Patch management is a term that’s familiar to all within the depths and boundaries of endpoint security. While the addition of “automation” to this term might make it seem like one among the thousands of other automated tasks, cybersecurity experts have been going gung ho over it in the last few years. If you’re reading this, it probably doesn’t make sense to explain to you what patch management automation or automated patch management is.
To understand why Graphite metrics delay occurs, we must first know what Graphite is. Graphite is an open-source tool used to track the performance of websites, applications, and network servers. It makes it simple to monitor, store, retrieve, and visualize numeric time-series data. While Graphite does make it easier to render graphs on-demand, the struggle of dealing with large amounts of data with minimum delay is real.
As you probably already know, Blackfire and Platform.sh joined forces back in June 2021. And since then our collective teams have been working together to provide a seamless integration for a complete Git workflow and Observability solution. Blackfire was already part of the Platform.sh product experience for Enterprise and Elite users for quite some time now thanks to the Platform.sh Observability suite.
In the heat of an incident, having a clear and shared understanding of what’s going on is absolutely crucial to effective response. But often what actually happens is that people involved in incidents build their own picture and narrative of the event, shaped by their own expertise, their past experiences, and what they’re seeing and hearing as the incident develops. The pictures and perspective people build is often referred to as a mental model.
For technical teams, the findings from DORA provide a model for measuring and improving performance. With almost a decade of data gathered from more than 33,000 professionals worldwide, the capabilities and frameworks detailed by the research help teams pinpoint areas for improvement and areas to celebrate. The team at DORA categorizes capabilities into three sections: Technical Capabilities, Process Capabilities and Cultural Capabilities.
In the vast universe of cloud computing, data transfer operations serve as the lifeline of your day-to-day tasks. Whether it’s migrating data to the cloud or distributing data across various storage accounts, data transfer plays a vital role. Microsoft’s Azcopy is a lifeline for those who require a robust, reliable, and efficient tool for their data transfer needs, particularly to and from Azure Storage.
A “Parent” is a Netdata Agent, like the ones we install on all our systems, but is configured as a central node that receives, stores and processes metrics data from other Netdata “Child” nodes in our infrastructure. Netdata Parents are flexible. You can have one big active-active cluster of Netdata Parents, or you can spread a lot of independent Parents across the infrastructure. This “distributed still centralized” setup provides a lot of benefits.
Understanding the performance of Android applications, user interactions, and problem-solving is significantly reliant on data monitoring. As the realm of mobile technology continues to expand, developers are tasked with managing an increasingly large amount of data. When this data is correctly harvested and scrutinized, it can yield valuable insights that inform strategic choices and lead to improvements in the app.
Take back control of your Monitoring with Levitate - a managed time series data warehouse.
Are you thinking about switching from platform engineering to DevOps? You're not alone. In order to remain competitive, many organizations are making this crucial change as the world of software development and operations continues to change. This article will discuss the reasons behind the transition, what it implies, and most importantly, how your organization may successfully manage the change.
Attention, all tech enthusiasts! We are thrilled to announce that ManageEngine has once again been positioned as an Overall Leader for UEM in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass. This marks the second consecutive time we have achieved this recognition. We have been acknowledged as leaders in all three leadership categories: Product Leadership, Innovative Leadership, and Market Leadership.
In this article, we’ll be going over the 5 best Cisco Switch monitoring tools for 2023. We'll provide an overview of switches, monitoring, and how to choose the best tool for you.
In today’s digital era, the cloud has revolutionized the way we store, process, and transmit data, offering scalability, efficiency, and flexibility. As we continue to transition towards this cloud-first approach, the importance of robust cloud security can’t be overstated. This article will provide ten essential tips for ensuring the safety and security of your data in the cloud.
Are you looking to streamline your development process, boost productivity, and deploy your applications effortlessly? Look no further! We are thrilled to announce the release of our Heroku monitoring cheatsheet, designed to be your go-to resource for monitoring Heroku applications.
As general manager of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane applied statistical analysis (also known as sabermetrics) to the evaluation of baseball players, which enabled the team to excel in the 2020 season. Beane was the subject of Michael Lewis’s book “Moneyball,” which was made into a movie starring Brad Pitt as Beane.
Over the years, Kelverion has seen it all, from excessive employee-wide automated messaging to connecting systems with people. We’ve seen many automation projects fail to achieve their potential or even grind to a halt completely, and the reasons for these IT automation mistakes are shockingly common. With automation’s huge business benefits, committing some of these blunders has proved to be career limiting.
One of the most painful parts of incident response is contextualizing the problem and understanding how and where it fits within your organization. If responders are unable to answer basic questions such as: Then you waste valuable time talking to the wrong people or solving the wrong problems — ultimately extending impact and hurting your response. It’s a common issue that, up until now, didn’t have a clear solution or workaround.
It’s no surprise that AI is rapidly becoming the most powerful tool for developers. The ease of use and accuracy of such tools can even generate code snippets for a website written entirely on a napkin! While the potential of AI is exciting, it is crucial to address the potential vulnerabilities that bad actors can exploit within AI systems.
In this article, we’ll take you on a quick tour of the new Lua event framework shipped with HAProxy 2.8—plus demonstrate how Lua helps you further customize HAProxy’s behavior. We’ll start with a brief, high-level overview of Lua and how HAProxy uses it. Next, we’ll introduce you to the Lua event framework, show you what you can do with it, and familiarize you with its mechanics.
We’ve long believed that incidents (and technical team cultures) improve when more people are empowered to declare, follow, and contribute to their resolution. But not everyone in an organization needs to be able to manage the processes, rules, and settings a company enforces for their incident programs.
VMware Tanzu Mission Control is a centralized hub for simplified, multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes management. It helps platform teams take control of their Kubernetes clusters with visibility across environments by allowing users to group clusters and perform operations, such as applying policies, on these groupings.
How can anyone forget the photos and images of mounds of luggage sitting wherever they could find a spot at most major airports, back during the winter storm of 2022? And what about the thousands of stranded passengers in dismay during the holidays, with plans and gifts that literally couldn’t get off the ground?
We recently introduced Catalog: the connected map of everything in your organization. In the process of building Catalog as a feature, we’ve also been building out the content of our own catalog. We'd flipped on the feature flag to give ourselves early access, and as we went along, we used this to test out the various features that Catalog powers.
