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Detecting and Preventing Log4J Attacks with Cribl LogStream

Shortly before the December holidays, a vulnerability in the ubiquitous Log4J library arrived like the Grinch, Scrooge, and Krampus rolled into one monstrous bundle of Christmas misery. Log4J maintainers went to work patching the exploit, and security teams scrambled to protect millions of exposed applications before they got owned. At Cribl, we put together multiple resources to help security teams detect and prevent the Log4J vulnerability using LogStream.

Detecting Log4J/Log4Shell exploits with LogStream

Shortly before the December holidays, a vulnerability in the ubiquitous Log4J library arrived like the Grinch, Scrooge, and Krampus rolled into one monstrous bundle of Christmas misery. Log4J maintainers went to work patching the exploit, and security teams scrambled to protect millions of exposed applications before they got owned. At Cribl, we put together multiple resources to help security teams detect and prevent the Log4J vulnerability using LogStream.

How the new k6 Cloud app plugin makes it easy to correlate QA data and system metrics in Grafana

One of the common challenges when doing performance testing is the difficulty of correlating the metrics of your application with your testing results. Having available QA, infrastructure, and application metrics together allows engineering teams to better understand the behavior of their systems during the testing, helping to detect and prevent potential issues in their applications.

How to Find WordPress Performance Bottlenecks

Monitoring is a critical part of managing a WordPress site since you need to know what's going on with it, such as how many visitors it has, how quickly it loads, and whether it's constantly online. Data on these areas will aid you in making critical decisions, resulting in improved performance, happier visitors, and, if applicable, a higher bottom line. Many factors can cause WordPress to slow down, but you don't need to be a techie to address them.

Learning the tricks of Grafana Loki for distributed logging at scale in a Kubernetes environment

Logging can provide immense detail when used well, or it can become a firehose and take hours to trawl through. The team supporting the Kubernetes platform at Civo needed a solution that was simple and performant and could be queried in ways to help and not hinder them In this talk, Civo SRE Anaïs Urlichs and Principal Engineer Alex Jones will illustrate how Loki was chosen and brought into the organization to empower engineers. Integrating with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards, Loki has allowed engineers to filter for precise information that helps them debug quicker.

Next Level Ruby on Rails Application Monitoring with AppSignal

In the first of this two-part series, we covered how to set up AppSignal in a Ruby on Rails application for many great insights out of the box. AppSignal can automatically track errors, monitor performance, and report metrics about some dependencies. But, in many cases, each of our applications behaves in different ways, so we'll want more than just generic monitoring. In this post, we will run through adding custom instrumentation and monitoring to a Ruby on Rails application.

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DevOps State of Mind Podcast Episode 6: The Future of DevSecOps with EMA

Chris Steffen is a research director for information security at Enterprise Management Associates. EMA is a leading analyst and consulting firm that prides itself on going beyond the surface to provide deep insights about the IT industry. I'm Liesse from LogDNA. Before we dive in, I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for tuning in to season one of DevOps State of Mind.