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Tigera: Calico WireGuard Support with Azure CNI

One way Calico is used to secure container workloads in Kubernetes is through Network Policies, which allow you to restrict the flow of traffic to and from trusted sources-but this can leave the traffic itself unprotected. One common solution to this is to encrypt traffic at the application level, but Calico gives you another choice: using Wireguard to encrypt data in transit.

Tigera: Hands-on workshop: Kubernetes observability design and implementation for any distro, any cloud and any application

Deep dive hands-on workshop with a Calico expert to design and implement Kubernetes observability 90-mins interactive lab with your own provisioned Calico Cloud environment is designed to provide more complete knowledge on: - Run-time visualization of traffic flow and security policies - Service-level observability - DNS dashboards - Anomaly detection and live troubleshooting on a pod or collection of pods

Tigera: Hands-on EKS/AKS workshop for K8s security and observability

In this EKS-focused workshop for Kubernetes security and observability, you will work with a Calico and AWS expert to learn how to design, deploy, and observe security and networking policies in an EKS environment. This 90-minute hands-on lab with your own provisioned Calico Cloud environment is designed to provide more complete knowledge on how to implement: - Access controls - DNS policy - Dynamic Service Graph

5 reasons why your startup needs website monitoring

Despite the ongoing pandemic, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups, which amounted to $156.2 billion, according to a recent PitchBook report. Being an astute entrepreneur, you’ve likely thought of everything to enable your startup business to hit the ground running — branding, product logos, hiring staff, equipment purchases, and structuring your business roadmap. You are ready to take the marketplace by storm — or so you think.

Monitor feature releases with Statsig's offering in the Datadog Marketplace

Statsig is a modern experimentation platform that provides crucial insight into how new features are received by your users, so you can make informed product decisions and deploy with confidence. Statsig automatically runs A/B tests on features as they’re rolled out, and measures their impact on key business metrics, such as user growth and engagement.

Log Management for the MEAN Stack Framework

MEAN is evolving as a popular web stack for developing cloud native applications because of its scalability, ease of extension, and high reliability. Each component in MEAN is built on JavaScript, contributing to a cohesive development platform. In this post, we take you through the log management options that are available for each component of the MEAN stack framework and their respective limitations – limitations that are addressable with a refined log management solution like observIQ.

Following the Money: 3 Transaction Pathways to Monitor

If all you have is the beginning and the end, you’re left with a short, boring story: “Once upon a time, it was UP…then, it was DOWN.” Knowing the twists and turns of your transaction pathways is not only illuminating, but profitable. Information channels dry up when all you have are pieces.

What's new in Sysdig - August 2021

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! This month’s big announcement is our new support for Prometheus as a managed service. There are several individual features behind this which we cover in more detail below, but here is a summary: Also, Kubernetes 1.22 was released and we shared our review of what to look out for. Go check out our Kubernetes 1.22 – What’s new? post if you haven’t already.

How to Do Simple UX Monitoring With ipMonitor

Learn how you can leverage ipMonitor user experience monitors to be sure you know about any user experience issues before end users do. Do you know what’s going on right now with all the network devices, servers, and applications that are the magic behind your business? To keep on top of what’s happening with all of those moving parts, you need an easy-to-use, reliable monitoring solution that tells you what’s up, what’s down, and what’s not performing as expected.