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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.
Elastic APM: Introduction, getting started, and exciting new features
Elasticsearch is the perfect place to store your logs, metrics, and application performance monitoring (APM) data. All of your operational data in one place gives you greater visibility into all aspects of your infrastructure and application ecosystem. Join this webinar to learn how to get started with tracing in Elastic APM and to hear about the latest additions to Elastic APM. We'll also show you how search helps leverage and navigate the relationships between application traces and your logs and metrics data.
Rancher: Kubernetes Master Class: Understanding Upgrades and Rollbacks in Rancher 2.4
Customers expect your containerized applications to be available all the time and DevOps teams are expected to deploy new versions of them several times a day. Rancher 2.4 now supports rolling updates of worker nodes running RKE. This makes it easy for operators to select and configure an upgrade strategy so that DNS and Ingress experience zero downtime during cluster updates.
Rancher: Kubernetes Master Class: OPA Support in Rancher 2.4
The Open Policy Agent (OPA) Gatekeeper project is a policy enforcement mechanism to ensure that kubernetes clusters run only with the appropriate privileges and can solely access the appropriate resources. Gatekeeper helps you ensure compliance with legal and organizational policies by providing ability to define custom policies using native Kubernetes CRDs, such as "constraint templates" and "constraints". You can leverage the project as a threat prevention mechanism by enabling controlling policies for images, ingress, pods, and namespaces.
Rancher: How to Harden Your Kubernetes Clusters with the CIS Benchmark Scanning Tool in Rancher
As DevOps teams deploy Kubernetes in production using Rancher, enterprises must focus on the runtime security and compliance requirements of their cloud-native platforms. During this Kubernetes Master Class Bill Maxwell, Rancher Sr. Product Manager, will give an overview of the current state of security-related features in Rancher, and demonstrate the integration of our new CIS benchmark scanning tool in Rancher 2.4.
Rancher: How to Automate Privacy Protections, PCI Compliance, and Vulnerability Management for Kubernetes
If your containers handle any sensitive data, including PII, credit cards, or accounts, you'll need to take a 'defense in depth' approach to container security. In this webinar, Henrik Rosendahl from NeuVector will cover the most important threat vectors in the CI/CD pipeline from build to ship to run-time. He will then talk about best practices for protecting sensitive data and enforcing compliance, from vulnerability management to network segmentation. Glen Kosaka from NeuVector will also provide a demo of how security controls can be integrated and automated to ensure compliance.
Cybersecurity challenges of the work-from-home model
Just recently, the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a global pandemic. This decision brought with it several health and safety measures, and normal life came to a halt in many countries. This resulted in many organizations around the world adopting telecommuting methods to prevent the spread of COVID-19. While people are adjusting to the sudden changes in the way they work, cybercriminals are using this opportunity to exploit new vulnerabilities the work-from-home environment presents.
Performance Best Practices: Running and Monitoring Express.js in Production
What is the most important feature an Express.js application can have? Maybe using sockets for real-time chats or GraphQL instead of REST APIs? Come on, tell me. What’s the most amazing, sexy, and hyped feature you have in your Express.js application? Want to guess what mine is? Optimal performance with minimal downtime. If your users can’t use your application, what’s the point of fancy features?
Pro tips for making the most of your Datadog metrics in Grafana with the enterprise plugin
Hello again! We are Eldin and Christine – or, as our lovely editor has dubbed us, Regis and Kelly – jumping back in for another post. This week, to highlight the big tent and community theme, we are going to write about how our Datadog plugin allows you to “see it all in one place.” Datadog is a popular monitoring and analytics platform that allows you to easily install an agent so you can get started with collecting metrics right away.
Optimizing your alerts to reduce Alert Noise
Reducing alert fatigue starts from your monitoring platform - setting the right thresholds to trigger alerts and understanding which of these are essential to be sent into your on-call platform is a start. This post outlines some of the best practices that help you reduce alert noise and improve your on-call experience. The word noise implies something unpleasant and unwanted. You combine that with on-call and it adds a factor of annoyance to the already overwhelming process.
Running Google Cloud Containers with Rancher
Rancher is the enterprise computing platform to run Kubernetes on-premises, in the cloud and at the edge. It’s an excellent platform to get started with containers or for those who are struggling to scale up their Kubernetes operations in production. However, in a world increasingly dominated by public infrastructure providers like Google Cloud, it’s reasonable to ask how Rancher adds value to services like Google’s Kubernetes Engine (GKE).