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AWS Step Functions Use Cases

As you probably already know, Step Functions is a serverless Workflow Service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). There’s a lot to discuss about this service, and you’ll find plenty of vital information in our AWS Step Functions: The Ultimate Guide as well as in our series of articles that’ll dive deep into various aspects regarding this AWS service.

Predictive Analytics Meets IT Operations

Using data to predict and prevent IT outages and issues is a growing best practice—especially as advances in monitoring software have made it easier to deliver analytics in a timely manner. IT predictive analytics, once known as IT operations analytics (ITOA), is still nascent in many organizations, but it’s far more streamlined than it used to be when one needed to export data sets to specialized analytics tools such as Tableau or Microsoft PowerBI.

3 Key Trends From the 2020 Network Vendor Diversity Report

In the inaugural Network Vendor Diversity report, Auvik discovered high diversity in the network devices IT teams and MSPs were managing. In 2019, the data showed complexity continuing to rise as all categories became increasingly fragmented. In the 2020 edition, we look at the same four categories of managed network devices—access points, switches, routers, and firewalls—deployed across a sample of 30,000 networks, and compared the data to both 2018 and 2019.

Full VPC traffic visibility with AWS Network Firewall and Sumo Logic

We’re happy to partner with AWS on their launch of AWS Network Firewall by providing a cloud-native integration that gives customers real-time visibility into network traffic and automated correlated events surfaced by AWS. Too often, virtual private cloud (VPC) traffic is a black box leaving many security operations teams unable to connect potential threats to their broader infrastructure.

Slack's Latest Outage - How Did Your IT Team Respond?

Monday, long regarded as the worst day of the week, made good on its reputation for several thousand Slack users a few weeks ago. What started as an initial server problem at Slack during the wee hours of October 5th, devolved into a performance outage that impacted users for more than six hours.

Announcing LogDNA Agent v2.2 Beta

We’re excited to announce the public beta release of our latest Agent v2, which includes two major feature improvements for our Kubernetes® customers. First, Agent v2.2 now supports Kubernetes event logs that enable more seamless Kubernetes deployment troubleshooting. In addition, we now support running Agent v2 as a non-root user, making Agent v2 the most secure Kubernetes agent on the market.

The Ultimate Guide to Web Hosting for SEO

If you're looking to start a website, the first thing you'll need to do is choose a web hosting service. But all web hosts are not created equal, and the abundance of choice often paralyzes newcomers to the online space. How do you know which hosting service to choose? This article will explore the relationship between web hosting and search engine optimization (SEO) and how you can choose the most SEO-friendly host.

Percepio DevAlert - IoT Device Monitoring and Diagnostics (very short summary)

People often have problems with IoT devices due to software issues, and the developers are largely unaware. What if IoT device developers could be notified about real-world issues in IoT devices automatically and get detailed diagnostics on the very first occurrence? This is provided by Percepio DevAlert, a novel cloud service that gives real-world feedback about issues in the device software, that allows for rapid continuous improvement and for embracing DevOps in IoT device development. Learn from real-world usage and make a great product that beats the competition.

Achieve Better Observability into AWS Services with the AWS CloudWatch Monitoring Template

Amazon CloudWatch — Amazon’s built-in infrastructure monitoring tool — monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time. Here’s what you can do with this tool and how to access AWS CloudWatch monitoring dashboards.

Get The Most Out of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring and Splunk ITSI

SignalFx was founded in 2013 to enable customers to gather and monitor key information for both their application code and infrastructure. The efficient metrics storage technology enables both high cardinality of metrics as well as the no-sample method of gathering every APM trace. This combination of efficiency and standardization is exposed through the SignalFlow language to allow access and manipulation of the vast amount of metric data.