Sysdig, Inc. the cloud-native intelligence company, today announced
Sysdig Monitor 3.0. Sysdig Monitor 3.0 is an industry-first in delivering enterprise-grade Prometheus
monitoring. In addition, the new release further cements Sysdig as the
leader in Kubernetes® monitoring and Docker monitoring for enterprises
with the introduction of universal Kubernetes support, cluster
management dashboards, and StatefulSet metrics, as well as Prometheus
Query Language (PromQL) capabilities and Grafana integration.
Enterprises that adopt the
Sysdig Cloud-Native Intelligence Platform run more reliable and secure containers and microservices. To further invest in this strong product momentum, Sysdig announced
its series D funding round of $68.5 million earlier this month.
As
enterprises move toward modern infrastructure to support digital
transformation initiatives, visibility into the performance of dynamic,
distributed microservices becomes a significant challenge. Successful
monitoring of business-critical applications and infrastructure based on
cloud-native solutions like Kubernetes and Docker requires a new
approach. Enterprises in early-phase Kubernetes projects often use open
source Prometheus to research the performance of their applications on
this new platform. As these organizations transition to full-scale
production, there are additional requirements for broader telemetry and
event data, long-term data retention, high availability, and access
control. Sysdig delivers these capabilities to help enterprises deliver
efficient, secure applications at enterprise scale and accelerate
time-to-value with Prometheus.
"I'm
engaged with a massive digital transformation project within the UK
government. We knew up front that we needed a monitoring solution
designed for containers and Kubernetes. After trialing other products in
this space, we found Sysdig best suited to our needs. We're now heavily
using Prometheus metrics, but also rely on a whole range of other data
that Sysdig provides to help us identify what's happening across our
environment of hundreds of nodes and growing," said Jay Keshur, director
of Appvia Ltd. "Sysdig has proven to be the most effective way to
deliver Kubernetes monitoring and security to developer and operations
teams. With Sysdig Monitor 3.0, we have a platform that continues to
evolve and grow with us."
Delivering Enterprise-grade Prometheus
"We
love Prometheus and the tremendous monitoring value it adds, which is
why we have started to contribute to the open source project in addition
to providing Prometheus capabilities for enterprise customers," said
Loris Degioanni, chief technology officer and founder of Sysdig. "Sysdig
has embraced Prometheus to provide users with another source of rich
data alongside our existing kernel instrumentation. With Sysdig Monitor
3.0, enterprise customers see the whole picture and can resolve issues
more quickly. "
Enterprise-grade Prometheus with Sysdig Monitor 3.0 focuses on five key areas:
- Scale:
Provides a horizontally scalable distributed system platform that
handles tens of millions of metrics per second with cross-cluster
aggregation to keep pace with large, complex environments.
- Scope:
Collects, analyzes, and correlates Prometheus metrics with granular
metrics and events for system processes, applications, cloud platforms,
networks, orchestrators, and customer metrics like StatsD and Java TM Management Extensions (JMX), with advanced visualizations like topology maps.
- Simplicity:
Reduces complexity with a turn-key solution that eliminates the
headaches of managing multiple isolated monitoring systems and services.
- Security:
Isolates services and data without resorting to isolated
infrastructure, protecting and simplifying control with Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication, role-based access
control (RBAC), single sign-on (SSO), and Sysdig Teams for fine-grained service-based access control.
- Support: Extends technical support and services to enterprise Prometheus users to resolve issues faster.
Key Features of Monitor 3.0
PromQL
Sysdig
Monitor is the only enterprise monitoring solution to offer PromQL for
metric queries that extend beyond Prometheus metrics. DevOps can now
calculate advanced metrics with Prometheus and any other collected
application, system, and custom metric like JMX or StatsD using PromQL
to meet the unique monitoring needs of their enterprise.
Grafana Plugin
The
new Grafana plugin lets users choose to utilize the open source Grafana
visualization and dashboarding solution popular with Prometheus users
to view Sysdig-hosted time series metrics.
New Kubernetes Metrics and Dashboards
Support
for StatefulSet metrics and default dashboards enhances Kubernetes
performance monitoring for users that deploy stateful applications such
as databases - streamlining problem identification and resolution. New
cluster state, master health, and capacity management dashboards
increase operational efficiency, helping cluster operators ensure the
health of their orchestration system.
Universal Kubernetes Support
Sysdig
extends the value of Sysdig Monitor to all popular Kubernetes packages,
including Pivotal Kubernetes Service (PKS), Kubernetes with Mesosphere
DC/OS, Kubernetes with Docker 2.0, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), and Azure Container Service (AKS).
Embracing Open Source Technology
Sysdig launched in 2013 with its open source monitoring technology, sysdig, and later with the Sysdig open source security project, Sysdig Falco.
This release further reinforces the commitment to the open source
movement by providing the Sysdig Cloud-Native Intelligence Platform to
open source Prometheus users and extending its adoption to enterprise
customers.
Availability
Sysdig
Monitor 3.0 will be rolled out to all Sysdig customers in this coming
quarter and it will be demoed for the first time at AWS re:INVENT in
November.