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How SSL Certificate Monitoring Ensures Brand Trust and Credibility

See that little padlock icon to the left of our URL in the address bar? That shows the website is protected by an SSL certificate. It's a great way to tell potential customers that your brand is trustworthy. But if you don't keep an eye on the status of your SSL certificates, there can be serious consequences for your website and your reputation. In this post, we'll explore how SSL certificate monitoring works, how it affects brand trust and credibility, and how to do it right.

How to use text box variables in Grafana dashboards

Text box variables let users type whatever they want -- great for text filtering and searching! In this video we'll look at how to use text box variables in Grafana dashboards. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

Apache Kafka Tiered Storage in Depth: How Writes and Metadata Flow

The idea behind KIP-405 is to simply store most of the cluster’s data in another service. As we covered in detail in the last article - it’s a simple-sounding idea that goes a very long way. This other server where the data gets stored is pluggable. KIP-405 was designed in such a way to make Kafka seamlessly extensible to store its data in any kind of external store through a solid interface.

2025 OneDrive Licensing Changes

Microsoft recently announced significant changes to its OneDrive licensing and storage policies, affecting organizations that heavily rely on cloud storage solutions. Starting January 27, 2025, unlicensed OneDrive accounts—those without assigned user licenses—will be automatically archived after 93 days, rendering them inaccessible unless covered by retention policies or legal holds.

Using Azure Blob Storage for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise

InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise introduce a powerful new diskless architecture that lets you store your time series data in cloud object storage while running the database engine locally. This approach offers significant advantages: you get the performance of a local database combined with the durability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud storage. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to set up InfluxDB 3 Core or Enterprise with Azure Blob Storage as your object store.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Choose an ERP System for Construction

In today's competitive construction industry, business owners and managers are faced with a ton of challenges, ranging from managing project scope to delivering projects on time and within budget. Effective resource allocation, maintaining control over finances, and improving coordination among teams hold the key to success. A very effective tool that has been helping companies in leveling their processes and minimizing gaps in productivity is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.