As you may have already seen, we’ve recently released a Catalog feature at incident.io. While designing and building it, we took an approach that’s a tangible departure from a traditional service catalog. Here’s how we’re different, and why.
Monitoring is all about data. When you implement a monitoring tool, you have to make sure that the monitoring software can handle data. Today, data flows at high speeds and in large volumes. Data also comes in diverse forms, which increases the complexity of data ingestion. Because of this, monitoring solution providers promote, among others, their data processing capacities. If a monitoring platform can handle large and diverse data that comes in at a high velocity, it becomes a big advantage.
A containerized approach to software deployment means you can deploy at scale without having to worry about the configuration of each unit. In Kubernetes, clusters do the heavy lifting for you—they’re the pooled resources that run the pods that hold your individual containers. You can divide each cluster by namespace, which allows you to assign nodes (ie the machine resources in a cluster) to different roles or different teams. Resource quotas limit what each namespace can use.
To wrap up Q2, our Product Roundup highlights our more exciting Netreo UX and product enhancements, plus gives you a glimpse into what’s in store for the rest of 2023. Thanks for your continued support, and don’t forget to submit your ideas for improving Netreo through our in-product suggestion portal.
In today’s digital landscape, the aviation industry faces increasingly sophisticated cyber threats that can compromise the safety and security of critical systems. To combat these challenges, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented new cybersecurity requirements. In this blog post, we’ll explore how Teneo, in collaboration with Akamai Guardicore, can help aviation organizations meet these requirements and strengthen their cybersecurity defenses.
Today’s world runs on data. We are constantly improving our solutions thanks to the plethora of data available to us in the public domain. Our society has seen a behavioral change when it comes to formulating remedies. We are increasingly adopting data-driven decisions, and rightly so. Now, talking about this whole data logic, where do you think this enormous amount of data gets stored? Well, the answer is a database!
One of the qualities of engineering team excellence is thinking outside the box to find creative solutions to hard problems. It’s our responsibility, as dev leaders, to pass on to the next generations of developers tips and tricks to help them look beyond the surface to solve complex business problems and leverage the power of the open source community, when possible.
Benefits of GitOps in IT monitoring The GitOps model has gained popularity as a software development approach. It enables IT teams to deliver higher-quality software faster and more efficiently. By streamlining and automating the development process, GitOps provides substantial productivity improvements while ensuring comprehensive observability for monitoring and control.
Virtualization has become a cornerstone in modern IT infrastructures, allowing businesses to maximize their resources, streamline operations, and improve service delivery. A key player in this domain is VMware, a company that pioneered virtualization technology and continues to drive innovations in this field. One of their most useful offerings is the VMware Tools, an essential software suite for any VMware virtual machine (VM).
Smart notifications and nudges are table stakes tools for developers looking to streamline their work and stay focused on building improvements. These automatic alerts are key to a more efficient workflow, freeing us from the burden of repetitive, overwhelming, and time critical tasks — aka, toil.
Data center planning can be a chore. It's often a manual and time-consuming process that involves gathering data that may or may not be accurate from multiple tools. Plus, modern data center environments are increasingly complex and distributed which adds to the challenge.
Expenditure on cloud computing services reached a mammoth 225 billion dollars in 2022. Companies start their cloud-native journeys with the best intentions and consume the many benefits including: But current cloud expenditure growth levels are unsustainable for many organizations and with 82% of organizations investing in FinOps staff it shows that cloud expenditure is top of mind in the c-suite.
Amid an AI boom and developing research, machine learning (ML) models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Midjourney’s generative text-to-image model have radically shifted the natural language processing (NLP) and image processing landscape. Due to this new and powerful technology, developing and deploying ML models has quickly become the new frontier for software development.
Channels are at the core of how teams collaborate in Mattermost. While team conversations take center stage, every channel is packed with additional features to help you stay in sync. Today, let’s take a closer look at channel headers, and how you can use them to help your team use Mattermost channels more effectively.
Deciding what to migrate, what to modernize, and what to retain on-premises is part of enterprise IT infrastructure management. When a refresh cycle is up in your data center, there are two very different types of competing motions you need to evaluate. While they may appear to be independent, they’re also kind of not, so it can be tricky to decide which one to execute—or even to execute both—and to do so smoothly.
The password reset just might be the most notorious high-volume, repetitive IT ticket ever. Who actually remembers passwords, anyway? Considering just about everything done online requires some sort of login with a unique username and password, remembering all those individual combinations of letters, numbers, and special characters isn’t easy! And so employees turn to IT for what can be nonstop help.
In this article, we provide a concise guide to help you get started with Graphite quickly and efficiently. We cover the basic concepts, architectural considerations, and metrics aggregation of Graphite. We also explain the data feeding methods, metrics format, and storage using Graphite's file-based database. Additionally, we discuss visualization options, including Graphite-Web and Grafana.
Kubernetes has revolutionized the management of containerized applications, but what about non-Kubernetes resources? Can Kubernetes extend its capabilities to encompass those as well? Cloudify, known for its ability to fit into highly distributed and heterogeneous environments, is making a significant stride in this direction with the release of Cloudify 7. In this blog, we explore how Cloudify brings its powerful capabilities natively into the Kubernetes ecosystem.
June 27, 2023 We were excited to learn last week that GigaOm named Densify as both a Leader and an “Outperformer” in its new report “Radar for Cloud Resource Optimization”. This was particularly meaningful to us for a few reasons.
Azure is Microsoft’s flagship cloud computing service, providing a host of capabilities and features to enable businesses to operate and thrive in the digital age. One of these offerings, Azure Data Lake, stands as a pivotal resource for organizations that process massive volumes of data. But what exactly is Azure Data Lake?
In an ideal world CI pipelines would never fail and deployments would be easy to navigate. The reality is that the journey from commit to production can fail in subtle ways that can be hard to understand. And this problem is multiplied by the number of pipelines in your system.
The 2020 pandemic has definitely changed the way teams operate across the globe. Many of you may have already experienced moving from 100% office work to 100% remote work, and now that it has been almost three years since the pandemic started many of us have resorted to hybrid models. We at Squadcast value the importance of efficient communication, reaching the right people during a crisis, and the freedom to resolve critical incidents from anywhere, anytime. Keeping that in mind, we have made major improvements to our mobile app to help you effectively partake in Incident Response activities anytime from across the globe.
