The recent CrowdStrike outage illustrated the importance of resilience across our organizations. While that case was specifically related to operating system and application resilience, network resilience is just as critical to today’s business systems. The 2023 Cisco Security Outcomes Report found that 61% of respondents had experienced a breach that impacted the resilience … [Read more...] about Improving Operational Efficiencies and Providing Tighter Integrations with Cisco Security Products
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Improving the event queue in Elastic Agent and Beats
When an output worker is ready to send data, it requests a batch of events from the internal queue. The size of this request is controlled by bulk_max_size, an important output tuning parameter. If bulk_max_size is 100, then the queue will try to provide 100 events for the output worker to send.The queue also has a flush.timeout parameter. When this is zero, the queue will … [Read more...] about Improving the event queue in Elastic Agent and Beats
Improving the Elastic APM UI performance with continuous rollups and service metrics
Our journey began back in the 7.x series where we noticed that doing ad-hoc aggregations on raw transaction data put Elasticsearch® under a lot of pressure in large-scale environments. Since then, we’ve begun to pre-aggregate the transactions into transaction metrics during ingestion. This has helped to keep the performance of the UI relatively stable. Regardless of how busy … [Read more...] about Improving the Elastic APM UI performance with continuous rollups and service metrics
Improving citizen experience with generative AI: Navigating a new era for state and local government
Last week, I wanted to find out the process for my fifteen year old daughter to get her first driver's license. Sounds simple enough. However, I ended up spending a good portion of my weekend searching for definitive answers — navigating multiple websites, without the option of asking a real, live person. In the very near future, I'll simply be able to ask a chatbot. The … [Read more...] about Improving citizen experience with generative AI: Navigating a new era for state and local government
Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Steps to improve search relevance
Since 8.0 and the release of third-party natural language processing (NLP) models for text embeddings, users of the Elastic Stack have access to a wide variety of models to embed their text documents and perform query-based information retrieval using vector search.Given all these components and their parameters, and depending on the text corpus you want to search in, it can be … [Read more...] about Improving information retrieval in the Elastic Stack: Steps to improve search relevance
Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics
Everyone in the software industry is in a race to become more agile. We all want to improve the performance of our software development lifecycle (SLDC). But how do you actually do that? If you want to improve your performance, first determine what KPI you’d like to improve.DORA metrics offer a good set of KPIs to track and improve. It started as a research by the DevOps … [Read more...] about Improving DevOps Performance with DORA Metrics
Straight from the source: 3 ways customers are improving security with Secure Network Analytics
We know all too well that security can be a grind and that modern threats are and will continue to become more and more stealthy and sophisticated. A few years ago, the typical security practitioner’s plight was often described as an anxiety-inducing and exhausting existence that involved sifting through an endless barrage of alerts and reacting whenever known threats had … [Read more...] about Straight from the source: 3 ways customers are improving security with Secure Network Analytics