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Raygun is a Software Intelligence Platform that gives companies visibility into software problems. Errors, crashes and slow loading pages and scripts affecting end users are automatically detected, enabling teams to build excellent user experiences.
What's new in Sysdig - July 2021
Welcome to another monthly update on what’s new from Sysdig! Happy 4th of July to our American audience, and bonne Bastille to our French friends. It’s been heating up in the northern hemisphere, so we hope you’ve all been managing to stay cool and safe. Our team continues to work hard to bring great new features to all of our customers, automatically and for free! The big news this month is our intent to acquire Apolicy, which has everyone full of excitement.
Developer's Dilemma: When Is the Right Time to Invest in Log Management
Development cycles are complicated. If you’re on a development team, whether you’re building out a custom application, maintaining and iterating on a growing microservice, or breaking ground on a new platform for a startup, you have your hands full. Log management, though seldom celebrated outside hardcore DevOps and IT circles, is still a well-known instrument among seasoned developers. It is insight into the internal workings of your processes as they are used.
Splunk SOAR Feature Video: Custom Functions
Splunk SOAR’s custom functions allow shareable custom code across playbooks and the introduction of complex data objects into the playbook execution path. These aren’t just out-of the-box playbooks, but out-of-the-box custom blocks that save you time and effort. This allows for centralized code management and version control of custom functions providing the building blocks for scaling your automation, even to those without coding capabilities.
Splunk SOAR Feature Video: Contextual Action Launch
Splunk SOAR apps have a parameter for action inputs and outputs called "contains". These are used to enable contextual actions in the Splunk SOAR user interface. A common example is the contains type "ip". This is a powerful feature that the platform provides, as it allows the user to chain the output of one action as input to another.
Splunk SOAR Feature Video: Investigation Command Line
When you're on the Splunk SOAR investigation page, there are several ways to run actions. One of the easiest ones is to use the command line, down where you would write comments in the event. If you start off with a slash (/) you get prompting for the action you would like to choose.
Splunk SOAR Feature Video: Create a Manual Event
If you haven’t done anything on your Splunk SOAR instance yet you'll see zeros across the top in what we call the ROI summary. So how do you get started creating events in Splunk SOAR?
Splunk SOAR Feature Video: Configure Third Party Tools
To get started in Splunk SOAR, you will need to configure an asset. Assets are the security and infrastructure assets that you integrate with the Splunk SOAR platform, like firewalls and endpoint products. Splunk SOAR connects to these assets through apps. Apps extend the platform by integrating third-party security products and tools.
Splunk SOAR Feature Video: Install/Update Apps
A common task on the Splunk SOAR platform is installing a new app, or updating existing apps. Apps extend the Splunk SOAR platform by integrating third-party security products and tools. We currently offer more than 350 premade apps that are accessible right now.
Shipa and Harness - A complete CI, CD, and Ops tool
Integrated, Shipa, and Harness offer a complete offer across CI, CD, and Application Operations.
Do you really need a service mesh?
The challenges involved in deploying and managing microservices have led to the creation of the service mesh, a tool for adding observability, security, and traffic management capabilities at the application layer. While a service mesh is intended to help developers and SREs with a number of use cases related to service-to-service communication within Kubernetes clusters, a service mesh also adds operational complexity and introduces an additional control plane for security teams to manage.