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Democratizing Breach Detection: How SMBs Can Build Their Own Time Series Security Monitor

Summary Small and midsize businesses are often flying blind when it comes to security breach detection. An affordable way to address this issue without the complexity of SIEM is by modeling security events as time series data. This architecture takes audit logs from SaaS platforms and normalizes activities like logins, downloads, and token creation to establish behavior baselines that can be used to detect anomalies indicating security breaches. Table of Contents.

Fleet Monitoring with Netdata

Modern infrastructure doesn't only live in data centers anymore. It's in retail stores, factory floors, vehicles, cell sites, kiosks, and robots, thousands of nodes across hundreds of locations, connected over links you don't control, in places your team can't easily reach. Traditional observability wasn't built for this. Centralizing every metric from every device gets expensive fast, degrades over constrained links, and goes blind exactly when a remote node needs attention most. In this webinar, we'll show how Netdata inverts the model by putting intelligence at the edge.

Zero To Logs - Getting Graylog Up and Running in Under an Hour Webinar

Getting Graylog up and running does not have to take hours of configuration work. In this session, Graylog Director of Technical Marketing Jeff Darrington walks through a complete installation using Docker Compose, taking you from a blank environment to a fully functioning log management platform with live data ingestion in under an hour.

Digital Workspace Monitoring Software Comparison for Enterprise IT

As enterprises adopt hybrid work, IT teams face growing challenges in keeping the digital workspace fast and reliable. Employees access business applications through virtual desktops, SaaS platforms, cloud infrastructure, and physical endpoints, all of which contribute to the overall user experience. Monitoring these environments using disconnected native tools often leaves critical visibility gaps. Digital Workspace Monitoring closes those gaps.

Feature Release: Obkio Insights: Automatic Network Diagnostics (Beta)

Today, we’re launching Obkio Insights, our biggest feature yet, in beta, and the one we’ve been building toward for 8 years. Insights is launching in beta. That means existing customers can start using automatic network diagnostics today, with more root cause coverage, refinements, and improvements rolling out over the coming months based on real-world feedback. As with any beta, you may run into the occasional bug or rough edge.

AI SRE Agent Audits Runbook Coverage and Opens the PRs: AURA

3 a.m., the pager fires, and the runbook describes a service that shipped three versions ago. Ask the agent what the cluster actually has instead. Runbooks go stale because clusters change faster than documentation does. Every deploy, every new service, every renamed alert widens the gap between what is running and what is written down.

How to Survive SOX Compliance Season Without Rebuilding Your Records

Why does SOX season turn into a hunt for screenshots and forwarded approval emails? The controls were almost certainly running all year. The record of them running is scattered across a ticketing tool, an identity directory, a backup console, and someone's inbox. SOX compliance puts financial reporting under a legal standard, and the IT team ends up carrying a large share of the proof. Change approvals, user access lists, backup jobs, and batch schedules all become audit evidence.