Graphite is used by many organizations to track and visualize various metrics that their applications or servers send out. But what happens if there are too many of these metrics or the company doesn't want to use its human resources to monitor the behaviour of metrics constantly? In this article, we will use Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to learn about Graphite's ability to notify users about the abnormal behaviour of services or infrastructure in a timely manner.
As we are now 6 months into the year, I thought this would be a great time to sit and reflect on everything that has happened at Civo so far (and some of the plans we have in the pipeline). If you’re interested in taking a look at our previous roadmaps.
Reviewing the Current State of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), its Challenges, the Emergence of Crossplane, Adoption Difficulties, and the Road Ahead! Infrastructure as code (IaC) has become an indispensable practice for managing and deploying cloud-native applications. By defining infrastructure through code, developers can efficiently and consistently manage their infrastructure. In this post, we’ll delve into the state of IaC, the problems it poses, and the new approach offered by Crossplane.
Modern applications are becoming increasingly distributed due to a wide range of benefits including enhanced scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and better geographical distribution. But it also makes the overall system complex making it challenging to understand how they function internally. Distributed tracing helps to address it by tracking how requests flow through various system components with detailed insights.
In this blog, we’ll run through the new features of Cloudify’s VS Code extension and how developers can use it to write better and more consistent blueprints. This will ultimately improve the overall user experience. VS Code is a cross-platform text editor created by Microsoft. Developers can use VS Code as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for just about any language. Part of VS Code’s appeal is in the ease of developing extensions, which can expand its applications.
In my previous article, I provided an example of using Cloudify’s native REST plugin to send a policy evaluation request to an Open Policy Agent (OPA) service. While dispatching requests to an upstream OPA endpoint is a great way to integrate policy enforcement throughout an environment blueprint, Cloudify has also been working toward native integration of OPA throughout our ecosystem.
As Kubernetes continues to gain popularity as a container orchestration system, mastering its command-line interface becomes increasingly vital for DevOps engineers and developers alike. Kubectl, the Kubernetes command-line tool, is an essential component in managing and deploying applications in a Kubernetes cluster. This tool allows you to interact directly with the Kubernetes API server and control the state of your cluster.
In a short time, the open-source ecosystem has evolved from niche projects with limited corporate backing to the de facto way to build software. Today, organizations large and small are adopting open-source software to accelerate product development and innovation. In the government sector, the U.S. Department of Defense issued a memorandum on adopting open source software as its preference versus proprietary software, calling open-source “critical in delivering software faster.”
With the surge in digitization, the concept of cloud migration has become a fundamental reality for many organizations. VMware, a widely accepted leader in server virtualization, has enabled many businesses to take advantage of virtual machines’ benefits. However, as businesses evolve, so do their requirements. This often leads to the need for moving these VMware-based virtual machines to more flexible and scalable platforms like Microsoft Azure.
In this post we will examine using NeuVector Network rules to enable multi-tenancy isolation in openshift. Also how we can isolate external traffic from specific workload.
In this post we will explain how to use OpenShift monitoring (alert manager) to monitor NeuVector using NeuVector prometheus-exporter NeuVector has published a Prometheus exporter which we will use in the post.
Building full-stack applications can be challenging, especially when developing the backend and frontend at the same time. In this scenario, frontend teams may have to wait for the backend team to finish building an API before they implement. This is where Mirage.js comes in. In this tutorial, you will explore how to use Mirage.js in frontend applications and mock backend requests for services that have not yet been developed.
There’s no shortage of innovation in the financial services industry. Financial institutions have always placed a high value on innovation, as demonstrated by their willingness to fund technology-led initiatives. According to Gartner® Research Inc., “Global enterprise IT spending in the banking and investment services market is forecast to increase by 7.7% in 2023 to $666.5 billion in constant US dollars.
Writing a blueprint might be one of the hardest tasks for new or experienced users, so why would you punish yourself by writing a blueprint the old way? Cloudify’s cfy-lint tool makes writing new blueprints or improving existing ones easier. In this article, I’ll explain some of the errors cfy-lint can identify and how to fix errors automatically.
Every team has guardrails, whether you recognize them or not. They’re a form of automation that can have significant impact on your software development process and the people doing the work. They’re another way to give toil the boot and keep developers in the flow. We’ve made the case for engineering automation in a previous article; here’s how guardrails as automations ensure that agreed upon boundaries and ways of working are codified into team processes.
While your regular job may allow you to make your snooze button your best friend, what would you say to a job that requires 6-8-hour shifts (probably night shifts too) and demands that you be on call 24/7? Welcome to the life of a NOC engineer.
Graphite is a powerful open-source time series database used for storing, retrieving, and visualizing changing numeric data points over time. With its robust monitoring system, Graphite can efficiently handle large data loads without compromising performance. In this article, we delve into the basics of Graphite, focusing on its primary component, Carbon.
In the realm of cloud computing, communication and integration form the backbone of any robust architecture. With the exponential rise in distributed systems, the need for a reliable, scalable, and efficient message delivery system is more pertinent than ever. This is where Azure Service Bus, a cloud-based messaging service provided by Microsoft, becomes a game-changer.
Edge computing is defined by bringing compute resources out of remote, centralised facilities and putting them at the source of the data itself. Processing and analysis is done where the data is actually generated. The performance and cost improvements that edge computing delivers are based on this proximity. By situating our data centres close to major populations, we have delivered these benefits to many UK businesses. It is an inherently ‘local’ idea.
Ensuring the privacy and security of sensitive information is crucial no matter your company's size or industry. So when an incident comes up that includes sensitive information — Personal Identifiable Information (PII), financial data, accidental data breaches, or legal matters requiring privileged communication — your response process might need a higher level of security and discretion.
Incident response is one of the most prevalent, time-consuming, and challenging processes in an already complex IT environment. At the height of digital transformation and organizational strategy, businesses are craving success and growth during a time when next to nothing seems certain.
Welcome to our new Everyday Use Case series where we dive into some of the real-world workflows for GitKraken Workspaces. Our goal is to show you practical ways to make routine tasks faster and simpler, starting today with a scenario every development team encounters (and needs to get right): onboarding a new developer.
