In this article I’d like to share my experience with Elastic certifications. Recently, I had the opportunity to take the Elastic Certified Engineer and Elastic Certified Observability Engineer exams and I’d like to describe my preparation, experience and finally share some useful tips for anyone else who wants to follow the same path. Overview of…
Read MoreBecause “it works on my machine” is not an observability strategy. How It Started As an observability engineer, my workflow when starting a new project is pretty consistent: find the OpenTelemetry SDK for the language or framework in use, understand its quirks and limitations, and build from there. So when I picked up a Flutter…
Read MoreError during GLPI inventory task execution We have fixed a bug related to the Asset Management module and in particular in the usage of the GLPI inventory plugin to gather the inventory. List of updated packages To solve the issue mentioned above, the following packages have been updated for NetEye 4.46:
Read MoreA scalable approach to detecting malicious domains using Threat Intelligence and Indicator Match Rules One of the most common techniques used in phishing and initial access campaigns is the creation of domains that closely resemble legitimate ones. Attackers exploit typosquatting, homograph attacks, and brand impersonation to deceive users and steal credentials. For a Security Operations…
Read MoreIntroduction Managing Elasticsearch effectively – especially as environments grow in size and complexity – can quickly become a challenging task. Performance tuning, identifying the true root cause behind slowdowns, and optimizing resource allocation often demand specialized expertise and a significant investment in time. In enterprise ecosystems, where observability underpins critical services and reliability expectations are…
Read MoreIn many Elastic deployments, the natural approach every time you encounter a server with different needs is to create a new Fleet policy. Each group seems to require its own small set of tweaks or additional integrations. But the more policies you create, the harder it becomes to maintain and scale your configuration. In reality…
Read MoreOnce upon a time, humanity passed down epic stories and religious texts by memory alone. Entire civilizations relied on oral tradition to preserve their most important knowledge. Fast‑forward a few thousand years, and some companies are still doing the same thing with their procedures and information: trusting that Bob from Accounting… would “just remember it.”…
Read MoreImportant: GLPI security update Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a high security impact. Topic An update for the glpi packages is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.46 Summary The vulnerability is about a Stored XSS and an Authenticated SQL Injection. For details on how to apply this update, which…
Read MoreImportant: Lampo security update Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a medium security impact. Topic An update for the lampod packages is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.46 Summary The vulnerability is about sensitive information exposure due to improper error handling. For details on how to apply this update, which…
Read MoreImportant: Elastic Stack security update Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a Medium security impact. Topic An update for the Kibana package is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.46 CVEs All of the 4 CVEs are Denial of Service vulnerabilities that affect Kibana, within the Elastic Stack. Affected Products All…
Read MoreScenario Veeam Backup is widely used as backup software, especially on virtual VMware vSphere infrastructure. Together with the new version 13 of the product, the SAML Single Sign On (SSO) feature was introduced, which can be used to protect administrative access to the Veeam Backup console by delegating the admin authentication to an external Identity…
Read MoreError during generation of SLA reports We have fixed a bug that was causing an error during the generation of SLA reports. List of updated packages To solve the issue mentioned above, the following packages have been updated for NetEye 4.46:
Read MoreFrom a Technical Consultant’s Perspective “How can I tell if a new Elastic Integration feature or PR is already included in my NetEye version?” Elastic adds new features quite often. However, these features do not always appear in NetEye right away. That’s because each integration requires a specific Kibana version. If NetEye doesn’t yet ship…
Read MoreWelcome to part 20 in our series on creating effective tutorial-style videos on a budget. Today: Screencasts! Let’s start off with just our basic assumptions: There’s nothing wrong with the informal style, but it takes experience and skill to pull off well, while the style presented here can be done even by beginners, because it…
Read MoreFix NagVis navigation using IcingaDB Web URLs When clicking on a host or service from a NagVis map, you were redirected to the legacy Monitoring module. The links have been updated to correctly point to the IcingaDB Web module. List of updated packages To solve the issue mentioned above, the following packages have been updated…
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