8 min
AWS
Automating the Cloud: AWS Security Done Efficiently
Today, we are going to be installing software on all your existing EC2 instances across several (or all!) accounts under an organization in AWS.
6 min
Log Management
Taking a Message-Based Approach to Logging
When you think about it, a log entry is really nothing more than a message that
describes an event. As such, taking a message-based approach to logging by
utilizing messaging technologies makes sense. Messaging creates the loose
coupling that allows a logging system to be adaptable to the needs at hand and
extensible over time.
Understanding a Standard Logging Architecture
Typically, logging is implemented in an application using a logger
[https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/log
9 min
InsightOps
3 Core Responsibilities for the Modern IT Operations Manager
In the good old days, IT operations
[https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/it-operations/] managers were responsible for
maintaining the infrastructure, meeting service levels agreements, sticking to
budget, and keeping employees happy. Life was not easy, but at least it was
familiar. You knew your hardware, your software, your employees. You determined
services levels based on what you could actually see and touch. You told people
what to do and they did it. While IT was perceived to be an expensive
6 min
InsightOps
What is BDD Testing: Practical Examples of Behavior Driven Development Testing
The Need for Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Testing Tools
It should come as no surprise to learn that testing is at the heart of our
engineers' daily activities. Testing is intrinsic to our development process,
both in practical terms and in our thinking. Our engineers work with complex
systems that are made up of complex components. Individual components may have
many external dependencies.
When testing, the scope of what is to be tested is important – it can be system
wide, focused on a p
5 min
InsightOps
5 Ways to Use Log Data to Analyze System Performance
Analyzing System Performance Using Log Data
Recently we examined some of the most common behaviors that our community of
25,000 users looked for in their logs, with a particular focus on web server
logs. In fact, our research identified the top 15 web server tags and alerts
created by our customers—you can read more about these in our
https://logentries.com/doc/community-insights/ section—and you can also easily
create tags or alerts based on the patterns to identify these behaviors in your
sys
2 min
InsightOps
How to Combine D3 with AngularJS
The Benefits and Challenges of D3 Angular Combination
Today we'll be focusing on how to combine D3 with the AngularJS framework. As we
all know, Angular and D3 frameworks are very popular, and once they work
together they can be very powerful and helpful when creating dashboards. But,
they can also be challenging and confusing especially when new to these
frameworks. The right way to incorporate D3 with Angular is to use custom
directives. Directives in Angular are essentially functions that ar
3 min
InsightOps
Announcing InsightOps - Pioneering Endpoint Visibility and Log Analytics
Our mission at Rapid7 is to solve complex security and IT challenges with
simple, innovative solutions. Late last year Logentries joined the Rapid7 family
to help to drive this mission. The Logentries technology itself had been
designed to reveal the power of log data to the world and had built a community
of 50,000 users on the foundations of our real time, easy to use yet powerful
log management [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/what-is-log-management/] and
analytics engine.
Today we are