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RapidAPI Review - A Guide On How To Use It

As an all-encompassing marketplace, RapidAPI has become a popular option for developers and vendors alike. So what does it have to offer and how can you harness it effectively to get the most out of its features and benefits? On the surface, the concept of RapidAPI is simple; it aims to act as your one-stop-shop for a wide variety of RESTful APIs which can be deployed to tackle a plethora of potential projects.

Intrusion detection techniques: monitor and react to unusual activity

Security monitoring is a constantly changing area; the threats can appear at any moment; when there are so called 0-day threats, there are quite few techniques available to efficiently prevent an unknown yet type of problem. However, there are typical behavior patterns that can be detected using well-known pieces of software and monitor types. Most techniques mentioned below are related to Unix-like systems; however, exactly the same approaches can be used for every operating system.

They Aren't Pillars, They're Lenses

To have Observability is to have the ability to understand your system’s internal state based on signals and externally-visible output. Honeycomb’s approach to Observability is to strive toward this: every feature of the product attempts to move closer to a unified vision of figuring out what your system did, and how it got there.

OpsQ Recommend Mode: Building Trust When Machines Call The Shots

Learn about OpsQ Recommend Mode, a new feature delivering auto-suggestions for alert escalation policies with OpsRamp’s machine learning algorithms. Recommend Mode builds upon Observed Mode by enabling one-click automation of suggested actions for alert escalation management. You can follow two approaches to use OpsQ Recommend Mode: First-Response and Alert Escalation.

Understanding Element Waterfalls

Website speed and functionality are incredibly important. They directly affect the experience a user has and if they’ll make a purchase, contact the company or simply return again. Understanding Element Waterfalls can help identify issues such as slow load times and poor rendering which can quickly deter a user and impact their trust in your services. RapidSpike Page Performance Monitors (PPMs) load your web pages in real browsers and record Element Waterfalls in order to help find issues.

IT security: Keep calm and monitor PowerShell

In our last release of the PowerShell security series, we talked about how PowerShell could be leveraged by malicious actors to gain unprecedented access to your organization’s critical assets. From enumerating sensitive domain information and carrying out credential-based attacks to running malicious executables in memory (file-less malware), we shined a light on the potential of PowerShell and why it’s an ideal weapon for cyber attackers today.

How SkySilk Cloud Services uses Grafana dashboards

Stefano Mitchell is a customer support engineer at SkySilk Cloud Services. It’s no secret that there is a correlation between a team having quick access to metrics and swift resolutions. Accurate monitoring metrics displayed in a clear and efficient manner help your teams respond to alerts and issues as they arise in real time. SkySilk Cloud Services, a cloud services provider, uses Grafana dashboards internally to maintain a strong overview of regional system health.

Continuous Releases with Travis CI and Sentry

Here at Sentry, we use Travis CI, a continuous integration tool for GitHub that lets us automate our tests and view the results right within each pull request. In this blog post, we’ll walk through a quick example of how to automatically create Sentry Releases with Travis CI when a commit is pushed to your project’s master branch. (Sentry Releases enable some of our best features, like identifying the commits that likely introduced new errors, and much more!)