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Elastic 8.14: GA of Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL) for simplified analysis
Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 8.14.
How we use Grafana Alloy clustering to scrape nearly 20M Prometheus metrics
If you are interested in running your own Grafana Alloy cluster for high availability or horizontal scalability, then you’re in the right place. That’s because we’ve already done it with our own agentless exporters system, which allows you to scrape data from providers such as Amazon CloudWatch, without running any applications on your own infrastructure.
Deadman Alerts with Grafana and InfluxDB Cloud 3.0
Flagging failures or inactivity in your monitoring system are crucial for maintaining operational reliability. This blog will guide you through setting up deadman alerts using Grafana and InfluxDB Cloud, tools that help you detect issues before they become critical. We’llintegrating Grafana’s visualization capabilities with InfluxDB Cloud’s data management features to create a robust monitoring system.
Classful and Classless Addressing Explained
If you’ve ever been in charge of IP address assignment, you’ve come across the terms classful and classless addressing. If you haven’t, the main difference between classful and classless addressing is in the subnet length: classful addressing uses fixed-length subnet masks, but classless uses variable length subnet masks (VLSM).
Network Basics: What Is Link Aggregation & How Does It Work?
Link aggregation is a way of bundling a bunch of individual (Ethernet) links together so they act as a single logical link. A fundamental for effective switch management, if you have a switch with a whole lot of Gigabit Ethernet ports, you can connect all of them to another device that also has a bunch of ports and balance the traffic among these links to improve performance.
Demo: Kentik Network Observability for Hybrid Clouds
In this video, we demonstrate how Kentik provides comprehensive network observability for hybrid cloud environments, encompassing both on-premises and public cloud resources. We start with the Kentik map, showcasing active on-prem sites and cloud environments, then dive into specific examples of how to view and analyze traffic and connectivity. The demo covers how Kentik collects network telemetry from various sources, including AWS VPC flow logs, Azure NSG flow logs, and SNMP, to provide detailed insights into network performance.
Anodot vs. Yotascale: Which FinOps Provider Should MSPs Trust?
MSPs can’t afford to use a Cloud Management Solution (CMS) that doesn’t follow their FinOps standards. Even with useful features, if a CMS hasn’t seen significant upgrades since its launch, it’s likely outdated and not meeting industry standards. If you can’t count on a CSM for the best FinOps recommendations, can you call them reliable partners? That’s just one of the major differentiators between us (Anodot) and Yotascale.
Blackpoint Cyber & ChaosSearch | Customer Story
The leader in cybersecurity, Blackpoint Cyber, has teamed up with ChaosSearch, to create a next-generation data platform for log analytics for observability & security. We look forward to working with the Blackpoint team on tackling the rising costs & pain of ELK, while significantly increasing data retention, building a future-proof data platform for the increasingly challenging cybersecurity environment & AI-driven world.
Journeying to Autonomic IT in the Face of IT Complexity: Challenges and Solutions for IT Leaders
Modern IT infrastructures are more than just a support system; they are the beating heart of business innovation and success. However, these environments are incredibly complex, which comes with information silos and a lack of visibility, posing a significant barrier to Autonomic IT. One of the main factors contributing to IT operations’ reaching this point of complexity is the growing use of cloud services.