Monitoring IoT devices is a very important process for analyzing their behavior and ensuring their performance. You need to choose the right monitoring tools to effectively collect and analyze metrics. In this article, we will learn how to monitor your IoT devices using Mosquitto and Graphite. You will also find out what benefits you can get using a Hosted Graphite solution from MetricFire. Check out MetricFire’s free trial to test all the features it provides.
Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft to help businesses tackle challenges and build solutions through a comprehensive suite of cloud services. It offers a wide range of integrated cloud services and functionalities such as analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web, allowing developers to pick and choose from these services to develop and scale new applications, or run existing applications, in the public cloud.
Self-service can be a point of contention when it comes to certain industries, products and customer groups. Not everyone has the time or inclination for any type of DIY automobile fix, for example. Conversely, time is always of the essence when it comes to ensuring the real-time performance of business technology solutions. Therefore, many IT pros, especially those in network management, are more than willing to do it themselves.
As the latest surveys show, organizations are struggling to manage multiple clouds and to realize the expected benefits of moving to the cloud. In the Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report, for example, enterprises cited managing cloud spend and managing multi-cloud environments as their top cloud challenges. The root of these problems can be traced to cloud and cluster sprawl and the complexity of managing Kubernetes.
In the ever-evolving stock market landscape, immediate access to accurate information is crucial for investors and financial experts alike. In this piece, titled "Monitoring Real-Time Stock Quotes with MetricFire," we dive deep into the realm of advanced technology, focusing on its potential to transform stock market tracking and decision-making procedures.
Fleet, also known as “Continuous Delivery” in Rancher, deploys application workloads across multiple clusters. However, most applications need configuration and credentials. In Kubernetes, we store confidential information in secrets. For Fleet’s deployments to work on downstream clusters, we need to create these secrets on the downstream clusters themselves.
We are excited to announce that ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus is now an Android Enterprise validated Silver partner, marking a significant milestone in our commitment to delivering an exceptional mobile device management solution. As an Android Enterprise Silver partner, we offer a comprehensive feature set aligned with Android Enterprise’s best practices, empowering organizations to secure, manage, and deploy Android devices efficiently.
In this article, we will see how we can integrate an Azure data source with Graphite and Grafana. This will allow us to monitor metrics from the applications hosted in the Azure cloud on a Grafana dashboard. We will also see how to integrate Azure Active Directory with MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite and Grafana. You don’t need fully functional cloud services running with Azure to understand this article, but it assumes that you have basic familiarity with Azure Cloud.
The world of DevOps is constantly evolving and adapting to the needs of the software development industry. With the increasing demand for faster and more efficient software delivery, organizations are turning to modern technologies and practices to help them meet these challenges. In a series of articles on the Kublr blog, we will take a look at some of today’s top DevOps trends.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In the six years since we launched the initial SRE report, we've seen some similarly themed 'reports' jump on the state of site reliability bandwagon. Why? Because the impact and importance of SRE and resilience engineering have resonated across industries, prompting organizations to delve deeper into this vital domain.
Welcome to the forefront of virtualization technology, where innovation meets practicality, and the quest for optimal performance is a constant journey. If you’ve been keeping a close eye on developments in this space, you’ll know that Microsoft’s Hyper-V has been making significant strides.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and IT Process Automation (ITPA) are today’s big drivers of revolutionizing the way businesses operate – and they’re nowhere near finished. While RPA and ITPA have their significant differences, they share just enough similarities to have successfully helped organizations in multiple industries automate processes, reduce costs, improve accuracy, and deliver better customer experiences.
As more and more of the public sector enact large-scale digital transformation initiatives, government organizations must find new ways to manage massive amounts of data securely while maintaining compliance. With new mandates from the Biden administration to enhance cybersecurity best practices in both the private and public sectors, organizations like the Department of Defense (DoD) face new challenges to their data management and communication practices.
Managing incidents is already tricky enough, and you want to get to mitigation as quickly as possible. But sometimes it feels like organizing everything surrounding an incident is more difficult than solving the actual technical problem and you end up getting delayed or sidetracked during mitigation efforts. We call that scenario the “people problem” of incident management.
A pull request (PR) is (quite literally) a request to pull a change into a project’s code or documentation. It is a popular change management process supported by many VCS providers including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Codeberg, and others. Typically these come with features to track open pull requests, tools to assist in reviewing the changes, the ability to approve—or reject—PRs, and finally to merge approved PRs.
Compare Graphite and Prometheus, two leading open-source monitoring solutions.
This blog post provides an in-depth overview of these options and outlines strategies for optimizing data center efficiency, the role of AI-powered analytics, and important security measures to consider when choosing a DCIM solution.
IT admins are expected to keep the organization’s network reliable and resilient all while the complexity of today’s networks grows. From adopting hybrid infrastructures and maintaining multi-cloud environments’ security to managing ever-increasing bandwidth demands, enterprise network management is getting more difficult by day.
Grafana is a powerful open-source visualization solution that provides valuable insights into the performance of infrastructure, applications, and servers. With customizable visualizations and support for diverse data sources and formats, Grafana allows IT teams to collect and visualize data from various sources.
In the realm of virtualization, snapshots play an integral role in managing virtual machines (VMs). Essentially, a snapshot captures the state of a VM at a specific point in time, providing a reference point to which you can revert if necessary. This can be especially handy when implementing changes to your VM or its applications, allowing you to quickly undo the changes if they cause any unforeseen issues.
In this article, we will deploy a clustered Prometheus setup that integrates Thanos. It is resilient against node failures and ensures appropriate data archiving. The setup is also scalable. It can span multiple Kubernetes clusters under the same monitoring umbrella. Finally, we will visualize and monitor all our data in accessible and beautiful Grafana dashboards.
Did you know that data centers are some of the most energy-intensive buildings? They consume 10 to 50 times the energy per floor space of a typical office building. As governments, industry regulators, and customers demand more energy efficient data centers, data center managers are tasked to comply with corporate sustainability initiatives by finding new ways to innovate and reduce energy consumption.
What separates successful IT teams from unsuccessful ones is the quality of their documentation. Without proper documentation, your technicians are likely to spend too much time searching for the information they need to perform tasks and resolve issues. They may make errors or respond to issues belatedly, which could impact service levels. Successful organizations ensure their documentation is always well structured, organized, accurate and up to date.
