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Every organization that handles large volumes of data should implement an archiving system to separate active from inactive data, including log files. With recent changes in data laws in the EU and the growing needs for log archiving, finding a quality file storage and archiving solution is more important than ever. We will discuss the reasons for archiving data and show you how to successfully store logs and use the Archive feature in Graylog Enterprise.

Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) are IT companies that operate some portion of their customer’s security infrastructure such as firewalls, VPNs, spam / antivirus systems, and intrusion detection tools.

DevOps has been a hot topic for many years, but it's still common for organizations to feel overwhelmed by the complexity of automating their entire infrastructure and to get hung up on which tools to use. An integrated set of DevOps tools for monitoring has the power to improve visibility and productivity, achieve higher-performing systems, and establish cross-functional collaboration.

Last month we talked about the PHP monitoring landscape in 2019 and announced that Scout APM would soon be available for monitoring your Laravel applications too (as well as your Ruby, Python and Elixir apps of course!). Now that our PHP monitoring agent is ready for beta testing, we thought it would be a good idea to show you folks how easy it is to get started with it and to highlight the main features to the Laravel community.

At some point, your startup will scale to the point that you need additional help building your product, and as the CTO, it’s up to you to find, hire, and onboard new software engineers. This process is intimidating because engineering hires are critical to the success or failure of your startup. In this series, we’ll talk about Blue Matador’s approach to the hiring process as well as the insights I’ve gained as CTO. This first post will cover when and who to hire.

Before Grafana, there was Kibana 3. Kibana was revolutionary when it came out, because it allowed you to use Elasticsearch in a very new way, for log analytics and not just normal document search, and to build dashboards without writing JSON documents. It had this nice UI, which let you drag panels around. But editing panels was a little tricky; you could only edit them in this sort of fullscreen modal. Still, it was really good for its time.

If you’re a LogicMonitor customer, the platform’s Audit Logs may seem like a rudimentary means to track user actions, but they can actually be a powerful tool for troubleshooting and getting historical data within your portal. For instance, let’s say you notice that the alerting for a particular device group has been unexpectedly disabled.

We’re happy to announce the release of Logz.io Reports — an easy way to set up scheduled reporting for both operational and security use cases. Kibana dashboards provide you with a window into your environment, visualizing the different signals being tracked in a beautiful mix of graphs, charts, and maps. Often used in times of crisis and as the starting point for an investigation, dashboards can also be useful as a static reporting tool for multiple use cases.

Once an incident is detected, taking the right actions automatically and immediately is the easiest step to make a sustainable and measurable improvement to your MTTR.

The world is undergoing profound change and technology sits at its beating heart. Digital transformation offers unprecedented opportunities for CIOs to support business demands for innovation-fueled growth. In so doing, IT leaders can also cement their position as indispensable members of the executive suite.