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DDoS attack: How AWS going down affected Business

On October 21, 2019, AWS suffered a DDoS attack and several of their services experienced a partial outage that lasted just over 8 hours and brought down a large portion of the internet. Amazon confirmed that a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack caused the interruption in its services, leaving a large number of websites […]

Looking back on Summer 2019 at Panopta

Celebrating the end of Summer 2019 Summer 2019 is officially over, so we wanted to look back and celebrate the way our team has grown and changed since the start of the season. As we look forward to cooler weather, warm sweaters, and the last few months of 2019, here are some of the awesome […]

Monitoring a VMware vCenter cluster with the Panopta OnSight

We have recently finished updating the Panopta OnSight so it can natively integrate with a vCenter cluster, making monitoring a VMware vCenter cluster simple and easy. Now, by providing some basic information to the OnSight, Panopta can discover all the hosts, clusters, datastores, and virtual machines you have running in that environment and immediately begin […]

Inside views on a company culture

Editor’s Note: We are proud to bring you this post from our summer Intern, Jasmin Lomeli from Epic Academy. She has been working with our marketing team since late June, to learn about the ins and outs of working in a startup office environment. Companies grow daily with just including one more individual into their […]

Monitoring Kubernetes with Panopta

Kubernetes, Google’s open-source container management platform, offers one of the most robust toolsets for facilitating container configuration and automation. However, the level of abstraction that is native to Kubernetes presents a lot of challenges to monitoring and, while the level of abstraction and auto-scaling Kubernetes offers is incredibly powerful, without proper monitoring, it can create […]

Using the Panopta Monitoring Policy Framework for monitoring configuration

The Panopta Monitoring Policy Framework is a tool meant to help manage your monitoring configuration, and quickly onboard new instances to an existing environment, or rapidly setup monitoring in a new environment. By bringing all of your configuration into one place, monitoring policies can help you automate adding templates, tags, manifest files, APIs, and other […]