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How LineMetrics Uses InfluxDB to Launch Its IoT Monitoring Platform

“What would it be like to have an asset monitoring solution that can be installed within minutes and is independent of all existing IT systems, without endangering existing processes?” LineMetrics was founded in 2012 in Haag, Austria, in response to questions just like this one. LineMetrics developed a complete real-time asset monitoring solution delivered through its end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) platform.

Approaching Kubernetes Security - Detecting Kubernetes Scan with Splunk

The Kubernetes framework has become the leading orchestration platform. Originally developed by Google, Kubernetes is a "platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts" * . The kubernetes platform is used in all Cloud platform provider vendors as a tool that allows orchestration, automation and provision of applications and specific needs computing clusters and services.

Rancher: Kubernetes Master Class: Hands-On with K3s Support in Rancher

About the Event K3s, the lightweight- certified Kubernetes distribution created by Rancher Labs, has become a popular choise for IoT and edge computing. But Rancher users have been asking for tighter integration between Rancher Server and K3s. With Rancher 2.4, new Rancher HA installations can be installed on K3s clusters with external SQL databases. This setup simplifies cluster administration with no need to operate etcd. Management of the database can be offloaded to hosted solutions like RDS running MySQL.

Rancher: Kubernetes Master Class: Gitops in a Hybrid Cloud Multi-cluster Kubernetes Setup

How do you make sure your clusters are up to date and running the right version of your releases and policies? Doing this by hand can be very hard and time consuming. GitOps helps to solve this issue by allowing you to operationalize your Git repos and ensure that what you have in Git is what is being deployed to your clusters regardless of where they are.

Elastic: Introduction to logging and observability with the ELK Stack

In this webinar we'll help you plot a course for your observability journey. We'll go over the basics, show you how to get started using the Elastic Stack for your logs, metrics, and application trace data, and show you how log analytics and observability with the Elastic Stack can benefit you and your business. Join us to see how these three pillars of observability can help you get to the bottom of issues faster and reduce your MTTD/R.

ManageEngine: OIG's Office 365 audit checklist and how to prepare for it

With the rise of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) is slowly turning intolerant towards the agencies that are not following the security policies set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Introducing template variable saved views for dashboards

Datadog dashboards provide immediate visibility and insight into your environments. Setting template variables enables you to filter your dashboard graphs on the fly to visualize specific sets of tagged objects. Now, with saved views, you can save sets of frequently used template variables in order to easily find the data you most care about with just a few clicks.

SQL Server, Part 3: Adopting the principle of least privilege

In the previous blog in this series, we discussed authentication and authorization mechanisms, and how configuring them properly can help secure your databases. In this blog, we’ll talk about how data breaches can be prevented by implementing the principle of least privilege (POLP). According to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report, insiders account for 76 percent of all compromised database records.

Grafana 7.0 sneak peek: Inspect drawer lets you get raw data and download as CSV

Grafana v7.0 is coming soon! Here’s another sneak peek of one of its features: the inspect drawer. The inspect drawer is a feature that every panel will support, including internal as well as external community plugins. In this new drawer, you will be able to view the raw data in a table format, apply some predefined transformations, and download as CSV. “Download as CSV” previously only existed as a custom feature for the Graph & Table panel.