Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

It’s that time of year again. If you work in IT, you might be more excited about the upcoming AWS re: Invent show than attending holiday dinners and parties. The prognosticators are out in full force, foreshadowing what the cloud leader will unveil. The OpsRamp team has a few of our own predictions, as we head to Las Vegas. By the way – did you know that OpsRamp has integrations with AWS for monitoring and management??

Running a successful business these days goes along with maintaining a strong website. For this reason, companies invest loads of money into search engine optimization. They hire SEO agencies and SEO consultants to make their site rank high and thus boost their sales.

O365beat is an exceptionally useful open-source log shipping tool created by counteractive. With a few simple tweaks, it can be used to fetch Office 365 audit logs from the Office 365 Management Activity API and forward them to Graylog. The best part of this tool is that it leverages all the flexibility and power of the beats platforms such as libbeat.

Microsoft 365 including Office 365 has been suffering repeated outages over the past few days. Between Tuesday November 19th and Thursday November 21 2019 (so far), there have been repeated outages, timeouts and problems with SharePoint, OneDrive and various parts of Azure AD (AAD). Exoprise customers, of course, have known about these Microsoft 365 outages well in advance of getting notifications from Microsoft.

With the growing complexity and velocity of security threats in dynamic, cloud-native environments, it’s more important than ever for security teams to have the same visibility into their infrastructure, network, and applications that developers and operations do. Conversely, as developers and operations become responsible for securing their services, they need their monitoring platform to help surface possible threats.

"Who doesn't love monitoring?" said no one ever. Well, no one but me. Seriously. I love monitoring, but oftentimes I felt like I was the only one. After 23 years at Purdue University I decided that it was time to change things up, try something new, and start looking to see if monitoring could be fun, interesting, and actually creative for someone other than myself. Surprisingly for me, SquaredUp was also interested in the same thing!

This year we introduced the Sentry Integration Platform, which allows 3rd-party developers to build integrations that connect Sentry with their software. More recently we launched Internal Integrations, which lets developers combine Sentry with their internal tools to support their own custom workflows.

This blog post is a writeup of the presentation Bartek Plotka and I gave at PromCon 2019. Cortex is a horizontally scalable, clustered Prometheus implementation aimed at giving users a global view of all their Prometheus metrics in one place, and providing long term storage for those metrics. Thanos is newer project aimed at solving the same challenges. In this blog post, we compare these two projects and see how it is possible to have two completely different approaches to the same problems.