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motadata

Agent vs Agentless Monitoring and How to Decide What Goes Where

Sep 4, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Why does half the infrastructure end up returning no monitoring data? The standard plan is to install collection software on everything, which moves quickly across servers and stops dead at the first device running closed firmware. Storage arrays, firewalls, and switches will never accept an install, and the rollout stalls there. That plan usually gets set once for the whole environment, with a single collection model applied to hardware it was never suited for.
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virtualmetric

How to Cut SIEM Ingest by 90% Without Losing Detection Coverage

Sep 4, 2026 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
Every SOC team knows the trade-off. Send everything to the SIEM platform and pay for it. Or filter aggressively and risk missing something. Filter lists are written once, during onboarding. Detection content keeps moving after that. Smart Engine, the new core of the VirtualMetric DataStream pipeline, takes the guesswork out of that decision. It reduces SIEM ingest using your registered detection rules. An event that no registered detection could match is dropped.
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lightrun

Live Debugging for Critical Systems: MTBF, MTTR & MTTA

Sep 4, 2026 By Lightrun Team In Lightrun
A critical system has to stay reliable without new failures or added downtime, and live debugging, confirming the root cause without stopping the system, is often the only way to do that. In practice, this means having runtime context: on-demand evidence generated at the point of failure rather than logging configured months earlier, which is what keeps MTBF up, MTTR, and MTTA down.
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scout

Can we live dangerously? Sandboxing Claude, and the Claude foreman that runs the rest

Sep 4, 2026 By Jack Rothrock In Scout
While logging into one’s LinkedIn will spew out endless talk of AI possibilities from “thought leaders” and the semi-disconnected alike, another pocket of the world spent the last few weeks watching the Shai-Hulud worm chew through npm. A self-propagating credential stealer that hit 400-plus packages and, delightfully, planted Claude Code and VS Code hooks so just opening the repo could run its payload.
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scout

Prompts, skills, and the AGENTS.md nobody wants to write (and how Anthropic writes theirs)

Sep 4, 2026 By Jack Rothrock In Scout
You’ve watched Claude Code compact a conversation. The context bar fills, it pauses, a summary appears, and it carries on like nothing happened. You probably assumed a housekeeping script trimmed the transcript in the background. It didn’t. The model compacted itself. When the window fills, Claude Code sends a long, specific prompt telling the model how to summarize its own conversation. Then it does, same model, same turn. The thing managing your context window is just another instruction.
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manageengine

Top Tips: How to be a tech-savvy traveler

Sep 3, 2026 By Alsherin In ManageEngine
Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and share ways to stay ahead. This week, let's look at a few ways you can be a tech-savvy traveler. Being a traveler is not easy, but with today's modern technology, it has become much easier. When we travel to places with no network, we sometimes forget about the ways we can use technology. Excluding the more familiar, I'm going to list some lesser-known tips. 1.
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raygun

Raygun APM Agent 3.0.14: faster, simpler, and ready for ARM64

Sep 3, 2026 By Phillip Haydon In Raygun
Today we are releasing Raygun APM Agent 3.0.14 for Windows, Linux, and Azure App Service. This release is the result of a substantial modernization of the Agent, profiler, installers, and release pipeline. It makes Raygun APM easier to deploy, reduces overhead in several critical paths, adds native Linux ARM64 support, and lets developers investigate APM data through Raygun API v3 and the Raygun MCP server. If you are upgrading from version 2.3.0, there is much more here than a version-number change.
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How to use Grafana auto grid dashboard option for flexible layout across devices

Sep 3, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
Learn how to use the auto-grid option, a flexible panel layout that adapts to varying screen sizes and dynamic content. Creators can now define the max number of columns or max height of panels, making dashboard layouts more responsive and maintainable.
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