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Microsoft Sentinel Cost Optimization with Staged Routes and Commit Processors

As security data volumes grow, so do the costs of processing and storing them. Microsoft Sentinel and other SIEM platforms charge based on data ingestion, which makes every decision about normalization rules critical and every duplicate log a direct expense. Enterprise-scale security data pipelines face a persistent problem: data duplication across normalization tiers. As logs move through multiple transformation stages, it’s often impossible to know in advance which version will succeed.

Rollbar Debugging with ChatGPT using Service Links

In this guide, we will walk you through how to add a service link that connects directly to the Rollbar Debugging Assistant—our ChatGPT-powered tool that helps you quickly analyze and debug an occurrence’s raw.json without needing access to your code repository. The Rollbar Debugging Assistant makes it easier and faster to understand what went wrong in a specific error occurrence.

Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video

In this edition of Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge, we look at Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video. Based on traffic stats, TNF is the most watched program on the streaming service. Using Kentik’s OTT capabilities, we’ll see how this program gets delivered and how that has changed over 11 weeks of the NFL season.

SaaS Monitoring Best Practices

SaaS Monitoring is the process of continuously tracking the performance, availability, and reliability of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to ensure they operate efficiently and deliver the best possible user experience. In an era where organizations depend heavily on cloud-based tools for communication, project management, and analytics, maintaining optimal SaaS performance is more critical than ever.

Smart Home Monitoring with InfluxDB 3, Google Nest, and Grafana

Your smart home devices generate vast amounts of scattered data—this tutorial shows you how to centralize it into a unified platform using InfluxDB 3 and Grafana. You’ll not only track your home’s vital signs but also learn professional software development concepts, such as time series database design and building resilient data pipelines, applicable to various monitoring and analytics systems. Before we begin, ensure you have.

Ipl-html: Introducing new Form Element Decorators

Decorators have always been a powerful concept in Icinga Web’s form system — letting developers control how form elements are displayed without hardcoding markup everywhere. But until recently, the decorator system had its limits. The new implementation of form element decorators completely reimagines this approach, offering cleaner logic and better flexibility. In this article, we’ll explore what’s new, why it’s better, and how to use it effectively in your own forms.

What is OpenTelemetry? [Everything You Need to Know]

Observability used to be a fragmented mess. You had one agent for logs, a different library for metrics, and a proprietary SDK for distributed tracing. If you wanted to switch vendors, you had to rewrite your instrumentation code from scratch. OpenTelemetry (OTel) fixed this. It has become the second most active project in the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), right behind Kubernetes.

Beginner's Guide to OpenTelemetry & Django (2025)

Django is a popular open-source "batteries-included" Python web framework that enables rapid development while taking out much of the hassle from routine web development. By providing pre-built components like ORM integrations, authentication/authorization systems and more, it enables developers to focus on business logic and iterate fast. As such, developers and organizations worldwide use Django to build web apps of varying complexities.

How MSPs can simplify multi-cloud cost management for their customers

Multi-cloud cost management has quickly evolved from a nice-to-have capability to a core expectation with the accelerated adoption of the cloud. Organizations that depend on managed service providers (MSPs) for cloud operations now look to them for financial clarity as well. Now, MSPs are not only expected to monitor and manage cloud usage, but also to act as trusted cost advisors. They must deliver transparency, predictability, and strong governance across all the cloud environments their customers use.

FinOps Strategy for Hybrid IT: Interview with Tim Conley

FinOps continues to grow in importance as organizations balance cloud services with on-prem systems, legacy applications, and evolving business demands. Many teams want to manage their costs more effectively but are unsure how to apply a FinOps strategy for hybrid IT outside the cloud.