Satellite config creation in HA mode using zone names with whitespaces We’ve addressed an issue where running the neteye satellite config create for a satellite configured in HA mode having whitespaces in the Zone name prevented the procedure to successfully execute. List of updated packages To solve the issues mentioned above, the following packages have…
Read MoreFamiliar with the feeling when a critical system’s backup and recovery time is measured in hours? Operations teams rely heavily on the availability of monitoring data, so scheduling long periods of downtime is simply not an option. We recently faced this exact challenge: we had to schedule a multi-hour downtime because our MariaDB database had…
Read MoreWhen working with Logstash in production, one of the often-overlooked areas is the Dead Letter Queue (DLQ). This queue stores events that Logstash cannot process, usually due to parsing errors, mapping conflicts, or pipeline misconfigurations. While the DLQ is useful for troubleshooting, leaving it unmonitored can be dangerous: if it grows unnoticed, critical data might…
Read MoreUnexpected reboots, who doesn’t love them? A few weeks ago, we faced a problem that any platform engineer dreads: one of our nodes rebooted unexpectedly. The cause? The iDRAC watchdog forcefully terminated it. But what led iDRAC to decide it was time to shut down the node? A preliminary investigation concluded that there wasn’t any…
Read MoreHi 😀 Today I’d like to explore with you a migration that we performed to a service that’s used internally to monitor the performance of various DBs, gathering data that’s especially useful for troubleshooting. This tool is the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) platform, which combines agents or direct access to various supported DBMS (MySQL,…
Read MoreManaging a large fleet of Elastic Agents efficiently requires careful planning and proactive strategies to ensure stability, scalability, and security. As a technical consultant, I’d like to present some key considerations to help organizations avoid common pitfalls and streamline their operations. 1. Avoid Trust Issues One of the most critical aspects of managing an extensive…
Read MoreWelcome back for the second and last part of our journey into the jungle of Windows logs! In the first part we set out our goal – tracking admin authentications – and learned more about Windows, how authentication events are logged, and where can we focus to isolate the most accurate events. Today we’re going…
Read MoreTL;DR. Owner assignment on the Power Platform via the UI requires a lot of clicks. I use a small, idempotent PowerShell 7+ script that assigns co-owners to many cloud flows across many environments using az tokens and Flow Admin REST APIs. It filters by name prefix, checks existing permissions, retries on throttling, and runs on…
Read MoreWhile working on some internal tools, I needed secure access to a few PHP pages and virtual directories resources that, by default, didn’t have any built-in access control. Since NetEye already uses Keycloak as its authentication system, I decided to leverage it to handle login and user validation. This way I could avoid reinventing the…
Read MoreDashboard Graphs Now Use Full Width We’ve addressed an issue where service and host graphs on dashboards were not utilizing the full available width. This fix ensures the charts now expand to fill the space, providing a better and clearer data visualization. List of updated packages To solve the issues mentioned above, the following packages…
Read MoreWith NetEye version 4.42, we’re excited to introduce a clustered solution for MariaDB – MariaDB Galera – designed to enhance the high availability of all NetEye services. This improvement significantly increases the reliability of services that depend on the database, such as Icinga 2, Icinga Web 2, Grafana, Keycloak, and others. Thanks to this new…
Read MoreScenario TPS (Transparent Page Sharing) is a proprietary functionality in VMware ESX(i) which essentially does deduplication of memory pages used for virtual machines. Identical memory content across multiple machines thus only consumes memory once. When you have multiple virtual machines with the same guest operating system running, there’s a high chance of identical content which…
Read MoreIn the context of vulnerability management, it’s common to be faced with a long list of findings after each scan, often too many to tackle all at once. But how do you decide where to focus your efforts and resources? Which vulnerabilities are truly critical, the ones that could actually compromise your organization’s security? The…
Read MoreImportant: Elastic Stack security update (installed with SIEM) Type/Severity NetEye Product Security has rated this update as having a High security impact. Topic An update for the elasticsearch package is now available for NetEye 4. Security Fix for NetEye 4.43 CVE-2025-54988 (Apache Tika): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/MPR:L For a detailed overview of the security issue(s), including the impact, CVSS score, acknowledgments,…
Read MoreFix redirect to __SELF__ We resolved a bug for which sometimes during the login workflow an automatic redirect to __SELF__ was performed, forcing the user to manually change the URL on the browser tab. List of updated packages To solve the issues mentioned above, the following packages have been updated for NetEye 4.43:
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