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Types of Log Management Tools and How to Choose the Best Solution

As any business running microservices, containerized applications, networking devices, or multiple servers knows, it’s important to get a centralized log management system that fits your company’s unique needs. The best log management solution should empower your business to gain insights, resolve production issues quickly, streamline your DevOps and IT teams, and allow you to work more efficiently.

New Free App for Active Directory

In organizations which uses a Windows server environment, the vast majority of authentication and access control processes are managed within Active Directory. As a central and critical component for managing organizational IT resources, Active Directory logs contain valuable information which must be closely monitored and analyzed.

An in-depth look at 100% Zero Downtime deployments with Terraform

At Checkly, we run our browser checks on AWS EC2 instances managed by Terraform. When shipping a new version, we don’t want to interrupt our service, so we need zero downtime deployments. Hashicorp has their own write up on zero downtime upgrades, but it only introduces the Terraform configuration without any context, workflow or other details that are needed to actually make this work in real life™.

Elastic: Optimizing Storage Efficiency in Elasticsearch

Organizations are using the Elastic Stack for a variety of use cases. Many of these use cases, such as centralized logging and security analytics, deal with indexing, storing, and analyzing large volumes of logs and metrics into Elasticsearch. At these large volumes, cluster architectures and data tiering strategies are important to ensure that your access and speed needs are balanced with the storage costs.