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Three New Standards Compound Security Engineering Challenges

A recent ESG/ISSA survey highlighted that security professionals are overwhelmed with competing proprietary data standards and integration challenges. Today’s security landscape often comprises dozens of tools, each with its own unique format. Even if the format is defined and widely adopted, like Syslog, implementations vary widely from tool to tool, or even from release to release for the same tool. How big of a problem are these differing data formats?

Replay Data from Azure Blob with Cribl Stream

One of the core features of Cribl Stream is the Replay capability. We pride ourselves on giving customers choice and control over their data. The ability to archive data in cheap object storage, and then providing the ability to reach into the same object storage is one example of this. It’s safe to say that S3 and AWS have become synonymous with the term object storage. It’s like a modern-day Kleenex, or Band-Aid. However, it’s important to remember that there are other, equally featured object storage options available. In this video, we’ll walk through an example of Replay with Azure Blob, and view logs within Humio.

Top 10 Questions to Ask about the Microsoft Teams User Experience

For more than a million organizations around the world, Microsoft Teams is at the core of communications and productivity in today’s hybrid workplace. Having made the investment in Teams, organizations have realized a challenge when it comes to Microsoft Teams user experience: visibility into the many factors that can impact Teams performance, from networks and ISPs to misconfigured routers.

Honeycomb Announces Major Updates to PagerDuty Integration

Today, we’re announcing major new updates to Honeycomb’s PagerDuty integration. These updates put more of the information you need into PagerDuty notifications and allow for greater configurability. These enhancements are available to all users who leverage Honeycomb Triggers and Burn Alerts to send notifications via PagerDuty.

Augmenting APM with InfluxDB for Faster Issue Resolution

An enterprise IT company hosted a large industry event that drew attendees from all around the globe, including key technology leaders. Organizers knew that their IT offerings needed to be top notch to ensure attendees were happy when it came to event experience. The event application allowed attendees to browse and register for sessions at the event. So, organizers needed to be able to identify issues in real-time and fix them quickly.

InfluxDB Cloud Native Collectors, Enterprise and Industrial IoT Examples - Part 1

Learn how to deploy InfluxDB Cloud’s Native Collectors with Kepware and The Things Network. Did you hear about the new feature that just dropped to InfluxDB Cloud? Native Collectors! Starting with MQTT. There will be plenty of content to get you started with Native Collectors. So this blog series covers connecting two popular IoT-based platforms to InfluxDB Cloud using native Collectors. One Enterprise use case and one industrial use case.

Retrace - Much More Than Your Average APM Tool

Finding the root cause of application performance issues is the crux of every app troubleshooting exercise. So why don’t more APM tools provide great root cause analysis? The trouble is – pun intended – the cause of a slow application can come from different sources, many outside the application itself. So APM tools that focus on the ‘A’ may never truly find the root cause.