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Common API Vulnerabilities and How to Secure Them

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become a critical part of almost every business. APIs are responsible for transferring information between systems within a company or to external companies. For example, when you log in to a website like Google or Facebook, an API processes your login credentials to verify they are correct.

Modeling and Unifying DevOps Data

“How can we turn our DevOps data into useful DevSecOps data? There is so much of it! It can come from anywhere! It’s in all sorts of different formats!” While these statements are all true, there are some similarities in different parts of the DevOps lifecycle that can be used to make sense of and unify all of that data. How can we bring order to this data chaos? The same way scientists study complex phenomena — by making a conceptual model of the data.

13 Best Cloud Cost Management Tools in 2023

Businesses are increasingly turning to cloud computing to drive innovation, scalability, and cost efficiencies. For many, managing cloud costs becomes a complex and daunting task, especially as organizations scale their cloud infrastructure and workloads. In turn, cloud cost management tools can help teams gain better visibility, control, and cost optimization of their cloud spending. These tools not only provide comprehensive solutions to track and analyze, they also optimize cloud expenses.

Understanding and Optimizing CI/CD Pipelines

Building, testing and deploying software is a time-consuming process that many organizations aim to minimize by automating repeatable work wherever possible. To do so, many organizations are utilizing a continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD) philosophy in combination with cloud native tools like Kubernetes to develop and deploy software at scale.

IDC Market Perspective published on the Elastic AI Assistant

IDC published a Market Perspective report discussing implementations to leverage Generative AI. The report calls out the Elastic AI Assistant, its value, and the functionality it provides. Of the various AI Assistants launched across the industry, many of them have not been made available to the broader practitioner ecosystem and therefore have not been tested. With Elastic AI Assistant, we’ve scaled out of that trend to provide working capabilities now.

Cloud Observability: Unlocking Performance, Cost, and Security in Your Environment

A robust observability strategy forms the backbone of a successful cloud environment. By understanding cloud observability and its benefits, businesses gain the ability to closely monitor and comprehend the health and performance of various systems, applications, and services in use. This becomes particularly critical in the context of cloud computing. The resources and services are hosted in the cloud and accessed through different tools and interfaces.

4 Reasons MSPs Should Be Using Cybersecurity Frameworks

Cybercriminals have become increasingly sophisticated, employing aggressive and ever-changing techniques to breach small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). These attacks are on the rise, posing a significant threat to organizations that lack robust cybersecurity measures. Hackers are relentless in their efforts to exploit vulnerabilities in SMBs’ systems, often due to their comparatively weaker security infrastructure.

Synced for Success: OnPage & Slack for Incident Response

As the post-pandemic world finds its footing again, a resilient spirit drives the revival, propelling businesses to embrace a new era of technological innovation. Notably, IT teams are swiftly adopting the digital transformation of their processes, particularly in incident response. From virtual collaboration tools and remote IT support to automated incident management, teams have found innovative ways to ensure seamless business continuity while delivering IT services with minimum downtimes.

Managing Prometheus cardinality in Grafana Cloud: Adaptive Metrics FAQ

One of the most talked about topics in observability today is centered around the question of how to get more value out of the ever-increasing amount of data collected by agents, collectors, scrapers, and the like. Back in May, we announced Adaptive Metrics, a new feature in Grafana Cloud that allows you to reduce the cardinality of Prometheus metrics and the overall volume and costs of your metrics.

Scaling Up to Keep Costs Down: Automation for Web Application Incident Management

Any organization that’s keeping up with today’s sharp rise in business demands (or better yet, getting ahead of the game) is doing so by getting innovative and jumping at the chance to do things differently. They’re not relying on the old ways or trying to use their existing toolbox. Instead, organizations are looking to the newest technologies and means of adding efficiency to as many day-to-day functions as possible.