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AWS provides extensive logging and monitoring capabilities to help ensure the integrity and security of workloads. AWS services like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPCFlow and AWS Config provide deep insights into the operational aspects of the system. The logs create a data avalanche that most organizations tend to ignore. This can be a costly mistake that may cause service interruptions, missed opportunities for detecting security breaches or inefficient resource utilization. However, for logging to be effective, it is essential to sort through the logs and to spot any outliers automatically, saving your IT team time and better protecting your workloads. Tools such as Splunk or Elasticsearch provide the ability to process and analyze logs at scale and provide rich dashboards for detecting and acting on patterns. The process of viewing and analyzing logs got event easier with AWS’s recent launch of Elasticsearch as a service. Once the service is created and configured, it is

  The Identity Theft Resource Center states that over 175 million records have been exposed in data breaches in 2015 through October. The incidents of breaches continue to increase and as more businesses are offering SaaS solutions to their customers, SaaS CEOs and Investors must take a careful look at their security practices to avoid business and financial risk. More and more businesses are offering SaaS solutions to their customers. However, many SaaS firms and their investors underestimate the importance of security as a critical component of their collective success. Many commercial SaaS operators have a “chink in their armor”. The lack of cybersecurity talent, low investment in security tools and generally weak management focus on security issues are contributory factors. This can be a costly mistake. Changing Regulatory Landscape around Cybersecurity US Regulators such as SEC and FTC amongst others are starting to aggressively enforce and in some cases expand

The folks at Lucidworks recently announced Silk – a logging and monitoring solution for enterprises using open source components like Solr, Kibana and Logstash.

Application Performance Monitoring, Logging and Systems Monitoring continue to be critical for secure and reliable platform operations. A key decision is whether to buy or build such

The ability to rapidly collect, process and present log data from the full stack is increasingly becoming important for trouble-shooting, ensuring service reliability and