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Why the 20s will be the "Data Decade" and How to Prepare

In the next decade, the world will produce an unfathomable amount of machine data — metrics, measurements, and telemetry data that is emitted from everything from servers to robots and satellites. And the pace of that data generation is increasing exponentially. I wrote in a paper published last year how this data is a virtually untapped source of extraordinary business insights — data so dense and rich it will dwarf traditional business intelligence in terms of its potential value.

Trial by Fire: Making the Mobile Workforce Work

More people than ever are working remotely, and about one-third say the coronavirus pandemic was their first chance to do so. As companies return to a new normal, they are considering how to manage workers who are not in the office, and mobile workers add a unique challenge. The term “remote worker” includes work-from-home employees and mobile workers. Most employees who work remotely do both.

Elasticsearch Performance Tuning - Index Design

You’ve created the perfect design for your indices and they are happily churning along. However, in the future, you may need to reconsider your initial design. Maybe you want to improve performance, change sharding settings, adjust for growth. Whatever the reason, Elasticsearch is flexible and allows you to change index settings to improve your Elasticsearch Performance Tuning. Let’s see how to do that!

Michael DeSa [InfluxData] | Monitoring Methodologies

The objective of this workshop will be to introduce participants to the RED and USE monitoring methodologies. We will compare and contrast the two methodologies. Care will be taken to highlight best practices associated with each methodology. The workshop will culminate in participants designing schema and using flux to create relevant visualizations of their data.

How to use Kibana effectively. Today: Detect possible frauds in your data

Kibana is quite powerful and versatile for visualizing data in Elasticsearch. The Elastic Stack can be used for a variety of use cases. One is the detection of frauds e.g. in Banking transaction like within Softbank Payment Service or bonus point accounts like within Miles and More. Other areas are insurance or tax return data.

Advanced Monitoring and Analytics: An Interview with Mission Critical Magazine

Circonus CEO Bob Moul recently spoke with Amy Al-Katib, Editor-in-Chief of Mission Critical Magazine, about how organizations can begin to implement more sophisticated infrastructure monitoring analytics like predictive analytics and maintenance. This is the second time in the past few weeks they spoke about how the sudden surge in online services brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in the state of monitoring within many organizations.