3 minute read ·  by Rob Sears

Bonsai Unaffected by Recent Ransomware Attack

This past week, a widely-reported ransomware attack was carried out against tens of thousands of MongoDB databases, and the attackers also targeted several hundred Elasticsearch instances for good measure. Those affected were given a distressing ultimatum: pay Bitcoin to the attackers, or have their data deleted. To add further insult, many who paid the ransom did not even receive their data in return.
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1 minute read ·  by Allison Zadrozny

2016 Q4 Uptime Report

October was a nearly perfect month except for a widespread .io outage on Oct 28th. We wrote a detailed log of the incident, including what we did to prevent us from being affecting from such an outage, here:
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1 minute read ·  by Nick Zadrozny

2016 Q2 Uptime Report

As your operations team, we at Bonsai take uptime—and reporting it—seriously. We've had another great quarter, and look forward to reporting even better numbers throughout the rest of 2016.
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1 minute read ·  by Allison Zadrozny

Now Supporting 2.x!

We’re excited to announce that we now support ES 2.2.2 in addition to 1.7.5 and 1.5. We’ve spent quite a bit of time improving our infrastructure to ensure 2.x will be a stable, blazing-fast build. Two weeks ago we shipped a button that allows anyone to upgrade their cluster to 2.2.2:
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