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Webinar Recap: Taming Data Complexity at Scale

As a Senior Product Manager at Mezmo, I understand the challenges businesses face in managing data complexity and the higher costs that come with it. The explosion of data in the digital age has made it difficult for IT operations teams to control this data and deliver it across teams to serve a range of use cases, from troubleshooting issues in development to responding quickly to security threats and beyond.

CDMs for Enterprise Data: Canonical Data Model Explained

On their own, enterprise applications and systems are not always straightforward. Writ large, they are complex, integrated environments, full of multiple data formats and structures. You spend a great deal of effort and time to define and maintain diverse data models among these integrated components. A Canonical Data Model helps reduce that burden significantly — by promoting a standard and consistent data model between connecting components. This article describes a few things to get you started.

Using Cribl Search for Anomaly Detection: Finding Statistical Outliers in Host CPU Busy Percentage

In this video, we'll demonstrate how to use Cribl Search for anomaly detection by finding statistical outliers in host CPU usage. By monitoring the "CPU Busy" metric, we can identify unusual spikes that may indicate malware penetration or high load/limiting conditions on customer-facing hosts. The best part? This simple but powerful analytic is easily adaptable to other metrics, making it a versatile tool for any data-driven organization.

E-Commerce and Log Management

As an e-commerce website owner you care about how your customers behave: why do they come to your website, which items or services are they most interested in, how much time do they spend on certain pages, and is their user experience above par? Also, it is very important to keep your website secure, as you can rest assured that no one wants to leave their payment details on an unsecured website.