With the growing popularity of cloud computing, security incidents related to it have been on the rise. Logs are indispensable resources for countering these threats, and they can be utilized for alerting, taking remedial action, and even preventing future attacks. In this post, we will examine ways to better secure cloud-native applications using logs.

Monitoring requires a multi-faceted approach if DevOps teams want end-to-end visibility and deep insight into issues. This is especially true in the case of modern microservices applications, which are essentially collections of distributed services that talk to each other over a service mesh.

AWS Lambda is the leading serverless computing solution and is one of AWS’ most successful products, to date. Its popularity is in large part because of the way it makes development easier and faster. Lambda completely abstracts away the maintenance of underlying infrastructure including compute, storage, memory, and networking.

When using and troubleshooting IIS web server performance, logs are an essential resource. Let’s look at the top metrics on IIS logs and how to get the most out of logging when working with IIS servers.

AWS is a vast universe with over 100 cloud services, all geared to provide you with the most robust, reliable, and cost-effective cloud computing experience. Many of these services are closely related, and almost seem to overlap. There are multiple database services, logging services, resource creation services, compute services, notification services and even multiple configuration and management tools.

IT has always given importance to security and compliance. As infrastructure becomes more and more complex, IT needs to evolve toward more mature ways of monitoring applications and infrastructure. This means letting go of strategies, models, and products such as SIEM that used to work a decade ago, but are unable to serve the needs of today’s cloud-based microservice applications.

Log analysis involves large volume of data. Startups can generate a couple of gigabytes of data per day, and the largest web companies like Facebook log many terabytes of log data every day. (Back in 2009, Facebook was already logging a full 25TB daily.) How can you make sense of all that data? If you try to analyze it by manually without any tools, good luck. Today, the only way to stay on top of the massive amounts of data that your organization produces— whether you’re a small startup or a Fortune 500 company—is to leverage machine learning to help interpret log data in an automated fashion.