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Setting up Syslog in your Papertrail trial? Here's what to send your admin

Sending server logs to Papertrail over Syslog takes one setup command, and running it needs admin access: sudo on Linux, or Administrator rights on Windows. If you started a free trial but don’t have that access here are instructions to get your logs flowing. Copy your setup command, send it to a teammate who has admin access using one of the ready-made messages below, and your logs can be streaming in Papertrail within minutes of them running the script. This post walks you through those steps.

Cribl Detect: A new way to SIEM

Cribl Detect helps security teams use an open, platform-first architecture for SIEM workflows, including compliance, detection, investigation, and response. This video explains how Cribl Detect combines telemetry pipelines, real-time detection, structured search, federated investigations, long-term retention, and open integrations.

Product Keynote: The Platform for Your Agentic Enterprise

The future of operations is predictive, unified, and AI-powered. Dive into how Splunk and Cisco help organizations unlock cross-domain insights at massive scale, provide intelligent context across security and observability, and build trust in AI with end-to-end visibility. Hear directly from product leaders on the latest innovations shaping agentic enterprises.

Welcome Keynote: Powering the Rise of the Agentic EnterpriseRise of the Agentic Enterprise

Join Jeetu Patel, Head of Product at Cisco, and Kamal Hathi, GM at Splunk, alongside a special guest, to see how organizations transform security, observability, and operations with AI workflows that are proven at scale. Discover how Splunk and Cisco bring unified visibility, trusted AI, and intelligent automation to help organizations.

Operationalizing Microsoft 365 Copilot: Compliance, security, and scale

Unmonitored AI is a massive organizational blind spot. Join Cribl's Field CISO, Ed Bailey, and Senior Product Manager, Daniel Pan to learn Cribl can help you affordably collect and store Microsoft 365 Copilot prompts and responses and share that data across your IT and Security teams to meet compliance requirements and gain real AI observability. We'll cover how to scale collection with less effort and build the AI-ready data architecture that solves today's challenges and sets you up for what's next.

Should you use a log or a metric?

Since Sentry added Logs and Application Metrics, there are now two ways to record that something happened in your app, and they can look pretty similar: Sentry.logger.info("user.signup") versus Sentry.metrics.count("user.signup"). Both store attributes, both include shared context automatically, and both can be filtered, grouped, and counted. So when you’re instrumenting your code, which one do you reach for?

PHP2Shell: What the Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Mean for Your Servers

TL;DR On October 21, 2026, PHP released emergency patches for two critical flaws known together as PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). An attacker with no credentials can use them to run code on a PHP web server, in some cases with a single HTTP request. Upgrade to PHP 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27 or 8.5.12 now. Then go through your logs, because exploitation attempts were recorded before the patch shipped. In this post.
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Monitoring CloudNativePG: What Changes When the Operator Owns Your Logs

Postgres operators like CloudNativePG (CNPG) have lowered the threshold for running highly available Postgres clusters on Kubernetes. Failover, replicas, backups, and rolling upgrades are handled by the operator, along with helpful niceties like automatic configuration of essential extensions. A few changes to a YAML manifest can provide a lot of value very quickly.