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Elastic: Processing Data with the Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch is a powerful search and analytics engine, but it's only as good as the data you put into it. Learn how you can transform your data using an ingest pipeline before you index it in Elasticsearch. We'll start with an overview of the various data ingest capabilities offered by the Elastic Stack. Then, you'll learn best practices for building scalable and highly available ingestion pipelines.

Elastic Observability: A single pane of glass for all your observability data

Learn how to get the most value out of your observability data using the Elastic Stack and Elastic Observability. Get an overview of the different apps in Kibana that can help you reduce the time it takes to find and resolve issues in production, including how to use out-of-the-box visualizations and dashboards for more advanced use cases.

HAProxy: Achieving FIPS 140-2 Encryption Compliance with HAProxy Enterprise on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Encryption is an important facet of cybersecurity. It involves scrambling messages so that they can not be read by unauthorized parties in order to protect private information, which is particularly important when sending data across an untrusted network or the Internet where criminals often try to intercept it. As important as encryption is, its effectiveness can degrade as researchers discover weaknesses in the underlying encryption algorithms.

10 network tools every IT admin needs

Remember when native commands like ping and ipconfig were adequate for network inspection? With networks becoming more dynamic, these generic tools don’t seem to make the cut anymore. IT admins are in a constant quest for ad hoc network tools and utilities that could aid specific network management needs. Using individual network diagnostic tools, on the other hand, requires constant tab switching, and comparing data pulled by independent network tools to pinpoint your network issue.

What's new in Sysdig - October 2020

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! This month, our big announcement was around CloudTrail and Fargate scanning support. CloudTrail support gives Sysdig Secure the ability to ingest CloudTrail events. These get fed into the runtime security engine, where rules can be created using the Falco rules language.

Learning Git: How to Cherry Pick

What is cherry pick in Git? We have added a new intermediate Git tutorial video to our popular Learning Git with GitKraken educational series, covering the cherry pick command and related benefits. View the latest addition to our Learn Git library—Learning Git: How to Cherry Pick—to discover more about how to use the cherry pick command, for which situations it can be used most effectively in your workflow, and tips for avoiding duplicate commits.

Introduction to Performance Monitoring Metrics

The reliability and stability of your services directly depend on how well you understand the state of your infrastructure and services. A great monitoring system will allow you to understand your infrastructure better. Monitoring the performance of your system allows you to not only fix current problems but also make changes to your infrastructure to avoid them in the future.

Bringing rich and real-time infrastructure monitoring to Netdata Cloud

The Netdata Agent is well-equipped to solve monitoring and troubleshooting challenges for single nodes. We love that the Agent is so valuable to our users, but Netdata Cloud is designed for infrastructure monitoring. That’s why we’re working so hard to offer even more capabilities and help users monitor and troubleshoot infrastructures of all sizes, entirely for free!