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Practical Tips for Choosing the Right Virtualization Platform

Virtualization solutions have emerged as one of the defining elements of contemporary IT environments due to the efficiency, scalability, and flexibility they provide in terms of hardware utilization. Yet, choosing the correct virtualization platform can be challenging because many solutions are available on the market. Below is a checklist that will assist you in making the best decision for your organization.

The Power of Incident Timelines in Crisis Management

Effective crisis management hinges on timely and structured responses. The ability to track, analyze, and refine an incident response timeline is essential for minimizing downtime, mitigating damage, and fostering organizational resilience. Understanding the pivotal role that timelines play in crisis scenarios enhances your organization’s incident response life cycle and streamlines the entire incident response process.

New Microsoft ILogger integration with Raygun

That’s a wrap on Raygun’s 12 Days of Christmas 2024! Over the past two weeks, we’ve rolled out daily updates featuring bug fixes and feature improvements inspired by your feedback. These small but mighty changes are all about making Raygun faster, smoother, and easier to use. Thanks for helping us level up—your input makes all the difference. Our special thanks to Blair from New Zealand who suggested this great idea!

Balancing Standardization & Customization: Tailoring Security Monitoring to Your Unique Environment

So you’ve gone ahead and ingested every log you can think of and built a plethora of detections in line with frameworks and best practices. You may have even dabbled into custom alerts built from your own internal assessments and findings. Or maybe it’s the opposite; you’re still early in your journey toward security maturity or logging new or custom applications without much guidance. It can be hard to feel truly comfortable with your environment’s security in both situations. Standards are good but can be too noisy and restrictive in some places and too quiet or permissive in others.

Amazon Cognito outage: How StatusGator notified customers 30 minutes before Amazon did

On December 12, 2024, Amazon Cognito experienced a significant outage in the US-EAST-1 (N. Virginia) region, impacting authentication for numerous applications. This operational issue, caused by a configuration change deployment, led to widespread “TooManyRequestsException” errors for several hours. Many Amazon Cognito users were left scrambling to figure out why their application was down, why users could authenticate, and how to get back up and running.

What is API Monitoring? How It Works, Benefits, & Best Practices

API Monitoring is the process of continuously observing and testing APIs to ensure they perform as expected, maintain uptime, and deliver the desired functionality. This includes tracking metrics such as API availability, uptime, latency, and response times. Whether you’re dealing with a REST API, a web API, or a microservices architecture, it’s important to understand that monitoring is essential for detecting issues before they impact end-users.