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10 Best Apache Log Analyzers: Free & Paid Tools [2023 Comparison]

Apache is the second most popular web server, after …., with its roots and official release going back as far as 1995. Throughout the years, it gained features, including HTTP/2, caching, and many more, while retaining its most appreciated capabilities: speed, modularity, and great stability. To fully leverage its features, you need to understand the environment, bottlenecks, traffic and user behavior. Just like with every software inside your infrastructure, Apache is no different.

Empowering SecOps Admins: Getting the Most Value from CrowdStrike FDR Data with Cribl Stream

Join Ed Bailey and Sidd Shah as they discuss how Cribl Stream can empower Security Operations Admins to make the most of their CrowdStrike FDR data. During the discussion, Ed and Sidd will address the challenges faced by CrowdStrike customers who generate a vast amount of valuable data each day but struggle to leverage it fully due to complexity and size. They will explain how Cribl Stream can help SecOps admins extract the right data for their SIEM, while moving the rest to their Security Data Lake, enabling them to get the maximum value from their data and be cost-effective at the same time.

Introducing Session Replay from Sentry: Bridge the Gap between Code and UX

You know that annoying bug? The one that doesn’t show up locally? And no matter how many times you try to recreate the environment you can’t reproduce it? You’ve gone through the breadcrumbs, read through the stack trace, and are now playing detective to piece together support tickets to make sure it’s real. To get to the root cause faster - without rolling your head on your keyboard - we built Session Replay, now generally available for all web-based platforms.

You can now add tags to your sites

Some of our users have a lot of sites in their Oh Dear account. A feature often requested is the ability to add a little bit of meta information about each site. To do that, we've introduced the ability to add tags to a site. Tags can be used for instance how important it is to fix a problem with the site immediately. Possible tags could be important or has support contract. Another use case would be to add the technology used, tags could be named wordpress, laravel, js.

eG Enterprise rated the No. 1 APM Tool for Customer Experience by SoftwareReviews

The reviews are in! We are thrilled that eG Enterprise has been recognized by SoftwareReviews, a division of Info-Tech Research Group, as a Champion in the 2023 Application Performance Management – Enterprise (APM) Tools Emotional Footprint Buyer’s Guide. Moreover, eG Enterprise APM was ranked in the top spot out of 14 vendor solutions.

"I can now sleep at night." How Corevist Achieved Single-Pane-of-Glass Observability

In October 2022, we released SolarWinds® Observability, our cloud-native SaaS observability solution. For companies like Corevist, the solution provided them with the ability to define customized monitoring specifically configured to the Corevist instances within each customer deployment. For them, this was a major game changer.

Why Uptime Monitoring Is Essential for Your Business

Website downtime is a serious concern for businesses as it directly impacts the bottom line and can cause significant downstream effects as users turn to alternatives. You and your team can spend hundreds of hours to improve your websites, add new features, and create great content. If your website comes down at a critical moment, these efforts are wasted and users are left wondering about your business’ ability to function in the digital world.

The Consolidation of Networking Tasks in Engineering

In recent years, the rapid development of cloud-based networking, network abstractions such as SD-WAN, and controller-based campus networking has meant that basic, day-to-day network operations have become easier for non-network engineers. The result we’re starting to see today is a sort of consolidation of networking tasks, leading to a need for only a small number of highly skilled network engineers to handle the less frequent heavy lifting of advanced design and troubleshooting.

Webinar Recap: Observability Data Orchestration

Today, businesses are generating more data than ever before. However, with this data explosion comes a new set of challenges, including increased complexity, higher costs, and difficulty extracting value. With this in mind, how can organizations effectively manage this data to extract value and solve the challenges of the modern data stack?