Google Cloud Platform is growing quickly, providing solutions for everything from cloud storage to managed Kubernetes to serverless computing. Since Google App Engine launched in 2008, Google’s suite of serverless products has expanded to help enterprises accelerate application development without having to manage or scale their own infrastructure.
Protecting your applications from abuse of functionality requires understanding which application features and workflows may be misused as well as the ability to quickly identify potential threats to your services. This visibility is particularly critical in cases where an adversary finds and exploits a vulnerability—such as inadequate authentication controls—to commit fraud.
Single-page applications (SPAs) present a unique approach to building web applications. They help to increase development velocity and can present big performance wins when it comes to delivering a fast and seamless user experience. Monitoring SPAs for performance still comes with a unique set of challenges, like choosing the most impactful metrics, gaining visibility into app performance over time, and knowing what metrics you can get from the browser. The main benefit of using SPAs is that a page does not need to reload when the content on the page changes. However, this feature, and the fact the page does not reload, is what makes it hard to monitor SPA performance.
Kubernetes enables teams to deploy and manage their own services, but this can lead to gaps in visibility as different teams create systems with varying configurations and resources. Without an established method for provisioning infrastructure, keeping track of these services becomes more challenging. Implementing infrastructure as code solves this problem by optimizing the process for provisioning and updating production-ready resources.
Infrastructure monitoring was difficult enough when entire businesses ran off a few bare metal servers in a dusty, forgotten closet. Other IT infrastructure monitoring tools fell short, unable to provide complete and granular-enough metrics in real time, even when we were only dealing with a handful of systems responsible for running every part of the application stack.
Measuring and offsetting your carbon footprint may seem like a daunting task. In this post, we’ll explain how to easily and quickly perform the calculations in a DIY style. Let’s go!
In this article, we are going to explore the process of ingesting logs into your data lake, and the value of importing your firewall logs into Coralogix. To understand the value of the firewall logs, we must first understand what data is being exported. A typical layer 3 firewall will export the source IP address, destination IP address, ports and the action for example allow or deny. A layer 7 firewall will add more metadata to the logs including application, user, location, and more.