Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
Key elements of observability data pipeline control
Modern IT environments are becoming increasingly distributed in nature. Distributed environments have a large number of interdependent and interconnected parts, making them more susceptible to failure. As businesses evolve, the underlying distributed technology stacks that support them take on more services, infrastructure, and other dependencies, making it ridiculously difficult to watch for and manage failures. … Read more
The difference between monitoring and observability
We live in a complicated world of Enterprise IT and software-driven consumer product design. The internet offers IT infrastructure services from remote data centers. Companies use these services as microservices and containers spread across infrastructure and platform services. Consumers anticipate frequent feature updates over the internet. To fulfill these end-user demands, IT service providers and … Read more
How to Reduce TCO and Infrastructure Costs for your Business?
A large percentage of organizations today tend to spend way too much on compute resources and storage. For instance, investing in high capacity on-premise data centers, to meet the ever-growing demand when the cloud has a more inexpensive alternative. Statistically speaking, on average, small businesses spend approximately 6.9% of their revenue on IT. So, there … Read more
Reigning in high-volume data sources at scale
Gaining business intelligence by sifting through TBs of system-generated data is challenging. Imagine doing this at scale while also having to converge data from disparate and distributed data sources so that your customers, employees, and partners have the data they need precisely when they need it. When dealing with enormous amounts of data, most observability, … Read more
PCI DSS Compliance and Logging: How Apica Can Help
Credit card fraud is a term used to denote fraud committed using credit or debit cards. Credit card fraud is often backed by stolen, unauthorized, leaked, or forced access to payment card information. Attackers commonly gain access to card information through skimming, social engineering, account takeovers, or application fraud. In many cases, system breaches and … Read more
Centralized Linux Log Management Using Apica
Endpoints in an IT environment generate logs related to access, operations, events, and errors. A security breach on an endpoint could direct attackers to the other components and endpoints it connects with, thereby making endpoint logging and monitoring crucial for IT security. Modern IT environments and applications often have multiple endpoints and tiers of infrastructure … Read more
The Importance of Event and Endpoint Logs in Security
Modern organizations are under a constant threat of cyberattacks, unauthorized data access, and identity theft. A simple network monitoring system alone cannot provide enough security for their vast and complex IT infrastructure, customers, and employees. Organizations constantly improve their security posture through: continuous cybersecurity risk assessment tracking security metrics implementing state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions employee and … Read more
8 Best Open Source SIEM Tools
SIEM tools are fast turning into a must-have for security-focused businesses worldwide. With their proven abilities in threat protection, detection, and mitigation, SIEM systems are beneficial in safeguarding businesses from unwanted threats. Our last post explained what SIEM is, the value it adds, how SIEM works, and what to look for in a SIEM solution. … Read more
A Beginner’s Guide to SIEM
IT environments of any organization around the world are constantly under threats of cyberattacks. To stay safe and miles ahead of potential attacks, organizations continually tighten security regulations and focus on reducing their attack surfaces. Constantly improving security is no easy feat and is very challenging. What could help security teams is including SIEM software … Read more
Comparing Log Management SaaS and PaaS Solutions
With the ever-increasing complexity in today’s software stacks, there’s a greater need to ramp up an organization’s observability capabilities to take on challenges brought about by cloud technology. A robust observability mechanism helps organizations detect and remediate issues and threats to their applications and infrastructure well in advance. A log is a crucial component of … Read more
How to Configure Kubernetes RBAC, Network Policies, and Runtime Privileges
Kubernetes is an open-source cluster management system with many applications in the world of business and commerce. Kubernetes was first developed by Google in 2014 and was heavily influenced by Google’s Borg cluster management system. Currently, it is developed and maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The main benefit that Kubernetes lends to businesses … Read more
Monitoring your ECS Fargate logs with AWS FireLens and Apica
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works on Amazon ECS and EKS. AWS FireLens is a log routing agent built for ECS containers and enables administrators to use task definition attributes to route logs to external log aggregators. AWS FireLens unifies data collection across the ECS cluster, and … Read more
