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Squared Up: Coffee Break: Citrix Monitoring with GripMatix

You may have heard that Citrix announced EOL for multiple SCOM MPs as of June 2020. What are the alternatives? This month we are joined by Adam Kinniburgh, VP Customer Success at SquaredUp along with Merijn Overgaauw and Marc van der Veer, Citrix specialists and Product Architects at GripMatix, for a Q&A style discussion on Citrix Monitoring.

Sysdig: AWS Security 101: Securing Amazon EKS with Falco & Sysdig

Amazon's Managed Kubernetes Service (EKS) offers organizations flexibility as teams ramp up containerized applications in production. And yet, managing security risk for the workloads running on EKS is still the customer's responsibility. To make your teams as productive as possible, you need to automate and merge security and compliance into the DevOps workflow. In this webinar, we will review how the combination of AWS security controls with open-source and commercial tools from Sysdig can provide comprehensive security for your EKS workloads.

Sysdig: AWS Observability 101: Kubernetes and Prometheus Monitoring with Sysdig

The growth and adoption of Kubernetes for container orchestration and Prometheus for monitoring have made it easier to grow while monitoring your workloads. However, as you scale your AWS environments, your monitoring capability needs to keep pace. Ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, and security become more difficult without having robust tools to help provide a centralized view of all the various services and applications.

Sysdig: Best Practices to Secure Containers and Accelerate Software Delivery

With Kubernetes, you can seamlessly move containerized applications from development to production but it can be difficult to gain security and performance visibility for the service. Hear LogDNA share why it chose the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform to monitor and secure its containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

How to Use Uptime Monitoring tools to Check Website Uptime

One of the central questions we ponder in our work is: what does uptime mean in an interconnected world? You can do everything to ensure 100% reliability, yet still fail. How is this possible in an interconnected world? Shouldn’t there be enough redundancy to ensure nothing breaks if you don’t actively break it? That’s another way of saying technology is great when it works.

How to make Predictive Monitoring Valuable for your Organization

Doesn’t it sound magical to predict issues? Detecting a network outage, long before it happens. Yes! It does sound exciting. Now there are numerous network monitoring softwares out there offering this capability. To accomplish this particular goal, businesses around the world have been investing in AI powered network monitoring softwares.

An (only slightly technical) introduction to Loki, the Prometheus-inspired open source logging system

Every application creates logs. Web servers, firewalls, services on your Kubernetes clusters, public cloud services, and more. For companies, being able to collect and analyze these logs is crucial. And the growing popularity of microservices, IoT, cybersecurity, and cloud has brought an explosion of new types of log data. That’s why log management is a huge $2-billion-plus market that’s growing 14% YoY.

Morgan NPM Logger - The Beginner's Guide

In this guide, we’ll cover how you can use Morgan npm to log requests and other aspects of your web application built on Express (or any of the similarly architected frameworks around). So what can Morgan do for you? And when would you need it? As you’ll see in a second if you’re working with Express or a similar framework (such as restify) you’ll have the need to log incoming information about the requests, this framework was designed specifically for that, just keep reading.