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In today's hyper-connected world, cyber threats are an ever-present challenge that organizations of all sizes must face. With cybercriminals becoming increasingly advanced, prioritizing monitoring and managing your firewalls to safeguard your digital assets has never been more critical. This article aims to comprehensively understand five essential firewall monitoring best practices to fortify your network and protect your valuable data.

Network automation enables teams to use software to plan, develop, operate, or optimize networks with little or no human intervention. Effectively, network automation leverages some logic to execute “task A” when “event B” happens. Network automation can be used in a range of ways, anything from AI-driven network analytics to traditional health checks. Do you want to know how network automation can help your business? Keep reading.

Oracle Database is an enterprise multi-model database system capable of handling large amounts of data across multiple database servers with support for a wide variety of workloads. It’s a widely used and proven database software, so we are incredibly pleased to announce that it now has a dedicated cloud integration in Grafana Cloud. With the Oracle Database (OracleDB) integration, you can monitor your database’s performance with ease.

We're thrilled to announce that our customers are once again showing us big love! Splunk has earned twenty-four 2023 Top Rated Awards from TrustRadius. The Top Rated Awards show that we've provided excellent customer satisfaction, proving our credibility and helping buyers make confident technology decisions. These special recognitions are based entirely on reviews and customer sentiment; there is no paid placement or analyst opinion. It's a big (double-dozen) deal!

We are thrilled to unveil our new branding and website, reflecting our commitment to providing engineers with the best monitoring as code (MaC) platform for modern software stacks. Our rebranding efforts signify a new era for Checkly and highlight our commitment to continuous innovation and dedication to enabling a MaC workflow for you and your teams.

One of the most important considerations if you're seeking maximum security for your website is using encryption protocols. You have two choices: SSL (secure sockets layer) and TLS (transport layer security). These commonly used protocols encrypt internet communications and protect sensitive website data from malicious attacks. Let's cover the key differences between SSL and TLS and point you in the right direction for choosing the best protocol for your website.

User management poses a significant challenge to business and IT teams alike. Privacy and compliance regulations necessitate restricted access to critical production environments along with any IT tools used within the organization. When personnel transition to new roles, organizations, or departments that no longer require access to production environments, it is imperative that business and IT teams swiftly remove their permissions to avoid any issues that could arise during audits.

Over the past few years, time series is one of the fastest growing database categories in the world. As more and more organizations realize how critical time series data is to their operations, more database options entered the market. InfluxDB has been the leading time series database for years, and with the release of InfluxDB 3.0, it remains at the vanguard of the time series world.

OpenAI is an AI research and development company whose products include the GPT family of large language models. Since the introduction of GPT-3 in 2020, these models’ fluent and adaptable processing of both natural language and code has propelled their rapid adoption across diverse fields. GPT-4, ChatGPT, and InstructGPT are now used extensively in software development, content creation, and more.