Maintaining product focus is the best way to guarantee a successful business. As the late great Steve Jobs put it: “if you keep an eye on the profits, you’re going to skimp on the product… but if you focus on making really great products, the profits will follow.” There are a wide variety of statistics available on how much time developers actually spend writing code, anywhere from 25% to 32%.
Error logs are the first port of call for any outage. Great error logs provide context and cause to a mysterious, 3am outage. Engineers often treat error logs as an afterthought. However, with some up front planning, error logs can become incredibly powerful. Let’s get right into it.
In this lesson, we’ll learn how we can use Elasticsearch Hadoop to process very large amounts of data. For our exercise, we’ll use a simple Apache access log to represent our “big data”. We’ll learn how to write a MapReduce job to ingest the file with Hadoop and index it into Elasticsearch.
Prometheus is the cornerstone of many monitoring solutions, and sooner or later, prometheus federation will appear on your radar. A well monitored application with flexible logging frameworks can pay enormous dividends over a long period of sustained growth. However, once you begin to scale your prometheus stack, it becomes difficult to keep up with your application’s demands. Prometheus is an extremely popular choice when it comes down to collecting and querying real-time metrics.
Modern day Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tooling enterprise security technology combine systems together for a comprehensive view of IT security. This can be tricky, so we’ve put together a simple SIEM tutorial to help you understand what a great SIEM provider will do for you. A SIEM’s responsibility is to collect, store, analyze, investigate and report on log and other data for incident response, forensics and regulatory compliance purposes.
Availability and quality are the biggest differentiators when people opt for a service or product today. You should be aware of the impact of your customers alerting you to your own problems, as well as how to stop this from becoming the norm. To make sure you don’t become an organization known for its bugs, understanding the organizational changes required to deliver a stable service is key.
This post will help you write effective Snort Rules to materially improve your security posture. We’ll begin with a breakdown of how a Rule is constructed and then explore best practices with examples in order to capture as many malicious activities as possible while using as few rules as possible. Snort is an open-source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) that provides real-time packet analysis and is part of the Coralogix STA solution.
Surveys show that developers spend roughly 25% of their time troubleshooting issues, amounting to over one working day per week! Let’s examine the solutions that will guide your developers to the log insights they need to efficiently troubleshoot issues.
The latest Elasticsearch release version was made available on September 24, 2020 and contains several bug fixes and new features from the previous minor version released this past August. This article highlights some of the crucial bug fixes and enhancements made, discusses issues common to upgrading to this new minor version and introduces some of the new features released with 7.9 and its subsequent patches. A complete list of release notes can be found on the elastic website.
