Posts by Evan Klein

Evan Klein is the Director of Product Marketing at Logz.io. He is passionate about security, data analytics, and cloud. Before joining Logz.io Evan worked in a variety of product management and product marketing roles, and received an MBA from MIT. Outside of work, Evan enjoys music, travel, and his family.

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What is DevOps? What's the difference between DevOps and things like Agile or Lean methodology?

What DevOps Is NOT

There’s no shortage of posts explaining what DevOps is—from articles that use acronyms like CALMS (Culture, Automation,...

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managing ELK

A Tale of Two Realities: Do Your Execs Know What It Takes to Manage…

Open source ELK is loved by executives and engineers alike, but it comes with some pitfalls to...

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kubernetes

Kubernetes Phase 2—Key Challenges at Scale

This article describes the challenges that need to be met in order to maintain, monitor, secure, and...

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monitoring and incident management

Monitoring and incident management: a winning combination

Learn how monitoring and incident management systems complement each other to achieve proactive, realtime incident responses that...

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cloud

How to Choose Your Cloud Provider

There are many factors to consider when choosing a cloud provider. We sum up the main considerations...

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challenges in monitoring hybrid cloud

Challenges in Monitoring Hybrid Clouds

Learn about best practices for overcoming the many challenges associated with monitoring hybrid clouds here.

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hybrid cloud

The Rise of the Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid clouds are growing in popularity, especially in large organizations. Learn more about benefits, challenges, and use...

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chaos engineering

Watching the Chaos: Monitoring and Chaos Engineering

Make sure your system can handle any incident that comes along by practicing chaos engineering. We share...

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The World Of Cloud-Native Monitoring

Due to the cloud's popularity, cloud native monitoring is a critical part of predicting application and security...

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Best Practices for Automating Monitoring

Automating monitoring helps maintain high-level monitoring capabilities even with many services running in a cluster. Here are...

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Five Tools for User Activity Monitoring

A comprehensive list of the five top user activity monitoring tools to prevent internal security breaches and...

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What Is User Activity Monitoring?

User activity monitoring can prevent internal threats which cost organizations both money and credibility. Here are some...

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Logs to Monitor for Security Analytics

Which logs should you track for effective security? We examine the top logs to monitor for security...

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The Importance of Security in IoT

Security in IoT is vital due to the growing popularity of these devices and the vulnerabilities they...

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CI/CD Tools for Cloud Applications on Kubernetes

We name some of the top CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) tools compatible with Kubernetes,...

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A Guide to the World of Cloud-Native Applications

The term cloud-native is thrown around a lot. But what qualities differentiate cloud-native applications from the rest?...

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How to Defend Your Business Against SQL Injections

Learn the strategies and best practices for protecting your business against SQL Injections, one of the most...

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Cassandra vs. MongoDB vs. Hbase: A Comparison of NoSQL Databases

There are many NoSQL databases on the market, each of which has pros and cons. Our comparison...

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The Top 5 Pitfalls of Serverless Computing and How to Overcome Them

Serverless computing is a breakthrough. However, it also comes with some drawbacks. We summarize some of the...

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Kubernetes as a Service: GKE vs. AKS vs. EKS

Hosted Kubernetes Services: The Battle Between Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Amazon Elastic Container Service...

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Top 5 Cloud Security Trends Revealed

With more businesses migrating to the cloud, Cloud security is becoming critical for more and more businesses....

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cloud comparison

Cloud Comparison: Oracle, IBM, Alibaba

Cloud adoption is growing and competition in the space is intensifying. Here's our comparison of Oracle, IBM,...

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GDPR

GDPR and Data Loss Protection: A Guide to Safeguarding Your Data

Complying with GDPR is critical for any organization that does business within EU territory. We outline how...

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on prem or cloud

On-Prem or Cloud? A Decision in Light of Security and Compliance

Which is better for security and compliance: on-prem or cloud? We examine the pros in cons of...

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nano vs micro

Nanoservices vs. Microservices

What's the difference between nonoservices and microservices? Learn the pros and cons of each technology and find...

Open Source

The Top 5 Open-Source NIDS Solutions

To improve the visibility of malicious activities in your network, it is important to deploy an NIDS....

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Top 5 open-source HIDS systems

Improve your security with a host-based intrusion detection system. Here's our comparison of the top open source...

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Collect, monitor, and process AWS logs and metrics at scale with Cognitive Insights

Learn how to contextualize your AWS data using Logz.io's Cognitive Insights to easily gain better insights into...

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container security

Container security best practices

Despite security issues, containers are a critical component of modern IT systems. Here are container security best...

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cloud security

The Complete Cloud Operations Security Blueprint

Our guide for keeping up with best practices, strategies, and vulnerabilities to watch out for to improve...

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stop breach

7 Signs of an Attempted Data Breach— and How to Stop It in Its…

Are you scared of data breaches? Learn the signs and mitigation techniques to stop an attempted data...

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Cybersecurity Best Practices: Protect Your Team from Phishing Attacks

Phishing attacks are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated. Here are some cybersecurity best practices to help you...