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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.
Splunk: Learn Ways to Stay Ahead of Advanced and Insider Threats
Let's face it - when it comes to advanced threats, security operations teams have no pre-defined indicators to guide them on "what to look for," leaving them vulnerable to attack. Advanced threats are designed to compromise one or more systems, and establish persistence and communication channels to direct activities to accomplish its goals. Adversaries use multiple attack vectors which are difficult to discover, remove, and attribute.
Elastic: Improving Search Relevance at Scale with Elastic App Search
Companies generate a lot of data, but often times, they don't even realize how much of that information is inaccessible to the people who could use it. With project-specific communication, departmental disconnects, and siloed business units, so much valuable data goes unshared - data that could be used to achieve objectives, grow the business, or just improve general operations.
Elastic: How to get expanded insight into your website's performance with Elastic APM
Today's websites are more than just a bunch of images and static HTML files. They have many components: personalized content, analytics, and third-party services. Join us as we go through a real-world example of using Elastic APM to perform root cause analysis and troubleshooting for our website, https://elastic.co.
Stackery
Building complex applications with serverless can be daunting. Stackery allows you to build out complete applications in AWS Lambda quickly. Stackery takes the heavy lifting out of integrating existing cloud architecture with serverless.
January Launch Notes: Announcing APM .NET Core support and more
Raygun’s Launch Notes are your regular roundup of all the improvements we made to Raygun last month—from major features to performance updates.
Search Relevance - Solr & Elasticsearch Similarities
Lucene has a lot of options for configuring similarity. By extension, Solr and Elasticsearch have the same options. Similarity makes the base of your relevancy score: how similar is this document (actually, this field in this document) to the query? I’m saying the base of the score because, on top of this score, you can apply per-field boosts, function scoring (e.g. boost more recent documents) and re-ranking (e.g. Learning to Rank).
Introducing Jira Software 8.0: the next chapter of Jira for enterprise teams
We’re constantly amazed by what our customers are able to do with Jira Software. Whether it’s planning a Mars landing, building a cochlear implant, or modernizing the way thousands of people work at a single company — the ways in which people use the Jira platform are multiplying by the day.
Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm: Comparison of Two Container Orchestration Tools
With the rise of the containerization technology and increased attention from enterprises and technologists in general, more and more containerized applications have been deployed to the cloud. Moreover, research conducted by 451 Research predicts that the application container market will grow dramatically through 2020, which will continue to expand the number of containerized applications being deployed to the cloud.
Runc CVE-2019-5736
Today CVE-2019-5736 was announced which impacts all known versions of runc. Runc is the underlying component that creates containers in Docker, Kubernetes, and many other container systems. The full details of this vulnerability are available in the Openwall oss-security mailing. Due to the severity of this issue, exploits will not be published for another week, giving people time to patch.
Tracking insider threats with AI
If you thought masked hackers in dark rooms spreading malware were your only security concern, think again. In its Insider Threat Report for 2018, Crowd Research Partners brought to light that almost 90 percent of organizations find themselves vulnerable to insider threats. What’s worse is that 50 percent of these organizations experienced an insider attack in 2018.