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Top tips: 3 ways to protect your business from disinformation campaigns

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll look at three steps a business can take to protect themselves from disinformation. Over the past three years, your two-person startup has gained enough traction to turn into a 500-employee business. Your life’s work is materializing in front of your eyes, and it’s only uphill from here.

DataDog vs Prometheus [2025 comparison]

DataDog and Prometheus are both popular monitoring solutions used to collect and analyze metrics and monitor the performance of systems, but Prometheus is open source and Datadog is proprietary. Datadog provides a unified platform for monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing modern cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Prometheus is the most popular tool for monitoring time series metrics. So, how to choose between Datadog and Prometheus?

How to Use Static Thresholds for Effective Alerts in Splunk Observability Cloud

In this video, we explore the concept of static thresholds, which are a foundational tool in your observability alerting solution. You’ll learn: Additionally, we will demonstrate static thresholds in Splunk Observability Cloud. We’ll configure a static threshold for AWS EC2 memory utilization. We’ll also look at additional threshold settings like trigger sensitivity and duration. By the end of this video, you'll have the knowledge to effectively incorporate static thresholds into your observability strategy.

The importance of understanding and observing an application's middle-tier components

Just like how the filling makes a sandwich, an application's performance is closely tied to how effectively its middle-tier components function. While the front-end is what users see and interact with (UI), and the back-end deals with data storage, the middle tier forms the vital core where the real magic happens—processing, logic implementation, and enforcement of business rules.

Democratizing Access to Network Telemetry with Kentik Journeys

In this post, discover how Kentik Journeys integrates large language models to revolutionize network observability. By enabling anyone in IT to query and analyze network telemetry in plain language, regardless of technical expertise, Kentik breaks down silos and democratizes access to critical insights simplifying complex workflows, enhancing collaboration, and ensuring secure, real-time access to your network data.

CloudWatch Metrics: Key Features, Working & Cost Management

When it comes to monitoring and managing applications and infrastructure on AWS, CloudWatch Metrics is your best friend. CloudWatch helps you track key metrics in real time, providing the data you need to maintain system performance, troubleshoot issues, and gain deeper insights into your environment. But like most things in AWS, it can take some getting used to. To help you make the most of CloudWatch Metrics, we've put together this comprehensive guide.