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February 2025

Using observability tools for security monitoring and incident detection

Most security teams overlook a goldmine of data sitting right in their applications — crash reports and Real User Monitoring (RUM) telemetry. While engineers typically use these tools for performance tracking, they can reveal security incidents that might otherwise go unnoticed. Let’s explore some practical ways to turn your observability data into a powerful security monitoring system. I’ll help create a table of contents in the requested format based on the headings in the article.
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Top 10 .NET exceptions (part one)

Exception handling is essential to.NET development, but not all exceptions are equal. Some, like NullReferenceException, surprise developers with unclear stack traces and production crashes. Others, such as MySQLException or HttpRequestException, often point to issues like resource mismanagement or network failures. At Raygun, we've worked with teams around the world to monitor and fix software issues, giving us deep insight into how exceptions occur and how to handle them effectively.

Introducing Raygun CLI: Level-up your error tracking workflow

Raygun CLI is a powerful command-line interface tool designed to enhance the developer experience when working with Raygun’s error tracking and performance monitoring platform. With this tool, we bring Raygun’s features directly to your terminal, making it easier to integrate some important elements of Raygun Crash Reporting and error tracking into your development and CI/CD workflow. We are excited to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of Raygun CLI.