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In March of 2022, Elastic decided to close source the most popular log management and analytics solution in the world: the ELK Stack. Millions chose ELK as their logging platform and made it the heart of their troubleshooting operations because it was open source. And suddenly, it wasn’t – leaving many looking for other options. Shortly after, AWS launched OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards as open source alternatives to Elasticsearch and Kibana, respectively.

Today we’re excited to announce the InfluxDB add-on for Ockam Orchestrator. Through the use of the add-on, customers that are using InfluxDB Cloud can use Ockam to improve their security posture by automatically granting uniquely identifiable, least privilege, time-limited credentials for any client that needs to connect to InfluxDB Cloud.

Alerting is a critical feature in monitoring and observability products. The monitoring platform continually tests systems and applications for metrics crossing thresholds, key events in logs and the other warning signs of issues. Alerting ensures that help desks, administrators and IT Ops teams know about issues, or impeding issues and handle communications and remediation rapidly.

IT spend on big data systems in 2023 is forecasted to be $222 billion (Statista.com: Information spending on data center systems worldwide from 2012 to 2023). Actual monetary cost is just one parameter: infrastructure resources, personnel, and the overall time taken to retrieve big data insights push spending even further.

Spring has sprung, and the bees have been busy. Let’s have a look at what’s new in Honeycomb at the close of March.

After a longer period without a major update, our April 2023 update has it in for it – promised!

It has now been over a year since Russian forces invaded its neighbor to the west leading to the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. Kentik’s Doug Madory reviews what has happened with internal connectivity within Ukraine over the course of the war in this analysis done for a collaboration with the Wall Street Journal. This February marked a grim milestone in the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The 5 Biggest Threats: You may have found your business is relying on mobile devices more and more. The computing power of phones and tablets can now equal that of your average desktop computer, but their portability makes them far more useful in a remote working environment. With the number of online communications options available to mobile devices, making a call on a mobile phone is almost an afterthought – but with a cloud business phone system, it is an option that is supported.

Beyond their primary function of bringing internet content closer to client servers, CDNs also play a vital role in network security. For instance, CDN helps you absorb traffic overloads from DDoS attacks by distributing traffic across many servers. However, the volume of servers under your CDNs control and their geographically distributed nature presents its own set of risks, operational and security. Choosing the best CDN monitoring tool is critical to the end-user experience.

A constant challenge for many development teams is how to include test data management in the development process. Testing with consistent, realistic and compliant datasets, and bringing the database into CI and DevOps pipelines, has been shown to catch data-related issues long before they reach customers. The result: an increase in efficiency, a reduction in costs, and an improvement in the quality of software releases, enabling value to be released to customers faster.