Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
Log4j – Getting visibility into your container images
What’s Log4j? What is it used for? Log4j is a popular Java logging library widely used in many Java enterprise applications. Because logging is so fundamental to every application, the impact of the Log4j vulnerability is quite broad. More likely than not, this vulnerability impacts you if you have Java code embedded in your software … Read more
Masking sensitive information in logs with LogFlow
As a business, you’re bound to have large numbers of interactions with customers, prospects, employees, consultants, partners, and third-party vendors. These interactions generate huge amounts of data and often contain information that are sensitive in nature and possibly personally identifiable. Sensitive data that could make their way into your logs include user location, names, addresses, … Read more
Apica Platform Combines Active Monitoring and Load Testing for Better Business Outcomes
New secure platform delivers an ideal user experience and peace of mind for businesses. Apica Systems, the leader in service-level assurance, announced its unified platform that combines active monitoring and load testing to ensure the health and performance of all applications. Monitoring teams can now ensure all business-critical applications and transactions are secure and available, … Read more
Monitoring Spring Boot applications with Prometheus and Apica
Spring Boot is a Spring module that combines embedded servers with the Spring Framework. It enables rapid application development on the Spring framework and provides a simpler and faster way to set up, configure, and run simple and web-based applications. You can use Sprint Boot to create stand-alone Spring-based applications that require minimal configuration. In … Read more
4 Common Microservices Observability Issues
When large software and services are split down into micro applications or microservices, they become simpler to maintain. Microservice design has grown popular among developers as a way to prevent or reduce problems. The modular architecture method of development results in the flexible and dynamic execution of highly-defined and distinct tasks by dividing huge programs … Read more
Data Compliance and Why It is Important in 2022?
Data protection is the need of the hour for anyone and everyone working in the compliance spectrum. The number of information security, privacy regulations, and standards are dizzyingly increasing by the day, and organizations must conform to them all to do business with their target customers. While it can be difficult and time-consuming to ensure … Read more
5 Best Practices of Data Masking
Data breaches are on the increase; it’s no secret. Almost every day brings news of a large corporation disclosing the loss of personal information, along with officials asking for a full investigation and a renewed commitment to securing consumer data. What’s particularly perplexing about these circumstances is that current technologies and data protection best practices … Read more
Monitoring AWS CloudTrail events using CloudWatch and Apica
If your organization uses AWS services, you’d agree that it can be difficult for AWS administrators to stay on top of all activities and events that occur within your AWS account. If your organization heavily uses AWS services, there’d be a phenomenal amount of events and activities to track, thereby making governance, risk, and compliance … Read more
Why Log Monitoring And Analysis Are Critical
Logs are essential for determining the performance and health of your system. In order to fuel an observability platform throughout your system, good logging practices are also required. In general, monitoring entails gathering and analyzing logs and other system indicators. Log analysis is the process of extracting information from logs, which is subsequently fed into … Read more
10 Reasons To Invest In Data Observability
Data operations are like tuned automobiles. When all the parts operate together, the result is a stunning blend of speed and performance. If one of the numerous components fails, you are unconsciously invoking an accident. Data Observability is a pillar of the growing Data Reliability category and the next frontier of data engineering, solving complex … Read more
Centralized Windows Event Log Management on Apica
We’ve previously written about how event and endpoint logs are essential for maintaining endpoint and overall system security. A breach at an endpoint could quickly bring attackers straight to the heart of your IT systems and networks. Our previous post showed you the importance of centralizing operating system logs and shipping Linux logs to Apica … Read more
Tiered Storage – Pros and Cons
Tiered storage is a method of data management that assigns data to various kinds of storage devices/media based on the current value of the underlying data. Data management that is effective acknowledges that all information has an inherent value from the moment it is generated until it is no longer useful and that this value … Read more