In today’s digital landscape, automation plays a crucial role in streamlining operations and improving efficiency within IT. One popular automation solution is Azure Automation, offered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. But how much does Azure Automation cost? Is an Azure Automation Account free? In this blog post, we will delve into the cost structure of Azure Automation, explore where the costs lie and put the costs of Azure Automation into context.
Have you heard about eBPF? It’s the technology that’s set to transform the Kubernetes landscape. In this article, we’ll explore what eBPF is and why it’s poised to become the next big thing in Kubernetes. But here’s the catch – despite its game-changing potential, it seems that few people are truly aware of its impact. Let’s delve into the details and discover why you should care.
Meet Pal. Pal is a senior developer working at PalBank. For the next 6 months, Pal will be responsible for leading the development of the bank’s web application client, which will be used daily by millions of customers.
The State of DevOps Report finds a clear link between documentation quality and an organization’s ability to meet its performance goals.
Today, businesses and organizations rely heavily on metrics and analytics to make informed decisions. Metrics are important whether you’re a developer, a marketer, or the head of a company. One type of metric that is widely used is a time-series metric. Time-series metrics provide insights into how data changes over time. With time-series data, businesses can track trends, detect anomalies, and make predictions.
When you survey developers on how to improve engineering practices and their daily job experience, their answers invariably include getting rid of little annoying things - what's called toil. Toil is manual and repetitive tasks that waste your time. Toil is arguably worse than crisis, because a crisis is temporary and firefighting can feel rewarding when it's over. Toil is more like a death march - an insidious force that eventually leads to burnout.
PostgreSQL is one of the most popular relational databases on the market today with more than 1.5 billion users. This article will discuss everything you need to know about monitoring PostgreSQL, and how you can use it to optimize your site's data monitoring. If you want to get started right away on PostgreSQL database monitoring with MetricFire, you can book a demo or sign up for the free trial today.
Implementing Azure DevOps can bring numerous benefits to your organization. The impact of Azure DevOps is felt across many aspects of the software development lifecycle, including planning, development, delivery, and operations.
The Network Operations Center (NOC)— the powerful, centralized epicenter that supervises, monitors, and maintains network availability—is the core of the network infrastructure. It’s up to the NOC to keep large, complex networks running reliably.
This post will introduce Checkly, the synthetic monitoring solution, and their monitoring as code approach. This guest post was written by Hannes Lenke, the CEO, and co-founder of Checkly. First, thanks to Birol and the ilert team for the opportunity to introduce Checkly. ilert recently announced discontinuing its uptime monitoring feature and worked with us on an integration to ensure that existing customers could migrate seamlessly. So, what is monitoring as code and Checkly?
Infrastructure performance management (IPM) is the process and associated tools for ensuring the overall health of your entire IT ecosystem so it operates at optimal levels. Because your infrastructure supports your entire enterprise—from daily operations to strategic initiatives—the stakes are high.
In an increasingly interconnected and data-driven world, where information shapes decisions and fuels innovation, the integrity of data has become paramount. However, lurking beneath the surface is a silent threat that can undermine trust, compromise systems, and wreak havoc on organizations: data tampering. In this post, we delve into the realm of data tampering, exploring the vulnerabilities, the reasons behind data tampering practices, and countermeasures against them.
Every professional wants to advance in their careers and IT pros are no different. You’ve probably wondered how to do and be more as an IT technician. How do you distinguish yourself from Joe, who sits next to you and is also a jack of all IT trades? How do you go from being a common IT guy to being an IT hero? Let’s look at the top 10 sysadmin essential skills you could learn to boost your career and enhance your salary.
If you are looking into the cloud-native world, then the chances of coming across the term “Kubernetes” is high. Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system that has the primary responsibility of being a container orchestrator. This has quickly become a lifeline for managing our containerized applications through creating automated deployments.
In the realm of virtualization and cloud computing, VMware has been a leading name for years, offering robust and innovative solutions to businesses of all sizes. Their products have transformed the way organizations manage their IT infrastructure, enabling them to create flexible, scalable, and secure virtual environments. On March 18, 2023, VMware introduced the latest version of their flagship product, VMware vSphere 8.0.
We’ve all been there. You’re working through some rather frustrating blockers during an incident only to discover that you don’t own the dependency at fault. Or, you’ve been pounding away at an issue when a fellow engineer reaches out and asks if your service is affected by some particularly gnarly database failure they’re seeing. But then what? Do you merge efforts and work in parallel or head for a coffee break while the issue gets attacked upstream?
As the popularity of Windows Subsystem for Linux increases, the Ubuntu development team is committed to delivering a first class experience for Linux developers on Windows. To achieve this we’ve made improvements to our automated testing workflows via the creation of WSL-specific GitHub actions. In this post, Ubuntu WSL engineer Eduard Gómez Escandell talks us through the motivation for this approach and how you can implement these actions for your own CI workflows.
The evolution of information technology is governed by how businesses adapt to ever-increasing amounts of data. Those businesses most able to exploit more data, win. Terms such as ‘speed’ and ‘agility’ refer to how a business handles and uses this data. Given the 2.5 quintillion bytes created every day, there is a huge opportunity for businesses to create unassailable leadership.
Overview of what is high cardinality in the context of monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.
Looking to share a group of repos with someone? In this update, we’re introducing easier Workspace collaboration along with other power ups for your everyday version control. Let’s dive in and discover what’s new!
The latest surveys show that organizations are struggling to manage multi-cloud environments and overcome problems that include cloud cost, complexity, security, and visibility. In the Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report, for example, enterprises cited managing cloud spend and managing multi-cloud environments as their top cloud challenges.
A major incident represents a critical event that poses a real or potential threat to an information system's confidentiality, integrity, or availability. Major incidents can disrupt normal operations, impact your customers, and may compromise the security of sensitive data.
In this article, we will look at how to monitor Node.js applications using Graphite and StatsD and plot the visualizations on a Grafana dashboard. Node.js is a popular framework for creating microservices. Its asynchronous nature allows for high scalability and low latency, especially for I/O bound tasks. However, it is important to have a proper monitoring setup for any application which is running in a production environment.
