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ScienceLogic Product Tour: Understanding-and Solving-Root Causes of Risk

As enterprises grow bigger, more sophisticated, and more complex, it can be difficult to detect signs that network reliability is at risk. That’s why the ScienceLogic SL1 AIOps platform uses advanced, real-time analytics to track behavioral correlation and understand issues affecting infrastructure performance—and solve them quickly.

Datadog on Data Engineering Pipelines: Apache Spark at Scale

Datadog is an observability and security platform that ingests and processes tens of trillions of data points per day, coming from more than 22,000 customers. Processing that amount of data in a reasonable time stretches the limits of well known data engines like Apache Spark. In addition to scale, Datadog infrastructure is multi-cloud on Kubernetes and the data engineering platform is used by different engineering teams, so having a good set of abstractions to make running Spark jobs easier is critical.

What are the benefits of log management?

Log management turns the huge volume of raw information created as logs into something usable for an organization's DevOps, IT and security teams. When log management is done correctly, its benefits include: Let’s take a closer look at some of the benefits of log management and how they apply to specific areas.

What is log management, and why is it important?

Logs are like digital footprints or a letter that developers write to themselves for the future. They track every action or event that takes place within your software, applications and IT infrastructures. They provide important information such as when an action took place, host name, type of action, application used and more.

What is a log management tool?

Log management and analysis tools provide you real-time visualization of how your users are interacting with your apps and systems. Many of these log management tools include a sophisticated visual dashboard to immediately analyze data. They also offer your DevSecOps teams deeper insights and possibilities to enhance code quality, boost productivity and reduce risks. What should the best log management tools do for your team to be successful?

ChatGPT praise and trepidation - cyber defense in the age of AI

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, so much so that we are all left guessing how far this will go. And it’s not a trivial question, as it relates to the future of humanity itself. On one extreme, technology is increasing rapidly enough to synthesize some of the most fundamental parts of our existence—communicating naturally with one another. That can be a scary thought.

How to get the client IP in ASP.NET Core even behind a proxy

Part of implementing an error monitoring platform like elmah.io is dealing with the IP addresses of the clients generating errors. In this post, I'll show you parts of how we have implemented this in ASP.NET Core, to make sure that different hosting scenarios still produce the correct IP address. Let's jump right in. ASP.NET Core supports getting the client IP directly on the HttpContext object available throughout various places.

Top 25 Server Monitoring Tools

By implementing a server monitoring tool, you can keep better track of your entire IT infrastructure, and make sure your servers aren’t experiencing downtime. If downtime does occur, server monitoring tools like ours at Dotcom-Monitor will act to alert you to issues so you can your team can take prompt action and minimize impact for your users, in addition to identifying the root cause of the problem to avoid further unplanned downtime.