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Elastic: Getting started with alerting for the Elastic Stack

Join product experts as they walkthrough how to start using your Elasticsearch data to power real-time notifications. Learn how to take data related to logs, APM, SIEM, etc., and set custom logic to make sure you know the second something in your system changes. Get tips for integrating alerts into critical systems beyond your inbox to maximize escalations and resolutions.

VirtualMetric: [Webinar] Cloud-Native Applications on VMware & Kubernetes

Today, enterprises are driving digital transformation by modernizing their applications to leverage the full potential of cloud-native applications. This opens endless opportunities to boost efficiency and drive business growth. However, the adoption of cloud-native applications can bring your team significant challenges. In this webinar, Yusuf Ozturk will host Lino Telera, who will walk you through Cloud-Native Applications on VMware & Kubernetes. You will learn about Kubernetes, the ways to deploy it, get CI/CD Pipeline example and even see a Live Demo.

Key metrics for monitoring AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate provides a way to use AWS container orchestration services—Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)—without needing to provision and maintain the infrastructure that runs your containers. Fargate is similar to serverless container platforms from Google (Cloud Run) and Microsoft (AKS virtual nodes).

How to collect metrics and logs from AWS Fargate workloads

In Part 1 of this series, we showed you the key metrics you can monitor to understand the health of your Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS clusters running on AWS Fargate. In this post, we’ll show you how you can: You can use Amazon CloudWatch and related AWS services to gain visibility into your ECS clusters and the Fargate infrastructure that runs them.

AWS Fargate monitoring with Datadog

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the important metrics to monitor when you’re running ECS or EKS on AWS Fargate. In Part 2 we showed you how to use Amazon CloudWatch and other tools to collect those metrics plus logs from your application containers. Fargate’s serverless container platform helps users deploy and manage ECS and EKS applications, but the dynamic nature of containers makes them challenging to monitor.

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Microsoft Teams Optimization for a Remote Workforce

Microsoft Teams is everywhere. Not surprisingly, during the pandemic, the number of daily active users for Teams increased to 75 million in 2020. More and more people are WFH and companies are becoming virtual. Personal meetings are fading now, and Teams poises to become the next best collaboration tool. According to a Riverbed study, 64% of US employees are now working from home because of the Covid pandemic. In turn, Microsoft Teams optimization has become a critical topic for Operations and Network personnel.

Announcing AppSignal for Ruby Gem 3.0!

We’re very happy to present you with version 3.0 of AppSignal for Ruby - a new major release for the Ruby gem. 🎉 We have changed the way we instrument apps and gems to provide better compatibility with other instrumentation gems. Support for Ruby version 1.9 has been removed and deprecated classes, modules, methods, and instrumentations have also been removed. Read our upgrade guide! In the rest of the post, we’ll explain what the new version of our gem brings to you and your apps.

How To Prepare Your Business For High-Frequency Change

"The future-ready enterprise can only be understood as an ecosystem of interdependent components." In our latest webinar, Applied Futurist Tom Cheesewright and Console Connect’s Neil Templeton dug deeper into the findings of our ‘Building Tomorrow’s Interconnected Enterprise’ report, and highlighted how rapid technological change is disrupting traditional business models.