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Find out which of your employees pose the greatest security risk

Among the different types of cyberattacks, insider threats are the hardest to track and have the highest rate of success. This can be attributed to their use, or rather misuse, of legitimate credentials, machines, and access privileges. Traditional SIEM solutions use simple rule-based alerting to detect potential insider threats, which cannot analyze user behavior or detect any anomalies therein.

Performance Marketing Company Replaces In-House Business Monitoring System With Anodot

In performance marketing, KPIs are directly proportional to revenue. Avantis is a performance marketing company that, prior to Anodot, had used a variety of in-house monitoring solutions and SAS tools to monitor the KPIs that drove their business. But they found their top metrics, such as impressions, clicks, click-through rate (CTR) and postbacks, were often much different than their publishers’.

Website Performance Monitoring: 5 Things You Need to Know

Digital experience relies heavily on the performance of your website, its servers, and your applications. The user experience is most impacted by load time or responsiveness. The fastest applications usually win the day, but there’s more to website performance monitoring than simply measuring speed. Website performance monitoring looks holistically at your site or application.

CloudWatch Logs for AWS Lambda: Getting Insights About Your Serverless Deployment

In our last post, we covered CloudWatch Metrics in a great deal of detail. We looked at how we can use it to monitor the health of our Lambda functions, including setting up service dashboards as well as alerts. In this post, we will focus on its sister service – CloudWatch Logs. We’ll see how it works and how to get the most out of it.

Understand Your AWS Cost & Usage with Honeycomb

AWS bills are notoriously complicated, and the Amazon Cost Explorer doesn’t always make it easy to understand exactly where your money is going. When we embarked on our journey to reduce our AWS bill, we wanted more than just the Cost Explorer to help us figure out where to optimize — and when all you have is a hammer, every problem sure looks like it can be solved with Honeycomb!

[OpsComm July] Helping Technology and Solution Partners Deliver Greater Customer Value with OpsRamp's New Partner Program

In July 2019, OpsRamp launched the new Partner Program to help reseller, service provider, and system integration partners build expertise around multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring and modern incident management. July was also a month of industry recognition, with CRN naming OpsRamp as an emerging vendor in the Cloud category. Our resident experts continued to contribute to industry publications with several articles and podcasts.

Ask Us Anything: Your Questions about MySQL, Elasticsearch, Grafana, and More

The Grafana Labs community has more than 600 developers around the world who contribute to our open source projects. From time to time, they also ask really great questions about how to get started in Grafana, how to solve an issue, or how to implement best practices for various functions. Here are three questions that have gotten some of the most clicks on the Grafana community board – and the answers from Grafana Labs’ Director of Software Engineering, Daniel Lee.