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Grafana Labs' new AI-powered chatbot

Oct 12, 2023 By Grafana In Grafana
Got questions about Grafana? Just ask Grot, Grafana's new AI-powered chatbot (still in beta). Built in partnership with Pal, a company that creates AI assistants for businesses, and inspired by our bulbous dino mascot, Grot the chatbot has been trained with large language models (LLM) on Grafana Labs’ own content. It can help you easily answer just about any question about our Grafana LGTM Stack, our open and composable hosted Grafana Cloud platform, and more — regardless of how narrow or broad the query might be or what language is set in your browser.
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Pepperdata

Why is Spark So Slow? 5 Ways to Optimize Spark Today

Oct 12, 2023 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
When Apache Spark works well, it works really well. Sometimes, though, users find themselves asking this frustrating question. Spark is such a popular large-scale data processing framework because it is capable of performing more computations and carrying out more stream processing than many other data processing solutions. Compared to popular conventional systems like MapReduce, Spark is 10-100x faster.
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Cribl

The Quest to Process Microsoft Windows Event Logs in Snare Format with Cribl

Oct 12, 2023 By Brendan Dalpe In Cribl

One of the things I really love about working for Cribl is the ability to help our customers optimize their data. Microsoft Windows Event Logs are something I have always looked to as a proverbial Rosetta Stone to help translate semi-structured, classic-style events into something more efficient and less resource-intensive to search. Extracting field values requires a large number of regular expressions to parse the events, which isn’t ideal.

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IT vs Security - When Hackers Patch for Profit | Ep.31 Security Insights Podcasts

Oct 12, 2023 By Ivanti In Ivanti
Welcome to Security Insights: where best-practice cybersecurity meets the real-world risks, workplaces, and roadblocks you face every day. Join Chris Goettl, head of Endpoint Security Product Management, and Ashley Stryker, your cybersecurity "rubber duck", as they review the security strategies and tactics that truly matter to the information security teams protecting organizations, agencies, and businesses like yours.
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Micro Product Demo: Ivanti Neurons for Patch Management

Oct 12, 2023 By Ivanti In Ivanti
Ivanti Neurons for Patch Management enables you to prioritize and patch vulnerabilities based on active risk exposure, patch reliability, and device compliance, health and risk from a single web interface. In this video we take a firsthand look at this cloud-native patch management solution and its key features and capabilities that help you better protect against data breaches, ransomware and other threats that stem from software vulnerabilities.
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Practical Demo: Protect all endpoints with secure UEM countermeasures

Oct 12, 2023 By Ivanti In Ivanti
Deploying a diverse mix of endpoints – from iOS, Android and macOS, to Windows, ChromeOS and IoT – leads to a diverse mix of security risks. Fighting those risks is nearly impossible with siloed point products, especially when your data is disparate and processes are disjointed. Join this practical demo for your dose of insider tips from our endpoint management and security experts, and experience how integrated tools minimize security risks that stem from all sorts of endpoints.
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Webinar: The Top 5 Use Cases for Internal Developer Portals

Oct 12, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
Internal developer portals (IDPs) have received a lot of attention lately. Internal Developer Portals serve as the engineering system of record—providing developers with the context and tools they need to ensure services and resources they own align with best practices for deployment readiness, operational maturity, security compliance, and more. But they do more than just act as a system of record for your whole stack. They also help drive alignment, improve MTTR, and can even reduce cloud spend.
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metricfire

Kafka Monitoring Using Prometheus

Oct 12, 2023 By Madhur Ahuja In MetricFire

In this article, we are going to discuss how to set up Kafka monitoring using Prometheus. Kafka is one of the most widely used streaming platforms, and Prometheus is a popular way to monitor Kafka. We will use Prometheus to pull metrics from Kafka and then visualize the important metrics on a Grafana dashboard. We will also look at some of the challenges of running a self-hosted Prometheus and Grafana instance versus the Hosted Grafana offered by MetricFire.

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