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Exoprise
We help you find and fix issues with your cloud apps fast. Exoprise is the leading solution provider for monitoring SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce.com and more.
Sematext
Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
NiCE IT Mgmt
From databases to servers, communication systems, operating systems and custom applications, NiCE provides the right application monitoring solutions and services.
Monitive
Monitive is an uptime monitoring service, where users sign up and input their website address, which we check every minute, from a random location around the world, and instantly notify them when their site is down.
EventSentry
EventSentry is an award-winning Hybrid SIEM which features real-time log, system health and network monitoring to proactively monitor networks and preemptively respond to threats.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 90+ products and free tools cover everything your IT needs, at prices you can afford.
Raygun
Raygun is a Software Intelligence Platform that gives companies visibility into software problems. Errors, crashes and slow loading pages and scripts affecting end users are automatically detected, enabling teams to build excellent user experiences.
IPAM. What is it? The major breakthrough of Pandora FMS Release 731
Today we will take a tour of the most technical Pandora FMS. For some people, it can be a challenge. Although the IPAM extension already existed in Pandora FMS world, in release 731 this extension was improved to the point of being considered as a new extension. But what is IPAM? What is IPAM? and what is it for?…. In this article we will answer these important questions to be able to use it.
Next Time You Configure or Update Your Network Interfaces Use This Checklist
Interfaces, commonly known as ports, are a vital component of any network. Need to connect two pieces of equipment? It could be as easy as plugging in cables—but then you’re using out of the box configurations that don’t follow best practices and are inherently insecure.
Monitor Twistlock with Datadog
Twistlock is a platform for managing security and compliance within various environments, including virtual machines, containers, and serverless functions. Ensuring legal and technical security is just as valuable as preventing outages and errors, which is why Datadog is delighted to announce a new integration with Twistlock. With this integration, you can track security and compliance risks within the same platform as the metrics, traces, and logs you already collect with Datadog.
Entity Extraction for Product Searches, Sematext
A user looking for “awesome smartphone 2018” is likely really after “+review:awesome +category:smartphone +release_date:2018”. A clever use of (e)dismax might get us pretty close to where we want, but it’s not real query understanding. There are other ways, of course, like training a model that will, based on the keyword, guess which field it’s looking into.
Sysdig Secure: Overview of Policies
Review of Policies in Sysdig Secure for runtime protection in a container based environment.
Sysdig Secure: Working with Policies
Walkthrough of how policies are defined in Sysdig Secure through scoping, alerting and defined actions to be taken, based on Falco rules. Covers whitelisting/blacklisting policies by containers, processes, network traffic, file system I/O and system calls.
Sysdig Secure: Policy Events
Review of Policy Events in Sysdig Secure, showcasing our fast methodology to identify a service, host or container operating in runtime that is generating undesirable or nefarious activity defined by the events policy.
Entity Extraction for Product Searches
Entity extraction is, in the context of search, the process of figuring out which fields a query should target, as opposed to always hitting all fields. The reason we may want to involve entity extraction in search is to improve precision. For example: how do we tell that, when the user typed in Apple iPhone, the intent was to run company:Apple AND product:iPhone? And not bring back phone stickers in the shape of an apple?
The simplest prioritization tip money can buy
Every time I get into a serious discussion about prioritization with the teams I coach, there’s a moment where someone does a big exhale (the kind where your cheeks puff out) and says “Let’s face it. We’re trying to do way too much and we’re kidding ourselves if we think we can do it at high quality.” And every time, they’re right.
How to use Stackdriver monitoring export for long-term metric analysis
Our Stackdriver Monitoring tool works on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and even on-prem apps and services with partner tools like Blue Medora’s BindPlane. Monitoring keeps metrics for six weeks, because the operational value in monitoring metrics is often most important within a recent time window. For example, knowing the 99th percentile latency for your app may be useful for your DevOps team in the short term as they monitor applications on a day-to-day basis.