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Exoprise
We help you find and fix issues with your cloud apps fast. Exoprise is the leading solution provider for monitoring SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce.com and more.
Sematext
Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
NiCE IT Mgmt
From databases to servers, communication systems, operating systems and custom applications, NiCE provides the right application monitoring solutions and services.
Monitive
Monitive is an uptime monitoring service, where users sign up and input their website address, which we check every minute, from a random location around the world, and instantly notify them when their site is down.
EventSentry
EventSentry is an award-winning Hybrid SIEM which features real-time log, system health and network monitoring to proactively monitor networks and preemptively respond to threats.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 90+ products and free tools cover everything your IT needs, at prices you can afford.
Raygun
Raygun is a Software Intelligence Platform that gives companies visibility into software problems. Errors, crashes and slow loading pages and scripts affecting end users are automatically detected, enabling teams to build excellent user experiences.
Challenges and Best Practices for Monitoring SaaS-based Businesses
SaaS-based businesses are on the rise more than ever. Old businesses are rushing to turn their legacy software into SaaS-based solutions and new businesses are popping up offering SaaS-based solutions to everything imaginable. SaaS-based solutions are made up of multi-layered complex architecture with both internal and external components that require strategic constant monitoring and optimization.
Making the Collection of Centralised S3 Logs into Splunk easy with Lambda and SQS
Got multiple AWS data sources in the same S3 bucket but struggle with efficient SNS notifications based on prefix wildcards? Well, struggle no more, we’ve got your back. Many of our customers have a centralised S3 Bucket for log collection for multiple sources and accounts. For example, all Config, CloudTrail and Access Log logs may be routed into one central bucket for an organisation.
Why the CEO Cares About Splunk
Evolving business themes come at us in waves. So far this millennium we have had The New Economy, The Cloud, and now Digital Transformation. Underpinning these themes are real, economically significant dynamics that drown out the bleating voices of pundits and cynics alike. The Internet is not a bubble, the cloud is not a fad, and digital transformation is, well, transformative. Let’s take a look at what that last one means for Financial Services.
Global Restart: CIOs Need to Simplify in the Face of Complexity
We have to get everyone back to work. The global restart of economies derailed by the coronavirus pandemic is challenging organizations across the board. And from one industry to the next, IT must be a central player in establishing a new normal. Organizations that had to entirely shut down facilities — retail stores, manufacturing plants, restaurants, theme parks — may particularly struggle to reestablish operations with new approaches that protect worker and customer health.
Splunk: Applied Observability
Applied Observability is great, right? Until you read something like "[t]he belief that more data or information automatically leads to better decisions is probably one of the most unfortunate mistakes of the information society." How effective have all those traces, metrics and logs been in solving your problems? To that end, let's discuss **applied** observability. It's what you do with telemetry that actually improves things for your operators.
Sysdig: Cloud Native Monitoring: Scaling Prometheus
Challenges abound when it comes to securing and monitoring containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native applications across development and production. Most notably, scaling Prometheus monitoring beyond a few servers and applications presents issues when trying to troubleshoot problems that span multiple applications and clusters. We'll share our experience using Prometheus at scale, providing different solutions and highlighting the challenges to solve in each step.
Sysdig: Exploring Kubernetes 1.18 with Alex Ellis
With the release of Kubernetes 1.18, we saw 40 features and updates added. In a recent blog post we collated these together in one place so that you can learn what may affect your clusters and prepare for change. Now, we go one step further, inviting Alex Ellis, CNCF Ambassador and Open Source project founder to share his take on the changes. We saw Alex's in-depth article on the recent deprecations around "kubectl run" and asked him to pick four of his highlights to share with examples.
Sysdig: Building Healthy Cloud Native Software
Hear a candid and thoughtful conversation with Sysdig's Founder/CTO and Chief Open Source Advocate about open source maturation during the rise of Kubernetes. Speakers: Speakers: Speaker: Speakers.
InfluxData: How to Create a Telegraf Parser Plugin for Data Stored in Kafka Using Flux
Is your data in an exotic format stored in Kafka? Let's write a Telegraf Plugin! This session is a step-by-step presentation on how to develop a Telegraf parser plugin. The focus will be on Apache Avro, a popular data serialization format widely used in Kafka-based data pipelines.
InfluxData: How Sysbee Manages Infrastructures and Provides Advanced Monitoring by Using InfluxDB and Telegraf
Discover how Sysbee helps organizations bring DevOps culture to small and medium enterprises. Their team helps their customers by improving stability, security, scalability - by providing cost-effective IT infrastructure. Learn how monitoring everything can improve your processes and simplify debugging! Join this webinar as Saša Tekovic and Branko Toic dive into.