1 min
IT Ops
Feature requests
There are so many thing we can do with logs. We have a pile of new ideas on how
to make Logentries better and we spend time implementing these every single day.
We also collect feature requests from you, our lovely users. But we want to do
more – we want to include you to the whole process of future development.
We are happy to announce our Feature requests page, a page that enables you to
add new feature requests, vote on them, and add comments with more details.
Access the page from the sideb
2 min
IT Ops
Cooking up Engine Yard logs with Chef
Opscode’s Chef is an open-source automation framework for the cloud, involving
‘recipes’ that can be triggered by events such as servers booting or restarting.
Chef scripts are written in Ruby, but will often use OS-specific system calls to
manipulate server instances. Chef is a great way to automate your cloud, and in
particular it’s useful as your environment grows! On Engine Yard, Chef recipes
can also be used to configure add-ons (like Logentries) on your servers, as we
will explain…
Each s
0 min
IT Ops
Focus on the first input element in jQuery
Just in case you want to focus on the first element in a form, here is how to do
it through one simple jQuery sector:
$('#form-id :input:enabled:visible:first').focus();
Once you select the right form (#form-id), it’s time to specify any input
elements including text areas (:input) which are editable (:enabled), visible
(:visible), and first in the form (:first).
4 min
IT Ops
How do I know if my Heroku app is slow?
So you’ve written a nice new Heroku app and have tested it thoroughly – it seems
really fast – yay!!! And what do I mean by thoroughly… so you tried out all the
functionality, everything works as you’ve expected, and the response time seems
A-ok!
Well at least it seems ok when there’s one request at a time…. but you wonder
what happens when you go live and the floodgates open… what is the response time
going to be like then and how will you know what your users are experiencing?
Thanks for Swe
1 min
IT Ops
Direct downloads
We are happy to announce a publicly available beta of direct downloads. Now you
can download any part of your log stream with literally one click!
We have provided a new button which you can see on the right side of the Log
screen. Click on the download icon to start the download immediately.
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You can configure different download options also. Specify whether you want to
download log entries in plain text or if they should be compressed first. You
7 min
IT Ops
Digging into Engine Yard Logs
I’ve recently been playing with a number of PAAS platforms, and its bringing me
back somewhat to my days toying with J2EE application servers, JDBC drivers,
Relational DBs etc. Oh how I remember deploying servers and databases and then
checking out my shiny new application, remember the J2EE petstore
[http://java.sun.com/developer/releases/petstore/] anyone?? 🙂
However the big difference with PAAS, over old school application servers is
that you do not need to spend a few days configuring them
3 min
IT Ops
Caching AJAX Responses in JavaScript
Ajax is a great tool for creating responsive dynamic web pages. Although Ajax
updates are usually much faster than page reloads, there is still considerable
delay when considering Ajax for pages that require real-time responses (content
updating in real time).
This gets even more complicated in fully dynamic user interfaces. Interfaces
structured within web pages with URLs that allow for anchor and back button
navigation and which require real time updating, in particular, can suffer from
repea
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit-ation for the Nation
In a couple of weeks, our very own @Mubix (AKA Rob Fuller to those who don't
live their life with an @ sign permanently attached to their name!) will be
offering Metasploit-ation for the Nation. Unlike that phrase – which I just
made up – Mubix will actually be talking sense as he walks penetration testers
through the delightful world of Metasploit Pro in a 4-hour in-depth training
session.
Mubix took some time to answer a few questions below to give you a flavor of the
training. If you have
2 min
PCI
PCI Newsletter #2 - Payment Processing Terminology and Workflow
Hi Everyone,
This is our second PCI 30 sec newsletter.
One cannot move through the PCI ecosystem without basic understandings of the
payment processing terminology and workflow. So let's have a look behind the
scene.
The payment processing terminology
In a nutshell, the payment transaction could be depicted as follow:
We have cardholders that make payment card purchases from merchants, merchants
that send payment transaction data to their acquirers, and acquirers that send
payment transacti
1 min
Patch Tuesday
May Patch Tuesday
So yesterday was Patch Tuesday, and following a mammoth April
[https://community.rapid7.com/blogs/rapid7/2011/04/15/april-patch-tuesday-round-up]
, it was a pretty quiet one, with only 2 vulnerabilities reported
[http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-may.mspx], and only one
of those given the most severe rating of “critical”. That said, of course any
vulnerability reported should be investigated and understood, and particularly
those rated critical.
This month the critical
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Pro 3.7: Better, Faster, Stronger
Over the last two months the Rapid7 team has been hard at work rewiring the
database and session management components of the Metasploit Framework,
Metasploit Express, and Metasploit Pro products. These changes make the
Metasploit platform faster, more reliable, and able to scale to hundreds of
concurrent sessions and thousands of target hosts. We are excited to announce
the immediate availability of version 3.7 of Metasploit Pro and Metasploit
Express!
Existing customers can apply the latest s
1 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Framework 3.7.0 Released!
Originally Posted by egypt
The Metasploit team has spent the last two months focused on one of the
least-visible, but most important pieces of the Metasploit Framework; the
session backend. Metasploit 3.7 represents a complete overhaul of how sessions
are tracked within the framework and associated with the backend database. This
release also significantly improves the staging process for the reverse_tcp
stager and Meterpreter session initialization. Shell sessions now hold their
output in a ri
1 min
Metasploit
Metasploit T-Shirt Design Contest: And the Winner is...
You have voted in large numbers – and the results are out: design #36
[/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-5353-1228/36.png] is the winner of the
Metasploit T-shirt design contest. Danny Chrastil submitted the winning design,
featuring the Metasploit logo consisting of code from the payload
osx/ppc/shell_reverse_tcp. The back shows the Metasploit splash screen cow, our
legendary creature of mystery and superstition.
A few words about the winner: Danny Chrastil aka @DisK0nn3cT is a web
appl
2 min
Microsoft
April Patch Tuesday Round-Up
LOTS of patches from Microsoft this week...
This week's Patch Tuesday was pretty significant, with a record-tying 17
bulletins that patch a record 64 vulnerabilities, 15 more than the previous
largest-ever set in October 2010. As usual, the Rapid7 team was all over it,
monitoring the threat and trying to help out where possible.
This month's bulletin addresses vulnerabilities across Microsoft Windows,
Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, .NET Framework and GDI .
There are seve
4 min
Who Will You Be Wearing? Vote for the New Metasploit T-Shirt!
Wow – 87 entries for our T-Shirt competition in one week. We were very impressed
with both quantity and quality of the entries we received for designing the new
Metasploit T-shirt, which will be featured in the new Metasploit store.
Now, it's your turn (again): We need you to vote for your favorite shirt.
Starting with 87 entries, we conducted a quick office poll produce a shortlist
of 15 for you to pick from. (Go here
[http://99designs.com/t-shirt-design/contests/t-shirt-design-wanted-metasplo