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Taming Your Dynatrace Bill: How to Cut Observability Costs, Not Visibility

Dynatrace is a powerhouse for application performance monitoring and business analytics. But for many organizations, its power comes with a significant challenge: as applications scale across complex hybrid environments and diverse tech stacks, the sheer volume and variety of logs, metrics, and traces sent to the platform can explode, leading to staggering and unpredictable costs.

Zero Trust Starts with Zero Blind Spots

Zero Trust is more than a buzzword in today’s cybersecurity playbook, it’s a strategic imperative. Federal agencies, defense operations, and civilian infrastructure providers are all under mounting pressure to deploy Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) frameworks that are not only compliant but truly effective. But there’s a problem: Zero Trust can only succeed if it’s built on real-time, actionable insight. That means eliminating blind spots.

Throughput Upgrade (With Train Illustrations!)

URLs) receive spiky traffic:. The Healthchecks open-source project includes a fully functional, tested and type-annotated ping handler written in Python. On self-hosted Healthchecks instances, when you send an HTTP request to a ping URL, a Django view collects and validates information from the request, then uses Django ORM to update a Check object in the database and insert a Ping object in the database. This approach is good for tens to low hundreds of requests per second, depending on hardware.

The Benefits of Visibility in Higher Education Networks

Higher education institutions face unique cybersecurity challenges due to their complex networks, diverse user base and open academic environments. With thousands of students, staff and faculty members accessing resources from various locations and devices, universities must have visibility of what’s happening on their networks and robust and responsive cybersecurity protection to help safeguard them.

Integration Spotlight: Smarter Security Operations with Microsoft Sentinel + Observo AI

Microsoft Sentinel is a popular cloud-native SIEM, offering tight integration across Azure services, native machine learning models, and the scalability of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. It enables real-time threat detection and response across hybrid environments, making it a go-to solution for many enterprises embracing the Microsoft ecosystem. But like all modern SIEMs, Sentinel is only as effective as the data it ingests.

What is Java Performance Monitoring? [A Guide to DevOps Engineers]

You rolled out a Java application that worked fine in development. Fast, clean, no errors. However, once it went into production, things began to change. Suddenly, the app feels slow. CPU usage climbs without warning. Some users start getting timeouts. You check the dashboards, but nothing jumps out. You look through the logs, but it's mostly noise. And then the questions start coming in - "Is the JVM the problem?" If you've been in that situation, you're not alone.

Advanced Proactive SSL Certificate Monitoring

eG Enterprise version 7.5 introduces advanced capabilities for detailed SSL Certificate Monitoring including monitoring for web servers and apps using SSL. Monitoring SSL certificates is essential to ensure secure connections, prevent service outages, and maintain user trust. Here are a few things you need to monitor and questions you should ask to keep your services and apps running reliably and securely.

Securely query data sources on your Tailscale network using Private Data Source Connect in Grafana Cloud

Balancing security with your observability needs can be a difficult task. We know our users want to leverage platforms like Grafana Cloud to visualize and gain valuable insights into their data, while also keeping their data sources private and secure.