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6 Critical Requirements for Effective Application Infrastructure Monitoring

The cloud gets all the press today, and while organizations are moving more and more of their applications and associated infrastructure into the cloud, there is still a lot of “down below” on-premises. A recent cloud computing survey from IDG shows that a clear majority of companies plan to use cloud services for over half of their infrastructure and applications.

DevOps and the Cloud: 5 Ways DevOps And the Cloud Will Come Together in 2020

More and more companies are beginning to turn to DevOps and the cloud as a way to improve their software teams. Whilst it used to be that development and operations were seen as separate, that view has now changed. Linking the two leads to better communication, faster development times, and the ability to stay on top of things.

No More False Alerts at Night

Do you know this situation? You are on-call and in the middle of the night you get a phone call. Loud enough to wake you up. Loud enough to wake your wife up, as well. You stand up and check your emails to see what the problem is. OK, you got it. Then you log on to the console of your monitoring tool and – green. Green? False alert? Why did you get the call then? After double-checking, still a bit sleepy, you recognize that the problem has been recovered automatically.

Elastic: Infrastructure metrics and observability with the Elastic Stack

Ready to get started on your observability journey? We'll go over the basics of using the Elastic Stack for your infrastructure and system metrics. We'll also show how combining your infrastructure metrics with your logs and application traces can benefit you and your business. Join us to see how Elastic Observability can help you get to the bottom of issues faster and reduce your MTTD/R.

Elastic: Using the Elastic Stack in Connected Car Technology Stacks

The Elastic Stack is a natural fit in today's modern automotive industry. During this virtual session, we'll look at the industry's main workloads, which manufacturers are using the Elastic Stack, the requirements they have, and why they chose Elastic. We'll discuss a high-level architecture similar to the connected car solutions currently in place and how it's deployed today. Finally, we'll show examples of use cases in today's connected car production.

HAProxy: Kubernetes Ingress: Routing and Load-Balancing HTTP(s) traffic

Kubernetes converts a collection of servers into an interconnected cluster over which you can host any of your Docker container workloads. Maybe this trait of interconnectedness is why its predecessor was called Borg, named after the alien beings from the StarTrek fictional universe that thought with a single hive-mind!

OpsRamp: Hiring and Managing IT Staff During a Global Crisis

Acquiring, retaining and optimizing IT talent has never been easy, but in 2020, there's a whole new set of considerations for IT leaders and managers. Needs and priorities have shifted and that means new tactics for productivity, decision-making, and hiring. In this session, we will explore: Martha Heller, CEO of Heller Search Associates and an expert on IT leadership and workforce, leads this discussion.

Elastic: Introducing Elastic Security: Unified protection for everyone

Join this Elastic webinar in collaboration with SANS institute and learn how the latest security capabilities in the Elastic Stack enable interactive exploration, incident management and automated analysis, as well as how you can use unsupervised machine learning to reduce false positives and spot anomalies all at the speed and scale your security practitioners need to defend your organisation. Additionally, we'll be talking about the free endpoint security capabilities of Elastic Security and will introduce Elastics Event Query Language (EQL).

Elastic: An introduction to Elastic APM in the shift to cloud native

With cloud-native architectures and hundreds - or thousands - of microservices shaping the user experience, application performance monitoring (APM) is increasingly pivotal to the success of modern organizations. Get a rundown of the latest features and see Elastic APM in action with a demo from the experts. Watch our webinar and you will: Want to try it for yourself? Take some of these features for a spin with a free trial of our Elasticsearch Service.