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What's new in Sysdig - October 2020

Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! This month, our big announcement was around CloudTrail and Fargate scanning support. CloudTrail support gives Sysdig Secure the ability to ingest CloudTrail events. These get fed into the runtime security engine, where rules can be created using the Falco rules language.

Learning Git: How to Cherry Pick

What is cherry pick in Git? We have added a new intermediate Git tutorial video to our popular Learning Git with GitKraken educational series, covering the cherry pick command and related benefits. View the latest addition to our Learn Git library—Learning Git: How to Cherry Pick—to discover more about how to use the cherry pick command, for which situations it can be used most effectively in your workflow, and tips for avoiding duplicate commits.

Introduction to Performance Monitoring Metrics

The reliability and stability of your services directly depend on how well you understand the state of your infrastructure and services. A great monitoring system will allow you to understand your infrastructure better. Monitoring the performance of your system allows you to not only fix current problems but also make changes to your infrastructure to avoid them in the future.

Bringing rich and real-time infrastructure monitoring to Netdata Cloud

The Netdata Agent is well-equipped to solve monitoring and troubleshooting challenges for single nodes. We love that the Agent is so valuable to our users, but Netdata Cloud is designed for infrastructure monitoring. That’s why we’re working so hard to offer even more capabilities and help users monitor and troubleshoot infrastructures of all sizes, entirely for free!

Monitoring RabbitMQ With Prometheus and Grafana

Prometheus and Grafana are powerful monitoring solutions. Combined together, you can build insightful monitoring metrics and display analysis on a beautiful dashboard. Among many external systems and applications, you can also monitor RabbitMQ with both toolkits. To integrate RabbitMQ into your Prometheus and Grafana, you can try MetricFire that provides hosted solutions for Prometheus and Grafana.

Containers vs. VMs: Which Should You Use?

Both containers and virtual machines are virtual environments that comprise a number of computing components and are independent in nature, thereby allowing developers to scale applications in isolated runtimes. Both of these concepts aim at providing independent sets of resources to individual computing environments to ensure quick and reliable application performance.

Getting up and running with Calico on your on-prem K8s Cluster

If you are deploying Kubernetes on-premises in your datacenter, you won’t want to miss this talk and demo. The first thing you’re thinking about might not be networking, but without some knowledge of the networking decisions you’ll need to make, and what the right option is given your environment, you’re likely to get stuck or make the wrong assumptions that may limit your ability to scale or integrate with the rest of the datacenter network.