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Apache Log4j, an open-source logging software used in everything from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, has a severe security vulnerability that has security teams all over the world working frantically to correct it. The internet has been on high alert as hackers increase their efforts to target vulnerable systems, owing to its broad use.

Bugsnag is a stability error monitoring solution which captures unhandled exceptions, diagnostic data, and version information in browser, mobile and server-side applications via open source SDKs for 50+ software platforms. By default, Bugsnag libraries capture all crashes (handled exceptions are optional), version numbers, and session information to help engineering teams proactively surface issues and save time fixing bugs.

“Have you tried shutting it off and turning it back on?” While AIOps won’t likely remove this query from our vocabulary any time soon, technology is certainly here to take on a bulk of the heavy lifting. For all-sized companies, service calls are still going to continue to pour in. And, there’s no sign of any of the world’s CompTIA certs going to waste in the near future. Still, thanks to AIOps, many jobs within the world of IT will become more streamlined.

In today’s lightning fast digital age, I&O leaders across the globe are finding themselves under increasing pressure to find new and innovative ways for improving efficiency, optimizing costs and delivering fast, quantifiable and sustainable value. In order to achieve these goals, these leaders must not only be willing to adopt cutting-edge technologies, but be strategic about what tools in particular they choose to pursue and how they should prioritize them in terms of potential ROI.

Amazon CloudWatch has recently launched Metrics Insights (Preview) — a fast, flexible, SQL-based query engine that enables you to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real-time. With Metrics Insights, you can easily query and analyze your metrics to gain better visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure and large scale applications.