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Bringing GitLab Logs into Focus with Graylog

GitLab’s audit logs offer a goldmine of insights into user activity, project changes, and security events. Getting that data into Graylog for centralized analysis is easier than you might think—especially with the flexibility of our Raw HTTP input and Illuminate’s GitLab Spotlight Pack. In this two-part guide, we’ll walk you through how to get it done, from wiring up GitLab’s Audit Event Streaming to visualizing enriched events in a purpose-built dashboard.

Common Network Switch Issues & How to Fix Them

As a network admin, you're probably all too familiar with the importance of your network switches. These devices keep the heart of your network beating by connecting various devices, from computers to printers, and ensuring data flows smoothly. However, switches, like any hardware, come with their own set of issues that can disrupt productivity and cause headaches if not addressed promptly.

Mistakes To Avoid With Your Public Status Page

A public status page forms the public face of your organization's service availability. It is the first point of contact for your customers to check the status of your services during times of crisis. Hence, ensuring the credibility and uptime of your public status page is crucial to your organization's reputation. In this article we will look at the key mistakes to avoid while hosting and managing a public status page.

Maximizing Peering Through Flow Analysis

Discover how to use flow data to pinpoint your most valuable traffic, identify missing peer opportunities, and make smarter peering choices across your internet exchanges. In previous peering blogs, we’ve shared how you can maximize the value of your connection to an IX by peering with the IX route servers, and identify and contact specific peers via bilateral sessions.

Scout Gives Cookpad Actionable, Rails-Specific Performance Insights

For more than a decade, Cookpad, a global platform for recipe sharing and search, has relied on APM tools to monitor critical application performance metrics, like server response times and resource usage. When their previous APM tool became too expensive after price increases, they needed to find a new solution that could check all of their boxes.

Architecting for Value: A Playbook for Sustainable Observability

You’ve built something amazing. Your services are scaling, your users are happy, and your team is shipping code like never before. Then the cloud bill arrives, and one line item makes your eyes water: observability. That Datadog invoice feels less like a utility bill and more like a ransom note. It’s a modern engineering paradox. The tools that give you sight into your complex systems are the same ones that can blind you with runaway costs.

AIOps in 2025: 4 Components and 4 Key Capabilities

AIOps, or Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations, is the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate and improve IT operations. It combines big data analytics, AI, and machine learning to monitor, manage, and optimize IT environments, enabling organizations to proactively detect, diagnose, and resolve issues more efficiently than traditional methods.

Payment Orchestration: Leveraging AI for Smarter Payment Routing and Fraud Prevention

The digital payment landscape has undergone a remarkable transformation with the integration of artificial intelligence technologies. Modern businesses face the challenge of managing complex payment ecosystems while maintaining security and customer satisfaction. Payment orchestration emerges as the solution that bridges this gap, creating unified systems from fragmented payment infrastructures.

What's the Difference Between a Vulnerability Scan and a Penetration Test?

You want to secure your systems, that's a good first step. But then you're told you need a vulnerability scan. Or maybe a pen test. Maybe both? They sound similar, but they aren't the same thing. In fact, they serve very different purposes. Understanding the difference could save your team from false confidence, wasted money, or security gaps you never saw coming. If you're trying to figure out what's right for your business, this breakdown should help. And once you're running tests, tools likepentest reporting at Cyver Core help your team stay organized and actually fix what matters.

Balancing Feature Development and Bug Fixes in High-Pressure Projects: Insights from a Senior Software Engineer

Software engineering is not only about solving problems but it also about creating lasting value. Engineers constantly judge the demands of developing innovative features with the urgent need to resolve bugs, especially in high-pressure scenarios where deadlines loom large and resources are stretched thin. Maksim Lykov, a Software Engineer with six years of experience leading critical projects in global tech firms, offers valuable insights into these challenges. In this interview, he shares strategies, best practices, and philosophies to help teams not just survive but thrive under pressure.