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Partner With Splunk on Our Data-To-Everything Journey

As we approach the end of an unpredictable year, it’s a good time to reflect on the ways data has made a positive impact. Data is helping stop human trafficking with Global Emancipation Network, connected relief resources during crises with NetHope, and saved lives during wildfires with Zonehaven. And with our powerful partner ecosystem, and the arrival of the Data Age, there is so much more we can accomplish together.

Rancher: Kubernetes Master Class: Declarative Security with Rancher, KubeLinter, and StackRox feat. StackRox

As companies adopt containers and Kubernetes to accelerate application development, they're wrestling with securing this new attack surface. Fortunately, the declarative, immutable nature of Kubernetes environments provides inherent security opportunities, and Kubernetes itself offers a broad set of native controls. However, these protections are not enabled by default, and many organizations are learning both the infrastructure aspects and the security aspects of Kubernetes in parallel.

Elastic: Operationalizing machine learning for SIEM

Unsupervised machine learning (ML) is a core capability for most security operations teams looking to implement an advanced threat detection or insider threat program. However, the deployment of ML can present adoption challenges for security teams. Unless they have in-house data scientists to develop and tune threat models and skilled threat hunters to investigate alerts and manually follow up on interpreting anomalous behaviors, teams may find themselves struggling to gain useful insights and operational value out of ML tools.

Elastic: Learn more from your logs with Elastic APM

When you're trying to troubleshoot and debug system behavior, logs only tell you one part of the story. Application performance monitoring (APM) and distributed tracing give logs much-needed context and timing information, link together the behavior of multiple components, and put logged events into a much broader context of observability. Learn how the Elastic Stack can help you enrich logs with metadata, link logs to metrics and traces, and use logs for visualizations and anomaly detection.

Remote troubleshooting made easy with Mobile Device Manager Plus

System administrators play a vital role in every organization’s IT department, and one of the key responsibilities they have is to troubleshoot employees’ devices in case of device issue or malfunction to prevent loss of productivity. With employees working from remote locations, especially now during the pandemic, troubleshooting can be challenging without the device being physically present.

Debug JavaScript in Internet Explorer 11 in 7 easy steps

This article will focus on debugging JavaScript code within Internet Explorer 11’s Developer Tools. The developer tools built into IE11 make developing and debugging code in the browser relatively straightforward. The browser’s tools boast many of the features of the other more developer-focused browsers such as Chrome and Firefox.

Node.js Logging Made Easy: A Tutorial on Just About Everything You Need to Know

Building SaaS products is hard. Making customers happy is even harder. I should know, I’ve built a start-up that failed! But, not everything is that bad. I learned a lot. Now I maintain a few open-source Node.js projects at Sematext. It’s an observability SaaS. I joined to help make the log management features as good as they can be. If you’ve never heard that term before, my co-worker wrote a great introductory explanation of what Log Management is right here.

Effective troubleshooting with Grafana Loki - query basics

Loki doesn't index your logs, and that is a very different approach than popular full-text search engines like Elasticsearch or Solr That sounds like a huge constraint. How can you do powerful searches if you don't index the log lines? After this video, you now know how to use Loki's "filter" capability for forensic troubleshooting. Happy searching!