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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.
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.
Elastic: Life after Google Search Appliance: A Better Way to Crawl and Search with Elastic Site Search
As you may already know, Google Search Appliance (GSA) will be reaching its end of life in 2019. If you're still not sure where to look or how to evaluate your options for finding a GSA replacement for your website search, join Peter Kim and Tarik Bennett, Solution Architects at Elastic, for a live webinar on Nov 7 to learn how to seamlessly transition off of GSA and enhance your existing search strategy with Elastic Site Search.
Elastic: Using Elasticsearch, Beats and Elastic APM to monitor your OpenShift Data
OpenShift, as per openshift.com, enables developers to "build, deploy and manage your container-based applications consistently across cloud and on-premise infrastructure." But how will you know if they are performant, stable, or even working at all?
Elastic: Deploying Elasticsearch & Kibana in Google Cloud
Elastic's Elasticsearch Service recently received a major upgrade, and launched a slew of new features that enable more use cases and bigger workloads across logging, security, and application data.
Process & Netstat Monitoring with EventSentry
Put netstat on steroids and reduce your attack surface by revealing all processes on your network that are listening for incoming TCP connections. EventSentry can also alert when a new process is listening for incoming connections, or when critical processes are not running.
timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 67
This week we highlight Grafana project contributors from Hacktoberfest, share an article we published earlier this week on monitoring devices in your home with Prometheus and Grafana, how SoftwareMill manages their dashboards across environments and more.
A Java troubleshooting guide: network, memory leaks and threads
While the term ‘Java troubleshooting’ can apply to many, many scenarios, this post focuses on three particular long-standing Java production scenarios: a denial of service to a Java service endpoint, a memory leak, and troubleshooting a thread deadlock or race condition. Follow along as we use Java inside Docker containers to facilitate quick testing and show you how to use open source sysdig to quickly diagnose each troubleshooting scenario.
Using JFrog Artifactory as Docker Image Repository
This article is a continuation of Deploying JFrog Artifactory with Rancher. In this chapter we'll demonstrate how to use JFrog Artifactory as a private repository for your own Docker images.
Log Monitoring vs Log Analysis: What's the Difference?
What is log monitoring and log analysis? Both are crucial parts of log management and related in many capacities, but by definition, the two actually have different core meanings.