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Within distributed applications, data moves across many loosely connected endpoints, microservices, and teams, making it difficult to know when services are storing—or inadvertently leaking—sensitive data. This is especially true for governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) or other security teams working for enterprises in highly regulated industries, such as healthcare, banking, insurance, and financial services.

Recently, I explored the case for Graylog as an outstanding means of aggregating the specialized training data needed to build a successful, customized artificial intelligence (AI) project. Well, that’s true, of course. My larger point, though, was that Graylog is a powerful and flexible solution applicable to a very broad range of use cases (of which AI development is just one).

The Telegraf 1.20.3 release changed the official Telegraf DockerHub image to no longer run the Telegraf service as root. With this change, the Telegraf service runs with the least amount of privileges in the container to enhance security given the wide extensibility and array of plugins available in Telegraf.

This article was written by Nicolas Bohorquez and was originally published in The New Stack. Scroll below for the author’s picture and bio. Telegraf is the preferred way to collect data for InfluxDB. Though in some use cases, client libraries are better, such as when parsing a stream of server-side events. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to read a data stream, store it as a time series into InfluxDB and run queries over the data using InfluxDB’s JavaScript client library.

If your company works with the US Department of Defense (DoD) as a contractor or subcontractor, you will need to prepare to meet CMMC requirements in order to successfully bid on and win contracts. This recent development has been a significant adjustment for small organisations who wish to work with or continue working with the DoD.

I am honored to be able to talk about Splunk’s investment and commitment to the OpenTelemetry project. I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the latest in the OpenTelemetry community, as well as the instrumentation and data collection distributions available from Splunk. Be sure to read through the whole post, as you will find some roadmap information too!

Grafana Labs recently hosted its first company-wide hackathon, and we joined forces with Björn “Beorn” Rabenstein to bring sparse high-resolution histograms in Prometheus TSDB into a working prototype. The Prometheus TSDB has gained experimental support to store and retrieve these new sparse high-resolution histograms. At PromCon 2021, we presented our exciting, fresh-off-the-presses results from the ongoing project.