The time between graduating and starting your first job is an exciting — and overwhelming — time. As you enter the ‘real world’, you’re embarking on a new phase and there isn’t one path to take. If you’ve surveyed your options and are set on finding a role in tech, we can help! We asked two participants of our ElastiGrad program and two seasoned tech-industry Elasticians for … [Read more...] about The Elastic Guide to: Getting your first tech job
guide
A User Guide for OpenSearch Dashboards
Over the last decade, log management has been largely dominated by the ELK Stack – a once-open source tool set that collects, processes, stores and analyzes log data. The ‘k’ in the ELK Stack represents Kibana, which is the component engineers use to query and visualize their log data stored in Elasticsearch. Sadly, in January 2021, Elastic decided to close source the ELK … [Read more...] about A User Guide for OpenSearch Dashboards
A Guide to Log File Parsing Tools
While log parsing isn’t very sexy and never gets much credit, it is fundamental to productive and centralized log analysis. Log parsing extracts information in your logs and organizes them into fields. Without well-structured fields in your logs, searching and visualizing your log data is near impossible.In this article, we’ll review some of the more popular technologies for … [Read more...] about A Guide to Log File Parsing Tools
Beginner’s Guide to Prometheus Metrics
Over the past decade, Prometheus has become the most prominent open source monitoring tool in the world, allowing users to quickly and easily collect metrics on their systems and help identify issues in their cloud infrastructure and applications.Prometheus was originally developed by SoundCloud when the company felt their metrics and monitoring solutions weren’t meeting their … [Read more...] about Beginner’s Guide to Prometheus Metrics
Guide to AWS Monitoring with Prometheus and Logz.io
Prometheus is a widely utilized time-series database for monitoring the health and performance of AWS infrastructure. With its ecosystem of data collection, storage, alerting, and analysis capabilities, among others, the open source tool set offers a complete package of monitoring solutions. Prometheus is ideal for scraping metrics from cloud-native services, storing the data … [Read more...] about Guide to AWS Monitoring with Prometheus and Logz.io
The Elastic Guide to: Distributed Work
How exactly does a distributed company work? We’re distributed by design, which means our company policies and values revolve around how to best work when Elasticians are around the world.Because we’ve been doing this long before distributed work became cool, we have some tips and tricks that make it easier for everyone to stay connected and perform their best work. Ask for … [Read more...] about The Elastic Guide to: Distributed Work
How GRC protects the value of organizations — A simple guide to data quality and integrity
Contemporary organizations understand the importance of data and its impact on improving interactions with customers, offering quality products or services, and building loyalty. Data is fundamental to business success. It allows companies to make the right decisions at the right time and deliver the high-quality, personalized products and services that customers expect. There … [Read more...] about How GRC protects the value of organizations — A simple guide to data quality and integrity
Getting Started Guide: Falcon Long Term Repository
Limited data retention resulting from financial or technological constraints makes it hard for security teams to see the complete history of an attack. This lack of full context about a threat — or a potential threat — eventually catches up with organizations, leading to longer dwell times and increased risk of a breach. CrowdStrike Falcon Long Term Repository (LTR), formerly … [Read more...] about Getting Started Guide: Falcon Long Term Repository
Cisco StarOS Forensic Guide Published
Cisco is pleased to announce a new addition to the Forensic Investigation Procedures for First Responders series of documents that will help customers and partners triage Cisco products that are suspected of being tampered with or compromised. These guides provide step-by-step instructions for first responders that can be used to assess platform integrity and collect … [Read more...] about Cisco StarOS Forensic Guide Published
A comprehensive guide on threat hunting for persistence with osquery
While this might seem complex, the Elastic Osquery Manager integration supports an easy deployment across multiple endpoints and simplifies the collection of data and aggregation of data.It’s never been easier to implement osquery at scaleThe Osquery Manager integration simplifies the deployment shown in Figure 1 by adding it to the policy assigned to the agents running on your … [Read more...] about A comprehensive guide on threat hunting for persistence with osquery