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Using synthetics to get the big picture

Nobody actually cares about the network. Provocative words coming from a network visibility company, you might be thinking. However, consider what you’re doing right now. You’re reading a blog on a website, maybe clicking around other tabs, possibly streaming some music, and likely keeping an eye on your work chat. These are all applications, and that’s what we all truly care about, not the plumbing that delivers them.

Getting Better Sysmon Data Using Cribl Stream

System Monitor, better known as Sysmon, is one of my favorite security datasets. The data is crazy detailed and offers a great way to power security detection and response since it gives cyber security teams a roadmap to understand exactly what systems or people are doing while they use any Windows operating systems. The avalanche of the data is the downside and why observability engineers need tools like Cribl Stream to manage and enrich Sysmon data to make it more useful and more cost-effective.

Azure Cost Management with LogicMonitor

As the future of hosting in the cloud continues to evolve and expand, LogicMonitor continues to work to empower admins with useful insights and valuable data to make smart business decisions. Azure Cost Management with LogicMonitor helps optimize cost when planning future rollouts, auditing others already in-flight, and capturing shareable items on a recurring basis or with live access for accounting or management teams to get quick insight into Azure costs.

Introducing the official ClickHouse plugin for Grafana

We are delighted to introduce the new first-party ClickHouse plugin for Grafana, developed by Grafana in collaboration with ClickHouse. Grafana is committed to continuing our partnership and maintaining this plugin, and we’re excited to add more features and to grow with ClickHouse. But why Grafana + ClickHouse?

Manufacturing smarter, faster with SAP hyperautomation

Smart factories have made manufacturing smarter. Mission critical IT applications like the SAP ERP processes are the nerve center of manufacturing industries ensuring that everything operates like a well oiled machine, from supply chains and factory floors, to finance and payroll systems. A winning manufacturing strategy is therefore dependent on successful management of the SAP landscapes. One that releases capacity from the drag of managing these complex systems and redirects resources to fuel innovation.

How to Effectively Optimize Your Website For Voice Search

Talking to a device, a watch, or a virtual assistant is becoming an everyday activity as chatting on the phone. While many of us are used to taking part in a live webchat with a real person, speaking to a computer rather than typing on a screen has been an adjustment. But it's not nearly as unfamiliar an experience as it once was, and it has many advantages. Voice search is a convenient, hands-free way to access information, news, entertainment, and of course, websites.

Prometheus 2.35 - What's new?

Prometheus 2.35 was released last month, focusing on a better integration with cloud providers. It also improved the service discovery, performance, and resources usage. One key change was the migration to Go v1.18. It has brought some changes in the support for TLS 1.0, 1.1, and certificates signed with the SHA1 hash function. Welcome to this first edition of What’s new in Prometheus. We love Prometheus, the de-facto open source standard monitoring tool!

Flowmon and WhatsUp Gold: Automatic Threat Detection Through Single Pane of Glass

Network Detection & Response (NDR) is a key element that provides an additional level of security across the company wide network through detection of threats that bypass traditional security measures and materialize in the company’s digital environment. Progress Flowmon ADS (Anomaly Detection System) is a typical representative of an NDR system that combines various detection techniques to ensure that malicious activity is recognized and flagged as a security incident.