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Log Management Walk thru | Log Management Software Overview

Motadata collects, indexes, monitors and analyses any kind of log data. The log data contains a categorical record of all activity and behavior that affects your company and keeps a real-time check on ongoing activities across your IT infrastructure. In case anomaly is detected, one can gather relevant log data quickly in case of a security breach.

UserCentric: Redefining online recruiting for doctors and nurses

How do you match health care practitioners to the right job? When The Postgraduate Medical Council of Victoria (PMCV) had to recruit doctors and nurses for the healthcare match system it administers, they needed an efficient solution that would take into account a high number of complex variables while remaining agile and, most importantly, accurate. At UserCentric, we devised a solution that gives PMCV administrators control over the entire recruiting experience.

Sumo Logic and Amazon Web Services Continues to Help Businesses Thrive in the Cloud Era

For nearly 10 years, AWS and Sumo Logic have been the perfect pairing for businesses going through their digital transformation journey. AWS provides the best technology to help companies with their digital transformation, while Sumo Logic provides continuous intelligence and insights to monitor, run and secure those applications on AWS.

What Is MTBF? Mean Time Between Failures Explained in Detail

Time for another installment in the series where we explain in detail yet another important metric for tech organizations. After covering MTTD and MTTF, today we answer the question, “What is MTBF?” As the post title makes clear, MTBF stands for “Mean time between failures.” The acronym refers—like the others that came before it—to an important DevOps KPI. But what actually is it? What is it good for? How do I implement it?

Elastic Stack Features (formerly X-Pack) Alternatives: Free, Open Source, Commercial and Cloud Services Comparison

Elastic Stack Features (formerly X-Pack) is an Elastic Stack extension that bundles security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, and graph capabilities. One could use either all or specific components. People love Splunk. But not its price. So people are always on a lookout for a good Splunk alternative. Many of those people migrated from Splunk to ELK Stack or Hosted ELK Stack solutions like Logsene.

Unleashing a Better Open Source: Introducing Logz.io Cloud Observability Platform

Today, I am proud to announce the release of Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring, a Grafana-based monitoring solution that enables engineers to speed up detection and reduce time to resolution. This new offering extends our Log Management and Cloud Security (Cloud SIEM) products, which together form Logz.io’s new Cloud Observability Platform.

SOCtails Episode 2 - Automate your Security Operations

Kevin has the “alert fatigue”. He’s overwhelmed by too many security alerts, and he doesn’t have the resources or the time to investigate and respond to all of them. Jeff explains how automation from Splunk Phantom can help. And now, with Phantom on Splunk Mobile, you can automate security operations directly from your mobile phone.

External collection for Elastic Stack Monitoring is now available via Metricbeat

We are pleased to announce the general availability of external collection for Elastic Stack Monitoring. With this announcement comes the ability to monitor Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, APM server, and Beats all via Metricbeat modules. Using external collection, users now have the capability to collect and send monitoring data for their Elastic Stack without having to depend on the health of the monitored services.