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Does Observability Throw You for a Loop? Part One: Open with Observability

The duality of observability is controllability. Observability is the ability to infer the internal state of a "machine” from externally exposed signals. Controllability is the ability to control input to direct the internal state to the desired outcome. We need both in today's cloud native world. Quite often we find that observability is presented as the desired end state. Yet, in modern computing environments, this isn’t really true.

Sysdig: K8s Limits and Requests: Monitoring and Troubleshooting by example

Are your Kubernetes applications not performing well enough? Is your infrastructure oversized? Kubernetes limits and requests dictate the resources available to your applications, so when they aren't set correctly your cluster suffers from CPU throttling and Out Of Memory Kills. Oversizing your infrastructure is an easy, but expensive, solution - there must be a better way.

Sysdig: Owning Secure DevOps for Google's Anthos & GKE

As cloud-native becomes the standard for application deployment, DevOps teams are being asked to take ownership of security and compliance along with application performance and availability. Join us to hear how this is being addressed by customers across the Kubernetes lifecycle. We'll also demo best practices for vulnerability management, runtime security, and container forensics with Google Cloud's Anthos and GKE.

Uptrends is ISO 27001 security compliant!

We are thrilled to let you know that Uptrends is now certified ISO 27001 compliant. The ISO (International Organization Standardization) sets security requirements that a company must meet before an accredited auditor can grant the certification. If you’re familiar with the certification process, you know that it takes a considerable amount of time and work; however, the benefits that it brings for our company and our clients are worth the effort. Let’s take a look.

4 Ways to align your Service Desk to business operations

As an IT leader, it’s important to step back, sometimes, and view what you can do better with your service desk. Because small issues and inefficiencies can easily add up to day-to-day chaos. In organizations where IT services are aligned with business objectives, they are more likely to make investments in new technologies like AI & ML. Periodic reviews will make sure that the alignment stays. Here we are going to look at some areas where putting efforts can yield significant result.

Sysdig Introduces the First Cloud-Scale Prometheus Monitoring Offering

Today, we are excited to announce a huge step forward for Sysdig Monitor. We’re introducing the ability for our customers to use Sysdig to scale Prometheus monitoring to millions of metrics with long-term retention. The improvements we are releasing make Sysdig the first cloud-scale monitoring offering to deliver full Prometheus compatibility.