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Log Analytics and SIEM for Enterprise Security Operations and Threat Hunting

Today’s enterprise networks are heterogeneous, have multiple entry points, integrate with cloud-based applications, offer data center delivered services, include applications that run at the edge of the network, and generate massive amounts of transactional data. In effect, enterprise networks have become larger, more complex, and more difficult to secure and manage.

Understanding IIS Log Files: Operating Instructions

Commonly, your website or app functions perfectly until you release it. During testing, you might seem to have control over everything. But, sooner or later, you will face some challenges. In fact, it is totally normal when something goes wrong. The most important thing is how you settle these problems. In most cases, issues with availability alerts and users’ complaints can be addressed by the means of IIS logs. IIS logging will provide you with the necessary data to deal with a breakdown.

4 benefits of combining ITSM and ITOM

IT management can be costly and time-consuming without streamlined processes and systems to support your business goals. With the quickened pace of business requiring faster scale, leaders and decision-makers must find ways to adapt and optimize their processes. Combining IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Operations Management (ITOM) can help you prioritize operations efficiency while delivering the best service to your employees.

ManageEngine: Make your IT operations future-proof with the Branch of One architecture

In the last year, we watched adoption of remote and hybrid work cultures accelerate around the globe in response to the pandemic. But most enterprises weren't ready for the abrupt change in where their workforces operated. Initially, IT admins deployed a number of band-aid solutions like VPNs to give their workforces seamless connectivity to their corporate networks. But these solutions had drawbacks of their own. To overcome the shortcomings of these band-aid solutions and deliver a seamless experience to their workforce, enterprises need to rethink their IT strategy.

Grafana: Intro to unified alerting in Grafana

In this webinar, we'll give you a walkthrough and introduction of the Grafana 8 unified alerting system that was announced at GrafanaCONline. For users of the old traditional Grafana dashboard alerts, we'll talk about what you can expect as you migrate to the new system, as well as some of the improvements we've made along the way. For users of Prometheus-style alerts and Grafana Cloud alerting, we'll also explore how the new system makes it easier than ever to manage these alerts, all directly within Grafana.

Elasticsearch ingest pipelines and best practices

Elasticsearch is a powerful search and analytics engine, but it's only as good as the data you put into it. In this webinar we'll show how data can be transformed before being stored inside Elasticsearch. We'll start with an overview of the various data ingest capabilities offered by the Elastic Stack. Then, you'll learn about architectural best practices for building scalable and highly available ingestion pipelines.

Civo: GitOps with Argo and Crossplane - Civo Online Meetup #10

The real power of Kubernetes lies in its universal control plane. New projects, such as Crossplane, are building on this feature to reimagine the use of Kubernetes beyond orchestrating containers. Crossplane allows users to manage infrastructure as Kubernetes resources. This makes it possible to implement GitOps best practices not only for Kubernetes resources but also to manage infrastructure. Join Viktor Farcic and Anais Urlichs in this meetup as we will explore Crossplane through the Civo Crossplane Provider.