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 […]
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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 […]
Monitoring Docker Containers with the Panopta Agent
One of our newest integrations adds native Docker monitoring to the Panopta Agent. Using the Linux Agent, which is included in our monitoring agent, customers can monitor their Docker containers by installing the Panopta Agent on the Docker host, allowing it to discover and represent each container individually as other instances would be represented. This […]
Container Monitoring Guide: How to maintain visibility when moving to containers
With the growing adoption of container and microservice-driven environments, it’s important not to get too excited and potentially throw yourself into a transition that leads to a disaster. While both Docker and containers have carved out a significant space in the industry, moving to containers is tricky and requires significant planning. In addition, there are […]
An Introduction to Monitoring Hybrid Clouds
Containerization is more than just a trendy topic nowadays. With the rise of hybrid cloud environments and the ever-expanding adoption of containers, it’s important to start thinking about how to maintain visibility in these environments. Monitoring hybrid clouds presents many of the same challenges any hybrid environment would, but with the many moving parts that […]
Lessons from the Recent Basecamp Outage
The weeks of March 4 and March 11 weren’t great for the popular project management and team communication software Basecamp. Basecamp’s CTO, David Heinemeier Hansson (also known as DHH) wrote two very honest posts about the outages and promised to do better for their customers. Luckily, Basecamp up until now had experienced few outages, and […]
DNSSEC Basics and How to Set Up DNS Security Extensions
We’ve mentioned security and DNSSEC in a few different places in this series, but we wanted to give DNSSEC basics proper attention as we put together our final post on DNS. Due to the nature of DNS, it’s just not secure on its own. When the DNS protocol was first written, the internet was much […]
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