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Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server login audit events in Graylog

One of the most important events you should be monitoring on your network is failed and successful logon events. What comes to most people’s minds when they think of authentication auditing is OS level login events, but you should be logging all authentication events regardless of application or platform. Not only should we monitor these events across our network, but we should also normalize this data so that we can correlate events between these platforms.

A Simplified Guide to Kubernetes Monitoring

The open-source Kubernetes platform has become the de facto standard for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized services and workloads. In fact, 83% of DevOps teams are using Kubernetes to deploy containerized applications in production, taking advantage of its workload orchestration and automation capabilities to optimize the software development process and reduce web server provisioning costs.

Micro Lesson: Monitoring and Troubleshooting with AWS Observability Solution

This video introduces Sumo Logic's AWS Observability solution, which is an all-in-one approach to give visibility into the important elements of the cloud infrastructure and assist in troubleshooting complex issues. This video further describes the features of the observability solution such as pre-built dashboards, prepackaged log searches, and the out-of-the-box alerts that help in monitoring and troubleshooting.

How to create log sinks

Are you wondering how you can route your Google Cloud logs to your desired destination? Then check out this video, where we introduce you to log sinks which can be used to route logs to various supported destinations, walk you through how it works and the list of supported destinations to which logs can be routed. It covers the different use cases and scenarios, where the logs sinks can be very useful. We’ll also demonstrate how to create and configure an aggregated log sink that sends all VPC flow logs to BigQuery.

Key Value Parser Delivers Useful Information Fast

Parsers make it easier to dig deep into your data to get every byte of useful information you need to support the business. They tell Graylog how to decode the log messages that come in from a source, which is anything in your infrastructure that generates log messages (e.g., a router, switch, web firewall, security device, Linux server, windows server, an application, telephone system and so on).

Understanding Log Levels

In this video, we will discuss what log levels are, how to use them in your application, and how to monitor your logs with Sematext. We break down the intricacies of log levels, guiding you through their significance and practical implementation. Elevate your DevOps game with insights on proactive issue detection and rapid problem resolution. With a centralized logging solution like Sematext Cloud, you can enhance collaboration, minimize downtime, and boost overall system performance.

Solving Complexity Challenges with Kubernetes 360

Here at Logz.io, we realize Kubernetes is the most common infrastructure component that organizations are running on to keep their applications going. In return, we’ve made a big investment to support Kubernetes properly and give customers the tools they need to investigate and troubleshoot any issues that arise.