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In this article, we will explore what Cisco NX OS is and what it is used for. You will find out what metrics are and why it is very important to monitor them. Then, we will look at how to monitor Cisco NX OS metrics with Grafana, a graphical data visualization tool, and how MetricFire can help us with this. In order to learn more about MetricFire, book a demo with our technical specialists or sign up for the MetricFire free trial today.
Snapshot quiescing, a technique employed in the world of virtualization, stands as a pivotal concept to grasp for anyone involved in IT operations. In particular, when working with VMware, understanding snapshot quiescing can significantly streamline your backup and restore operations. It’s a crucial process that ensures the data on a Virtual Machine (VM) is in a consistent state when a snapshot is taken.
Data centre efficiency is a central cost factor in enterprise IT environments. So, in the face of rising energy costs and increasingly resource-intensive workloads, it is more important than ever for businesses to seek out greater optimisation. Traditionally, CPUs have been used for the majority of data centre workloads, including network related tasks.
June 13, Vancouver, OpenInfra Summit – Canonical today announced the extension of its commercial OpenStack offering to small-scale cloud environments with a new project Sunbeam. The project is 100% open source and is available free-of-charge. Early adopters can also opt-in for comprehensive security coverage and full commercial support under the Ubuntu Pro + Support subscriptions once they complete the deployment themselves.
If you had the power to predict the future, how would you use it? Gartner refers to the predictive modeling process as that which collects data, formulates a statistical model, makes predictions, and then validates the model as additional data becomes available. In the world of intelligent automation, teams use predictive modeling to formulate how future outcomes or behaviors will be, by using historical data, machine learning (ML) algorithms, and analytical techniques.
Kubernetes has become the de-facto platform for containerized applications. But it’s a fractured environment and each Kubernetes distribution has their own nuances. Further, much of today’s cloud native software design assumes a healthy Internet connection, which is not always available. What’s missing is a standardized way to deliver applications on top of any Kubernetes, without an Internet connection (also known as air-gapped deployments).
This Kubernetes Architecture series covers the main components used in Kubernetes and provides an introduction to Kubernetes architecture. After reading these blogs, you’ll have a much deeper understanding of the main reasons for choosing Kubernetes as well as the main components that are involved when you start running applications on Kubernetes.
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that has gained significant popularity in DevOps and systems monitoring. At the core of Prometheus lies PromQL (Prometheus Query Language), a powerful and flexible query language used to extract valuable insights from the collected metrics. In this guide, we will explore the basics of PromQL and provide query examples for an example use case.
Rancher Desktop is equipped with convenient and powerful features that make it stand out as one of the best developer tools and the fastest ways to build and deploy Kubernetes locally. In this blog, we will tackle Rancher Desktop´s functionalities and features to guide you and help you take full advantage of all the benefits of using Rancher Desktop as a container management platform and for running local Kubernetes.
Everything you want to know about high cardinality in cloud native environments and how to manage it effectively.
Bridging the gap between development and operations has become essential for the cultural shifts seen in organizations today. DevOps allows these concepts to be brought together, creating an influential blend of cultural philosophies, practices, and technological instruments, facilitating a quicker delivery of products and services. Throughout this blog, I will explore how we should all be embracing DevOps to allow our organizations to compete in an ever-changing digital world.
Everything you want to know about Prometheus and Thanos, their differences, and how they can work together.
From applications in telecommunications to edge cloud and industrial digital twins, experimenting with real-time capabilities in cloud technologies is a trend in the industry. Applications for the edge often have an additional requirement as they interact with real-time systems: they need to run deterministically. It means that time constraints their execution and interaction within the system.
Recently, Ron DeSantis used Twitter Spaces to launch his presidential campaign. At least, he tried to. As you may have heard, the event was marred with technical difficulties, resulting in false starts, confused hosts, glitches, echoes, and the “melting” of servers. Of the more than 600,000 Twitter users who initially tuned in, less than half remained by the time they relaunched the event using a different account.
With the growing popularity of Kubernetes as a container orchestration platform powering the microservices revolution, comes greater complexity with managing, monitoring, and responding to incidents at scale. Challenges with real production environments include full visibility into your clusters and environment’s health, alongside real-time incident management and response.
Serverless, as you may already know, is a cloud computing model where the cloud provider dynamically manages and allocates resources to execute code without the need for server provisioning or infrastructure management on the developer. This article overviews serverless observability, monitoring, and debugging, based on distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry (OTel).
Here's what you can expect to learn from this article: Raise your hand if you like shipping changes quickly. (Yes, let's assume that everything you're shipping has value and isn't a vanity project). Chances are, you, the person reading this now, agreed with the above. When you start on a project, big or small, you want to keep any changes moving along and avoid getting stuck. The less time between the beginning and end of a project, the faster you can shift your focus to other things.
This article explores the efficient monitoring of Heroku Apps using MetricFire's HostedGraphite plugin and Grafana dashboards. By combining these tools, developers can gain valuable insights into their app's performance and resource utilization. This guide provides step-by-step instructions on setting up MetricFire, integrating StatsD, and creating comprehensive Grafana dashboards for effective monitoring and debugging.
Dynamic application security testing (DAST) is a critical security measure for modern software delivery pipelines. It involves evaluating the security of web applications by actively testing them in real-time, simulating real-world attacks to identify vulnerabilities. As the cybersecurity threat landscape has evolved, DAST has emerged as a key tool for enforcing application security in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
Learn what is OpenTelemetry: The open-source observability framework for collecting and processing telemetry data from applications and systems.
Canonical announced the general availability of Ubuntu’s real-time kernel earlier this year. Since then, our community raised several questions regarding the workings of the kernel and tuning guidelines. We aim to provide answers in this and an upcoming follow-up post. Depending on your background knowledge, you may wish to start with the basics of preemption and a real-time system. In that case, this introductory webinar or our blog series on what is real-time Linux, is for you.
When deploying a mission-critical Kubernetes infrastructure, the support you receive from your vendor is as important as the product. This is why we at D2iQ are especially pleased and proud that our D2iQ Customer Operations Team has won the Gold Stevie Award for Support Team of the Year for 2023. The American Business Awards, also known as the Stevie Awards, are billed as the “world’s premier business awards” and are judged by a panel of more than 200 industry experts.
