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Exoprise
We help you find and fix issues with your cloud apps fast. Exoprise is the leading solution provider for monitoring SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce.com and more.
Sematext
Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
NiCE IT Mgmt
From databases to servers, communication systems, operating systems and custom applications, NiCE provides the right application monitoring solutions and services.
Monitive
Monitive is an uptime monitoring service, where users sign up and input their website address, which we check every minute, from a random location around the world, and instantly notify them when their site is down.
EventSentry
EventSentry is an award-winning Hybrid SIEM which features real-time log, system health and network monitoring to proactively monitor networks and preemptively respond to threats.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 90+ products and free tools cover everything your IT needs, at prices you can afford.
Raygun
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 is DevOps?
What is DevOps? DevOps is a term for a cluster of concepts that has become a movement, “a cross-disciplinary practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving and operating, rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.” (Jez Humble) The definition of DevOps is not agreed upon by everyone because of the complex processes attached to the term, however, the benefits to teams are universally agreed upon.
Seven KPIs for AIOps
Leaders looking to measure the benefits of AIOps and build key performance indicators (KPIs) for both IT and business audiences should focus on key factors such as uptime, incident response, remediation time and predictive maintenance, so that potential outages affecting employees and customers can be prevented. Business KPIs connected to AIOps include employee productivity, customer satisfaction and web site metrics such as conversion rate or lead generation.
Detecting HAFNIUM Exchange Server Zero-Day Activity in Splunk
If you want just to see how to find HAFNIUM Exchange Zero-Day Activity, skip down to the “detections” sections. Otherwise, read on for a quick breakdown of what happened, how to detect it, and MITRE ATT&CK mappings.
Building a Superstar SOC with Automation and Standardization
When you have a team of security analysts that have a wide range of expertise, knowledge, and experience, it is natural to see the difference in the quality of work performed. One of the biggest challenges that security operation managers face when auditing the work performed is that some team members may execute different steps at different levels of rigor when investigating and remediating threats.
Hyperledger Besu is an Observability Pioneer
All the work presented in this blog post is open source and available as part of our Splunk Connect for Ethereum repository examples, including the instrumentation of Besu as a Docker container, the configuration of Splunk, and two applications showing how to monitor Besu syncing to the chain.
Analyze your tracing data any way you want with Sumo search query language
It’s been almost a year since I shared some thoughts about distributed tracing adoption strategies on this blog. We have discussed how different approaches between log vendors and application performance management (APM) vendors exist in the market and how important that is to allow users to analyze the data, including custom telemetry, the way they want.
The Cost of Racing Toward Success
LogDNA recently celebrated 5 years since our launch in Y Combinator and during this half-a-decade we’ve learned several lessons about balancing cost and scalability. As a founder, here are the top 3 things I wish someone had told me as we were racing towards success. The appeal of building a cloud-native application for a startup is a no brainer—it’s agile, scalable, and can be managed by a distributed team. Not to mention, it’s the cheapest way to get off the ground.
Back to Work: Webinars for Returning to the Workplace
As COVID vaccines begin to roll out, get ready to return to the workplace with ServiceNow and learn about how to bring employees back to your workplace. How to create an employee centered game plan for the safe return to workplace Workplaces are reopening.
ObservIQ: Log Management Made Simple
In this webinar, Mike Kelly, CTO and co-founder of observIQ, will discuss the issues being faced by DevOps practitioners today when trying to utilize a log management platform. Between setting up and managing the environment, deploying and managing agents, and configuring sources and visualizations, these platforms are often far too complicated and require a high level of expertise. Mike will introduce you to observIQ Cloud, the intuitive log management platform that DevOps actually wants to use.
Tigera: How to address Kubernetes security challenges for managed Kubernetes services
As an increasing number of organizations are leveraging Managed Kubernetes Services such as EKS, AKS, or GKE for application development and production environment, DevOps, SREs would like to have security and observability built into their applications. Instead of managing a platform for Kubernetes security and observability, they would like to consume it too along with managed Kubernetes services. In this process, picking the right SaaS platform to address the Kubernetes security challenges is most important.