Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Announcing the Elastic Contributor Program

Open source contributions are foundational to Elastic — from Elasticsearch’s Apache Lucene core to the addition of open source Logstash and Kibana to form the Elastic Stack you’ve come to know and love. Over the years, the Elastic community has created over 90 Beats, shared use case tutorials like those from Volvo, T-Mobile, and Microsoft, and presented at hundreds upon hundreds of meetups.

Bold, insightful, real-time: Visualizing APM data with Canvas in Kibana

Since we launched Canvas in 2018, we have seen tons of our users create beautiful dashboards that tell stories with Elasticsearch data. In the spirit of making it even easier to get started, we are creating templates that you can import and get instantly beautiful dashboards for all the data the Elastic Stack captures.

Your Burning Questions about AIOps and Observability Answered

A fireside chat to discuss use cases and deployment tips for AIOps with observability generated a stream of compelling questions from attendees, which the Moogsoft hosts answered with depth and expertise. Combining AIOps analysis with detailed observability data is key for DevOps and SRE teams to attain continuous service assurance, so Moogsoft just published a new ebook about this topic titled “Observability with AIOps For Dummies.”

How to Use the Triple-A Framework to Optimize Your IT Services

Marketing teams have the 4 Ps (product, price, place, and promotion). Sales teams have ABC (Always Be Closing). As far as frameworks go, there are a lot of great examples out there for how we can effectively do our jobs, create processes, and make decisions. But what about IT teams looking to optimize their services? Do any frameworks exist? One does, it’s called the triple-A framework—and it’s got nothing to do with batteries.

How to Avoid SLA-Killing, Budget-Busting Cloud Performance Problems

There are lots of excellent reasons to move applications into the public cloud. But those benefits cannot come at the expense (pun intended) of performance. Your SLAs, whether explicitly stated and written into contracts or implicitly promised through your commitment to quality, are part of your brand. Falling short is costly. Even if you don’t have to pay penalty fees, your reputation and customer loyalty can take a hit.

Kubernetes Logging and Monitoring: What Kubernetes Can and Can't Do Natively

Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool, but its functionality extends far beyond just orchestrating containers in a narrow sense. It offers a range of additional features that—to a limited extent—address needs such as load balancing, access control, security policy enforcement, and even logging and monitoring. Indeed, Kubernetes’s broad functionality has led some folks to call it an “operating system” in its own right.

Putting You in Control of Your InfluxDB Cloud Spend

We recently changed the pricing of InfluxDB Cloud to let you control your cloud database spend so you spend only as much as you need to run your software and systems — with no wasted budget. If you just want a summary, check the InfluxDB Cloud pricing page. But if you’d like to nerd out on the changes we made, why we made them, and how to estimate your monthly spend on InfluxDB, then buckle up for a deep dive.

Hassle-free IP and switch port management with NetFlow Analyzer's IPAM SPM add-on

“The IP of that device? Let me look it up in this spreadsheet with a never-ending list of IP addresses! *sigh*” Sound familiar? Do you often need to block a certain port allowing unauthorized traffic, get the MAC address of the IP taking up most of your bandwidth, or scan for rogue devices entering your network? Then the IPAM SPM add-on is the solution for you!

Monitor containers on Amazon Bottlerocket with Datadog

Amazon’s Bottlerocket is a new Linux-based open-source operating system that’s designed with containers in mind. Bottlerocket is optimized and stripped down to only the essential software needed to run containers. You can apply updates to Bottlerocket in a single step, and roll them back instantly if necessary. And, because it’s open-source, you can customize the operating system to fit your specific needs.