It seems like we can’t escape the burden of uncertainty. From the countless things we were uncertain about during the Covid-19 pandemic to the current state of the economy, financial circumstances and trends, and fear of unemployment. For many of today’s businesses of all sizes, predicting the future might appear nearly impossible. IT teams at the start of the pandemic in 2020 shifted without notice to supporting remote employees.
Imagine your popular website or app suddenly slowing down significantly or even stopping altogether. You scramble to find the root cause while losing customers and income every minute. This stressful situation is all too familiar, but you can avoid it. Proactively monitoring MySQL databases can help prevent these issues and keep your performance at its best.
IT networks are the foundation of businesses today. Robust networks enable organizations to conduct seamless business operations and deliver services continuously to customers. To maintain healthy, robust networks, companies depend on ITOps. ITOps refers to the provisioning, monitoring, and management of IT networks to ensure maximum uptime and a better end-user experience.
The integration of Development and Operations is a powerful innovation in how we build software. If you're new to DevOps practices, or looking to improve your current processes, it can be tough to know which tool is best for your team. We've put together this list to help you make an informed decision on which tools should be part of your stack. Read on to discover the 29 best DevOps tools, from automated build tools to application performance monitoring platforms.
Today I am thrilled to introduce our Intelligent Deployment Analysis feature, designed to significantly improve your troubleshooting process. Picture this: you're stuck, scratching your head over what went wrong with your deployment - was it the Node.js asset compiler or a missing package in your Dockerfile?
Graphite is a very popular enterprise monitoring tool. This article will address the common issues that occur while setting up a Graphite instance, and how they can be avoided. We will assume readers have already become acquainted with Graphite, but if you’re interested to learn about the basics of Graphite, check out our articles on the Architecture and Concepts of Graphite and the Installation and Setup before reading this article.
It’s easy to get pulled into paying more and more at a major monitoring company, despite not getting the functionality that you’re looking for. Leaving your monitoring provider can be difficult because it means replacing expensive software or hardware, re-educating your team, and transferring huge amounts of data to a new system - data that may or may not be well suited to the new system. Despite these issues, there are many reasons that motivate users to move to open source.
As we continue to see rapid technological advancements, organizations must evolve and adapt to maintain a competitive edge. The principles of DevOps - collaboration, automation, continuous integration, and delivery - have emerged as critical success factors in this landscape, enabling organizations to navigate the ever-changing environment.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the current buzz word in IT with AI promoted as the magic ingredient for improving business performance across a wide range of areas. But how, specifically, does AI enhance Network Management? The idea that computers can manage themselves is nothing new.
Every data center has a rhythm. When you think about a single application—SAP, for example—it has certain “beats.” First thing Monday morning, you see a steady and fast cadence, while over the weekend, it slows to a light tap. And there may be seasonality that rises to a crescendo.
June 7, 2023 It’s no secret that Kubernetes is one of the fastest-growing technologies in use today for deploying and operating applications of all types in the cloud. It’s also no secret that Kubernetes’ popularity is a significant contributor to fast-growing cloud bills. FinOps teams are constantly looking for ways to lower their cloud spend, in cooperation with the DevOps, Engineering and App owner teams that control this infrastructure.
Canonical’s MLOps portfolio is growing with a new machine learning tool. Charmed MLFlow 2.1 is now available in Beta. MLFlow is a crucial component of the open-source MLOps ecosystem. The project announced it had passed 10 million monthly downloads at the end of 2022. With Charmed MLFlow users benefit from a platform where they can easily manage machine learning models and workflows.
As the UK’s edge infrastructure provider, we’ve launched platformEDGE™ — a next-generation platform that will enable regional businesses across the UK to harness the opportunity of digital transformation. PlatformEDGE is a UK-wide integrated infrastructure that enables scalable, high-performance, low-latency edge application delivery.
A comprehensive guide on understanding high cardinality Prometheus metrics, proven ways to find high cardinality metrics and manage them.
5G has the potential to revolutionise the telecommunications industry, offering high speed and connectivity for a wide range of devices ranging from radio access networks (RAN), user equipment (UE), and core networks. However, the high costs associated with 5G infrastructure have been a significant blocker for adoption, hindering innovation and growth in this area. This blog discusses the primary challenges faced in the telecom industry and how open source technologies are helping to resolve them.
In our recent webinar on air-gapped security, D2iQ VP of Product Dan Ciruli shared a new way of thinking about air-gapping, explaining how air-gapping could be applied in places that are not usually considered candidates for air-gapping. In an exchange of insights with Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, Ciruli explained how the need for air-gapped security has become more critical as more organizations move to the cloud.
CI/CD pipelines have become a cornerstone of agile development, streamlining the software development life cycle. They allow for frequent code integration, fast testing and deployment. Having these processes automated help development teams reduce manual errors, ensure faster time-to-market, and deliver enhancements to end-users. However, they also pose risks that could compromise stability of their development ecosystem.
This Kubernetes Architecture series covers the main components used in Kubernetes and provides an introduction to Kubernetes architecture. After reading these blogs, you’ll have a much deeper understanding of the main reasons for choosing Kubernetes as well as the main components that are involved when you start running applications on Kubernetes. This blog series covers the following topics.
Kubernetes has created a major impact on modern software development because it is a powerful open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to deploy and manage complex containerized applications at scale. In this blog, we will cover how Rancher Desktop can help developers run and manage Kubernetes locally.
The rollout of new technology can come with hesitation and even fear, and generative AI is no different. The New York Times in February 2023 dubbed the popularity of ChatGPT a “phenomenon” that started an AI arms race – one that wasn’t exactly welcomed by news writers, marketing agencies, or business leaders.
The IT world is continuously evolving and there are so many resources to help you keep up to speed. However, it’s a challenge for even senior sysadmins to sift through all the available resources to identify the ones that are most relevant and useful. In this blog, we identify some key resources across various channels to not only help you stay up to date with the latest technologies but also to improve your skills and career opportunities.
What is Prometheus Operator, how it can be used to deploy Prometheus Stack in Kubernetes environment.
Developer, SRE, IT, and security teams often perform complex and error-prone processes in response to disruptions and changes in their systems. Relying on these processes requires a significant amount of time switching between tools to gather the relevant context needed for remediation, domain expertise, and the manual execution of tasks for incident management—which can significantly prolong disruptions and downtime.
