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The Platform Engineer Role Explained: Who Is a Platform Engineer?

May 5, 2023 By Laiba Siddiqui In Splunk
Poorly designed infrastructure leaves your applications and networks vulnerable to cyberattacks and data breaches. This puts the company at significant risk: the average cost of a data breach reached a record high $4.35 million in 2022. This is where companies bring in platform engineers. A platform engineer is a professional who ensures that security protocols and best practices are in place to protect against potential security threats.
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What Is Prompt Engineering? Strategies for Creating Effective AI Inputs

May 5, 2023 By Kayly Lange In Splunk
The release of ChatGPT in November of 2022 elicited excitement from all corners of the internet. It could write code, diagnose patients, ace exams, write books and more — all in a matter of seconds. Yet, many people were left underwhelmed by the results. Inputting “write a blog post about…” resulted in bland and formulaic articles no one wanted to read. The AI doomers could breathe a sigh of relief as it became apparent AI wasn’t coming for tech jobs any time soon.
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Simplifying Agent Management

May 5, 2023 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
BindPlane OP helps with fleet management in being able to show all of your agents, versions, configs, and amount of data passing through in a single plane. With additional features such as bulk select one can easily manage agents updating all at once.#telemetry #opensource #observability About ObservIQ: observIQ is developing the unified telemetry platform: a fast, powerful and intuitive next-generation platform built for the modern observability team. Rooted in OpenTelemetry, our platform is designed to help teams reduce, simplify, and standardize their observability data.
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Deciphering Complex Logs With Regex Using BindPlane OP and OpenTelemetry

May 4, 2023 By Dylan Myers In ObservIQ
Parsing logs with regex is a valuable technique for extracting essential information from large volumes of log data. By employing this method, one can effectively identify patterns, errors, and other key insights, ultimately streamlining log analysis and enhancing system performance.
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Cribl

Strengthen Your Security Strategy to Safeguard Against Migrations Risks

May 4, 2023 By Ed Bailey In Cribl

In part 1 of this post, we talked about how Cribl is empowering security functions by giving our customers freedom of choice and control over their data. This post focuses on their experiences and the benefits they are getting from our suite of products. In a past life, I was in charge of security and operational logging at Transunion — around 2015, things started going crazy.

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How to use Elasticsearch and Time Series Data Streams for observability metrics

May 4, 2023 By Nicolas Ruflin In Elastic

Elasticsearch is used for a wide variety of data types — one of these is metrics. With the introduction of Metricbeat many years ago and later our APM Agents, the metric use case has become more popular. Over the years, Elasticsearch has made many improvements on how to handle things like metrics aggregations and sparse documents. At the same time, TSVB visualizations were introduced to make visualizing metrics easier.

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