-subnet (ECS) DNS extension and for Filter Chain technology.

Dealing With Ransomware Attacks On Your Business

At its best, technology is an absolute boon for businesses. Simple computing machines make work easier, and making use of networks provides you with connectivity that allows you to quickly reach entities within and without your business. However, technology isn't invulnerable. Truth be told, ransomware attacks are on the rise in 2021. In the first half of the year, there had been more than 149 confirmed cases of Ransomware attacking businesses around the world.

VoIP Service Provider and Titanium 3CX Partner, Amplisys, uses Obkio to Monitor End-User Network Performance

Learn how Obkio works with 3CX partner and VoIP Provider, Amplisys, to create a streamlined network monitoring and troubleshooting process to quickly and proactively support every one of Amplisys’ VoIP customers for impeccable customer satisfaction and support.

CVE-2021-38379 & CVE-2021-36756

The CFEngine engineering team has recently discovered two security issues in the CFEngine Enterprise product: While the latter one (CVE-2021-36756) only affects CFEngine Enterprise deployments using the Federated Reporting functionality, the former one (CVE-2021-38379) affects all deployments running all supported versions of CFEngine Enterprise (and many unsupported versions, 3.5 or newer, to be more precise).