premium The future of APM is open
Of the many programming fads and trends that have come and gone in the past 20 or so years, application performance management is not one of them. It’s here to stay, though perhaps not in its current definition or even its current use. Open-source time series database provider InfluxData’s senior manager Daniela Pontes explained that … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Thanos
Thanos is a set of components that can be configured to provide unlimited storage capacity. Thanos can sit seamlessly on top of Prometheus deployments. According to the team behind the project, Thanos leverages Prometheus 2.0’s storage format to create efficient and scalable storage. “At a certain cluster scale, problems arise that go beyond the capabilities … continue reading
Report: AIOps moves beyond automation to provide smarter root cause analysis
AIOps is moving beyond just automating repetitive tasks to using AI to analyze and determine the root cause of incidents, according to a recently released report. The report revealed 45 percent of respondents are using AIOps to help with root cause analysis and to predict future problems. The newly created AIOps Exchange conducted the report … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow’s AWS integration, Elastic SIEM, and SysAid’s Automate Joe
ServiceNow has announced that it has added two new integrations with AWS Security Hub. Now, AWS customers will be able to aggregate data within Security Hub, and then have workflows automatically launch in ServiceNow. AWS customers will also be able to use ServiceNow to coordinate their incident response efforts. “Using built-in workflows, ServiceNow routes incidents … continue reading
Humio: Index-free logging is the way forward
Log management may never go away, but the way it is done may change. While indexes have long been the backbone of most log management solutions, Kresten Krab Thorup, CTO and co-founder of Humio, explains that’s not the only way to manage log data. According to Krab Thorup, indexing has been an accepted approach for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: NeuVector extends AWS integrations, Google Cloud announces Workload Identity, and LogicMonitor introduces Anomaly Detection
Container security company NeuVector has extended its security offerings with AWS Cloud. New AWS Cloud integrations include AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (AWS EKS), AWS ECS, and AWS App Mesh. NeuVector also announced a number of new features, such as Kubernetes ConfigMaps, process and file system blocking, process history recording, multi-layer image scanning, and … continue reading
CNCF TOC approves the creation of security and storage Special Interest Groups
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is adding security and storage to its list of Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The groups are designed to set up focus areas for experts and contributors. Earlier this year, the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to approve the creation of SIGs. Currently there are several SIGs being worked … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Platform9’s Kubernetes Managed Apps, Kontena Pharos 2.4, and ARM Data Center Software’s new network analytics capabilities
Platform9 has announced the release of Kubernetes Managed Apps. According to Platform9, this offering extends Platform9’s managed Kubernetes service and SLA guarantee to services and tools including monitoring, logging, and database services. The first set of fully-managed applications that Platform9 will be releasing are Managed Prometheus, Managed EFK, and Managed MySQL. It will continue adding … continue reading
IT disaster recovery planning can no longer be ignored
Gartner claims that the average cost of network downtime is $5,600 per minute, which is $336,000 per hour. In order to prevent costly downtime, organizations should have a disaster recovery (DR) plan in place that lays out what to do in the event of outages or attacks. “When business applications and their underlying data are … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kubernetes Horror Stories
Many organizations are trying to foster a culture of accountability of learning, rather than of blame. This means encouraging people to take accountability for their mistakes and learn from them, while at the same time not making people feel bad for making those mistakes. “The thinking behind assigning blame is that identifying the offender and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Canonical supports Kubernetes 1.15, GitLab 12.0, and Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform
Canonical has announced full support for Kubernetes 1.15, which was released yesterday, using kubeadm deployments, Charmed Kubernetes, and Microk8s. New features included in Kubernetes 1.15 are quotas for ephemeral storage, extended data sources for persistent volume claims, dynamic persistent volume resizing, and more. “Kubernetes 1.15 includes exciting new enhancements in application, custom resource, storage, and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Foundation to form around osquery, Datical supports AWS and Postgres, and Cloudflare launches free Ethereum gateway
The Linux Foundation has revealed plans to form a new foundation that will support osquery, a project that provides visibility into endpoints. The new foundation will be devoted to growing and maintaining a neutral community around the project. According to the Linux Foundation, developers from Dactiv, Facebook, Google, Kolide, Trail of Bits, and Uptycs, among … continue reading
