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A guide to cyber threat hunting with Promtail, Grafana Loki, Sigma, and Grafana Cloud

Fact: The Security Operations team at Grafana Labs loves logs. They are a key pillar of observability for many reasons, such as how they are stuffed full of details to help us diagnose the “why?” when things go wrong. This is especially true when the information pertains not to a series of unfortunate events, but instead to an adversary trying to cause us harm.

Martello's Top Ten for 2022

As we head towards the end of 2022, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and those who have helped to shape our business. In our small way of giving back, we have made a donation to the Red Cross on behalf of our global customers, partners and employees so that they can continue to rapidly respond to emergencies or emerging humanitarian needs anywhere in the world. Below we have curated a list of the year’s developments that have helped us bring more value to our customers and partners.

ScienceLogic Celebrates the End of a Stellar Year with Strong Performance in Forrester Wave

We are excited to announce that ScienceLogic has excelled in the Forrester Wave for AIOps again! We are proud to be named a Strong Performer this year—receiving the highest marks possible in the product vision, execution roadmap, performance, and automation and remediation criterion. Our Chief Product Officer, Michael Nappi, spoke about this great news, our recent acquisition of Zebrium, and ScienceLogic’s own journey to AIOps.

Elastic recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps), Q4 2022

We are excited to announce that Elastic has been recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps), Q4 2022 in our first year participating! As organizations modernize their infrastructure and applications, operations and development teams are faced with an exponential growth in data.

What is Internet Performance Monitoring and How is it Different from APM?

Most Internet-centric organizations today use some form of APM tools, as they should. But they are insufficient. Over the last ten years, the world has completely changed. If you think about it, in the first decade of this millennium, most businesses had an Exchange server, maybe Siebel CRM, a file share, and a range of other business apps, usually hosted in the same building. Everything was on the LAN. Today, it is the exact opposite. Everything is distributed.

How to monitor the status of external services

Monitoring the status of external services connected to your business is essential for providing reliable and efficient customer service. An effective way to stay ahead of any issues is by monitoring all of the services connected to your business so that you can address any potential problems before they have a chance to have a negative impact on operations. In this article, we will be discussing how to monitor external services’ status and the importance of having access to accurate data.

Icinga DB Web deep custom variable filter

In this blog post I will introduce you to filtering, based on deep custom variables in Icinga DB Web. In Icinga Web 2 monitoring module, it is not possible to filter deep custom variables. Example of deep custom variables involving dictionaries and arrays: This is because in the database (IDO) the suitable structure for the custom variables is not available. The dictionaries and arrays in the custom variables are saved in json format as shown below.