The competition is on for DevOps teams that are expected to rev up production on a multitude of projects, with teams and companies aiming to stay atop the global software product marketplace. The complexity of code creation and the pace of deployment has picked up in recent years, and DevOps managers are starting to face […]
Log Management: What DevOps Teams Need to Know
One of the most important shifts of this decade is the rise of interconnected data across distributed systems. This explosive growth not only sparked the need to rethink cloud and global IT strategies, but it also disrupted traditional development, DevOps and ITOps practices. These changes are pushing requirements for higher-velocity development of features and products—together […]
We Still Haven’t Solved the Logging Problem
At a company I previously worked at, I helped build out the initial infrastructure to support a large cloud security product. It was one of the first times I had the opportunity to build something from nearly the very beginning. Like many operations professionals, so much of my career prior to this experience had been […]
TMI: BigPanda Separates the Signal from the Noise
Organizations have struggled for years with the problem of too much information. IT professionals can only address so many issues at one time, but many are faced with an overwhelming volume of alerts to try and review and prioritize. BigPanda thinks it can solve that problem with its event correlation platform. If everything is an […]
Q&A: Sematext’s Thies on Docker Monitoring, Part 2
In part one of my conversation with Stefan Thies, Sematext DevOps expert. we spoke about Docker’s use of Sematext Logsene logging, anomaly detecting and alerting software and SPM monitoring software. Let’s continue the conversation. David Geer: What makes Logsene centralized? Where is it centralized a typical deployment? What are the advantages of it being centralized? […]
Q&A: Sematext’s Thies on Docker Monitoring, Part 1
Stefan Thies is DevOps evangelist Sematext Group. I recently spoke with him about Docker’s use of Sematext Logsene logging, anomaly detecting and alerting software and SPM monitoring software. Read on for part one of our conversation. David Geer: Technically speaking, for the purposes of this article, what is logging? Thies: Logging means to store the […]
DevOps Leadership Series: Monitoring Containers and Microservices
Trevor Parsons (@trevparsons) is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Logentries, a leading SaaS-delivered log management and analytics service. I caught up with Trevor at the Velocity Conference in Santa Clara and asked him what themes were resonating with attendees this year. For this episode of the DevOps Leadership Series, Trevor briefly illustrates some current problems with […]
Five Areas Every e-Commerce Business Should Monitor Using Log Data
If you’re responsible for an e-commerce website, I guarantee you’ve been asked about, told about, or wondered about what kind of information and events you should be logging. Important things are happening all the time, and you need to know what’s going on! Right? Are they bad things, good things, or “nobody cares” things? So […]
Advanced Automation – Getting Your Systems to Work for You
In my previous post I discussed how to take your DevOps to the next level by taking it beyond infrastructure automation, to the automation of your deployments and code pushes, through patches and updates. And then I promised to make it interesting…so here is the next stage – actually using the extracted data to get […]
Logging Wins for Devops and Security
Its always great when companies can invest in tools that serve multiple groups and purposes. Ensuring proper setup and use of logs is one toolset that can serve both DevOps and Security. Why logs are important to DevOps DevOps use logs primarily to understand what’s going on inside an application server, database system or the […]