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In SaaS companies, engineers are the biggest influencers to cloud costs. They choose the infrastructure, build the products, and produce the code. Unfortunately, having this power means engineering managers are often asked to predict cloud spend months or even years into the future. An executive or a head of finance might approach the engineering head and ask how much the company will spend on cloud costs next year, thinking he or she should naturally have the answer.

Lightrun enhances its enterprise-grade platform with the addition of RBAC support to ensure that only authorized users have access to sensitive information and resources as they troubleshoot their live applications. By using Lightrun’s RBAC solution, organizations can create a centralized system for managing user permissions and access rights, making it easier to enforce security policies and prevent security breaches.

Heatmaps are a beautiful thing. So are charts. Even better is that sometimes, they end up producing unintentional—or intentional, in the case of our happy o11ydays experiment—art. Here’s a collection of our favorite #chArt from our Pollinators Slack community. Today would be a great time to join if you’re into good conversation about OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb-y stuff, SLOs, and obviously, art.

We know that for many retailers and CPG companies, AI/ML solutions represent a game-changing technology. Yet, this journey seldom comes without a few expectable “growing pains”—from adoption and scale through a fully-fledged data-driven transformation. For multiple internal stakeholders across an organization, the end-to-end process can seem quite daunting—especially without a well-defined plan.

Understanding the difference between data governance and data management is paramount in any setting where you’re managing (and monetizing) data. The short answer is this: Let’s dive into these concepts in greater detail.

We have to come clean. During KubeCon, we experienced an incident that we weren’t ready to discuss until now. This incident caused quite a disruption and, had it been left unresolved, would have had a massive snowball effect. At the time, we didn’t want to raise any alarms, so we kept it quiet while our team rallied to resolve it. And to be honest, most folks probably didn’t even realize that it happened since we moved so quickly.

Log events come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Some are delivered as a single event per line. Others are delivered as multi-line structures. Some come in as a stream of data that will need to be parsed out. Still, others come in as an array that should be split into discrete entries. Because Cribl Stream works on events one at a time, we have to ensure we are dealing with discrete events before o11y and security teams can use the information in those events.

Automation has been a bit of a buzzword in the IT community in the last few years. Companies around the world are looking for ways to scale and automate routine tasks so they can focus on more strategic initiatives. But “automation” is a word that can cover a lot of workflows and can mean something different to every team. What do we mean when we talk about automation here at LogicMonitor?

Global cyberattacks increased by 38% in 2022 (Source). And because attacks are not only becoming more common, as well as difficult to detect, 65% of organizations plan to increase their cybersecurity spending in 2023 (Source). Even so, hackers will continue to hone their skills and exploit vulnerabilities. Successful ransomware attacks will happen. Theft and sale of personally identifiable information (PII) and other “valuables” on the dark web will happen.

The Biden-Harris administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy on March 2, 2023. The national cyber strategy document establishes expectations and offers guidance on how the United States government intends to protect the country’s digital assets and critical infrastructure from the threat of cyberattacks.