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SUNBURST Backdoor: What to look for in your logs now - Interview with an incident responder

Yesterday, FireEye published a report about a global intrusion campaign that utilized a backdoor planted in SolarWinds Orion. Attackers gained access to the download servers of Orion. They managed to infect signed installers downloaded by Orion users who had all reason to believe that the packages are safe and had not been tampered with. With this information out in the world, teams are scrambling to investigate if their environments are affected by this breach.

Node.js Logging Made Easy: A Tutorial on Just About Everything You Need to Know

Building SaaS products is hard. Making customers happy is even harder. I should know, I’ve built a start-up that failed! But, not everything is that bad. I learned a lot. Now I maintain a few open-source Node.js projects at Sematext. It’s an observability SaaS. I joined to help make the log management features as good as they can be. If you’ve never heard that term before, my co-worker wrote a great introductory explanation of what Log Management is right here.

Effective troubleshooting with Grafana Loki - query basics

Loki doesn't index your logs, and that is a very different approach than popular full-text search engines like Elasticsearch or Solr That sounds like a huge constraint. How can you do powerful searches if you don't index the log lines? After this video, you now know how to use Loki's "filter" capability for forensic troubleshooting. Happy searching!

Alerts to answers: guided root cause exploration for AWS apps (Snoop)

Troubleshooting incidents in a modern AWS app is challenging given the diversity of AWS services in use and the dependencies between them. This customer session will lead AWS infra/DevOps engineers and SREs through a root cause exploration methodology and best practices that will reduce time to resolution.

Application Performance Management for Microservices with Sumo Logic

Distributed tracing allows you to track the execution of your user's transactions by following them between applications’ microservices. It provides easy to understand visualizations of transactional lifespan with the ability to pinpoint any slowdowns and errors in response to microservices. During my presentation at Illuminate, I shared that we extended the Sumo Logic platform to cover application performance use cases.

20 Best Cloud Monitoring Tools of 2021: Pros & Cons Comparison

When providing services to your customers you need to keep an eye on everything that could impact your success with that – from low-level performance metrics to high-level business key performance indicators. From server-side logs to stack traces giving you full visibility into business and software processes that underpin your product. That’s where cloud monitoring tools and services come into play.

Illuminate 2020 Keynote: Christian Beedgen

Watch as Christian Beedgen, Co-Founder & CTO of Sumo Logic shares his thoughts and musings on Sumo Logic’s ten year anniversary, and some great tech talk, including a demonstration of our end-to-end observability solution for DevSecOps. This keynote session was part of Sumo Logic’s 4th annual Illuminate user conference.