Businesses rely on software solutions increasingly in our modern age, and it’s constantly evolving. Compared to some of the software being used in the early 2000s, we’ve seen large changes, resulting in more complex frameworks, which come with their own unique changes. As software and systems become more complex, so increases the probability of errors occurring and the level of jeopardy those errors might present.
HTTP/3 is the latest generation of the HTTP protocol, and its ability to serve applications over QUIC offers several advantages for user experience, including reduced latency, improved reliability, and faster page loading as a result of fixing the head-of-line blocking issue in previous versions of HTTP. Both HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise offer support for using HTTP/3 over QUIC, although the steps for enabling QUIC in HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise are different.
Choosing the right website platform is an important decision for anyone looking to establish a solid online presence. In fact, choosing the wrong website platform has exposed brands to issues like security breaches, poor mobile responsiveness, and terrible load speeds. To buttress the last point, Google research showed that 32% of users would leave your website if it experiences poor load speed. In other words, they want a good user experience.
Michael Coté and Marc Zottner co-wrote this article. Legacy software can slow—or even stop—business growth. As organizations hit a legacy wall, they face an unfortunate reality: When IT systems are too old and unchangeable, it’s impossible to transform the way their core business works. In fact, 76 percent of executives say that legacy software is holding them back, according to a Forrester report commissioned by VMware. What does that mean for today’s businesses?
If you’ve ever attempted to cultivate a backyard vegetable garden, flower garden for your balcony, hydroponic tower, or other system to grow plants, you’ll understand that it’s not a matter of tossing down some seeds in soil and letting nature take its course. Without proper monitoring and management, ecosystems may grow out of control, or simply wither and die off.
Corey Dinkens, Sneha Narang, and Lauren Britton contributed to this blog post. VMware Tanzu Mission Control is a centralized hub for simplified, multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes management. It helps platform teams take control of their Kubernetes clusters with visibility across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments by allowing users to group clusters and perform operations on these groupings.
Incidents and accidents can occur in various domains, from information technology and cybersecurity breaches to workplace accidents and transportation mishaps. When faced with such incidents, it becomes crucial to conduct a thorough analysis to understand the underlying causes and implications. Incident analysis goes beyond problem-solving; it offers valuable insights into preventing future occurrences and improving systems and processes.
In this in-depth guide we’ll explore CRLF injection, a web application security vulnerability that can have severe consequences. First, we’ll cover what CRLF injection is, the types of CRLF injection attacks, and their potential impacts. Additionally, we’ll discuss similarities with other attacks, payloads used in these exploits, and how to prevent CRLF injection. Finally, we’ll touch on the role of OWASP in addressing this security risk.
In this post we’ll explore Terraform Import, a powerful command-line tool that allows you to bring existing infrastructure under Terraform management. We’ll cover what Terraform Import is, its common use cases, and how to use it effectively. Additionally, we’ll discuss some limitations you should be aware of when using Terraform Import.
Monitoring APIs through enhanced observability has gained traction with the popularity of microservices. Since microservice applications are built as independent and scalable modules, the number of microservices can grow dramatically as the application grows, increasing the complexity drastically. Since APIs work as the connective tissue between microservices, the number of APIs also grows in parallel.
What is Prometheus and Grafana, What is Prometheus and Grafana used for, What is difference between Prometheus and Grafana.
Modern continuous integration (CI) practices enable development teams to quickly and efficiently build and deploy application code to a shared codebase. However, deploying new code is typically accompanied by tests, and as the codebase expands, this results in a proportionately larger test suite.
ESXi, short for Elastic Sky X Integrated, is a groundbreaking virtualization solution engineered by the tech giant VMware. Functioning as a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi stands out from other solutions due to its ability to run directly on the system hardware without the need for an underlying operating system. By providing a platform where virtual machines can efficiently function and interact, ESXi has emerged as an indispensable component in today’s technology-driven business ecosystem.
In today’s rapidly changing digital environment, the significance of robust Docker container security measures cannot be overstated. Even the containerised layer is subject to compliance standards, which raise security concerns and compliance requirements. Docker container security measures entail safeguarding our lightweight, appliance-type containers –each encapsulating code and its dependencies– from threats and vulnerabilities.
Kubernetes (K8s) is a popular container orchestration solution, but monitoring its performance can be quite challenging. Luckily, there's a solution that makes it easier - MetricFire. It's a cloud-based monitoring and visualization platform that provides comprehensive metrics, alerts, and dashboards for K8s clusters. The platform offers amazing cloud-based monitoring and visualization services that can make the K8s monitoring seamless.
Azure Storage is a cloud-based service that provides scalable, secure and highly available data storage solutions for applications running in the cloud. It offers different types of storage options like Blob storage, Queue storage, Table storage and File storage. Blob storage is used to store unstructured data like images, videos, audios and documents while Queue storage helps in building scalable applications with loosely coupled architecture.
The retail industry is going through a period of major upheaval. AI is transforming the landscape at a rapid pace. Grand View Research evaluated the market value at USD 5.79 billion in 2021 and this is expected to grow at a 23.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2022 to 2030. For retailers, this translates into a need to adapt to an entirely new paradigm of customer expectations.
The first moments of incident response can be among the most crucial, which in turn can also make them among the most stressful. There are many ways to ensure incidents are kicked off smoothly, but a recent focus of ours was to ensure they could be kicked off quickly. After all, the faster you're able to start mitigating your incident, the more successful you'll be!
Implementing a Cognitive Network Operations Center (Cognitive NOC) comes with its fair share of challenges, but businesses must be able to rely on technology to operate and grow, making network performance, reliability, and security top priorities.
Building momentum for a reliability program can be tough. Improving reliability takes time, effort, and resources. But when everything from launching new features to improving security demands those same resources, it can be a struggle to get the buy-in you need to address reliability risks. And it makes sense! If a team spends time patching a known security bug or creating a new feature, they have a clear demonstration of the value created.
The zero trust security model is an approach to network security that enforces strict access controls and authentication at every stage of the software development lifecycle. It treats every user, device, and transaction as a security risk and uses the principle of least privilege to restrict access to sensitive resources and minimize the potential attack surface.
