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No More False Alerts at Night

Do you know this situation? You are on-call and in the middle of the night you get a phone call. Loud enough to wake you up. Loud enough to wake your wife up, as well. You stand up and check your emails to see what the problem is. OK, you got it. Then you log on to the console of your monitoring tool and – green. Green? False alert? Why did you get the call then? After double-checking, still a bit sleepy, you recognize that the problem has been recovered automatically.

Elastic: Infrastructure metrics and observability with the Elastic Stack

Ready to get started on your observability journey? We'll go over the basics of using the Elastic Stack for your infrastructure and system metrics. We'll also show how combining your infrastructure metrics with your logs and application traces can benefit you and your business. Join us to see how Elastic Observability can help you get to the bottom of issues faster and reduce your MTTD/R.

Elastic: Using the Elastic Stack in Connected Car Technology Stacks

The Elastic Stack is a natural fit in today's modern automotive industry. During this virtual session, we'll look at the industry's main workloads, which manufacturers are using the Elastic Stack, the requirements they have, and why they chose Elastic. We'll discuss a high-level architecture similar to the connected car solutions currently in place and how it's deployed today. Finally, we'll show examples of use cases in today's connected car production.

HAProxy: Kubernetes Ingress: Routing and Load-Balancing HTTP(s) traffic

Kubernetes converts a collection of servers into an interconnected cluster over which you can host any of your Docker container workloads. Maybe this trait of interconnectedness is why its predecessor was called Borg, named after the alien beings from the StarTrek fictional universe that thought with a single hive-mind!

OpsRamp: Hiring and Managing IT Staff During a Global Crisis

Acquiring, retaining and optimizing IT talent has never been easy, but in 2020, there's a whole new set of considerations for IT leaders and managers. Needs and priorities have shifted and that means new tactics for productivity, decision-making, and hiring. In this session, we will explore: Martha Heller, CEO of Heller Search Associates and an expert on IT leadership and workforce, leads this discussion.

Elastic: Introducing Elastic Security: Unified protection for everyone

Join this Elastic webinar in collaboration with SANS institute and learn how the latest security capabilities in the Elastic Stack enable interactive exploration, incident management and automated analysis, as well as how you can use unsupervised machine learning to reduce false positives and spot anomalies all at the speed and scale your security practitioners need to defend your organisation. Additionally, we'll be talking about the free endpoint security capabilities of Elastic Security and will introduce Elastics Event Query Language (EQL).

Elastic: An introduction to Elastic APM in the shift to cloud native

With cloud-native architectures and hundreds - or thousands - of microservices shaping the user experience, application performance monitoring (APM) is increasingly pivotal to the success of modern organizations. Get a rundown of the latest features and see Elastic APM in action with a demo from the experts. Watch our webinar and you will: Want to try it for yourself? Take some of these features for a spin with a free trial of our Elasticsearch Service.

How to ensure network compliance in this era of remote work: The ITOM Podcast [Episode 5]

The ITOM Podcast returns with yet another episode to help you eliminate all the remote work woes in your IT environment. In the last episode, we discussed in detail about the key areas enterprises need to monitor to ensure endpoint security, measures to adopt to ensure cybersecurity while rolling out BYOD policies, and the crucial factors that IT leaders need to know about in the post-pandemic era with respect to IT security.

Building and deploying a Docker image to a Kubernetes cluster

Deploying Docker images to Kubernetes is a great way to run your application in an easily scalable way. Getting started with your first Kubernetes deployment can be a little daunting if you are new to Docker and Kubernetes, but with a little bit of preparation, your application will be running in no time. In this blog post, we will cover the basic steps needed to build Docker images and deploy them to a Kubernetes cluster.

Essential Observability Techniques for Continuous Delivery

Observability is an indispensable concept in continuous delivery, but it can be a little bewildering. Luckily for us, there are a number of tools and techniques to make our job easier! One way to aid in improving observability in a continuous delivery environment is by monitoring and analyzing key metrics from builds and deploys. With tools such as Prometheus and their integrations into CI/CD pipelines, gathering and analysis of metrics is simple. Tracking these things early on is essential.