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If you attended.conf21, or followed any Splunk blogs by Lizzy Li for the past year, then you likely have heard of Splunk Dashboard Studio — our new built-in dashboarding experience included in Splunk Enterprise 8.2 and higher and Splunk Cloud Platform 8.1.2103 and higher. With new, beautiful visualizations and the ability for more visual control over the dashboard, our customers and Splunkers alike have been creating beautiful and insightful dashboards to turn data into doing.

You likely deal with major incidents regularly, but do you know who first coined the term? You also probably use the best tools on the market to help you fix those incidents, but do you know what some of the first tools were? When incident management is part of your day-to-day, it’s easy to think you know it all. But we have a hunch that there are some interesting facts that haven’t crossed your mind yet!

Log archiving is the process of storing all kinds of logs (application, system, or monitoring) from across a multitude of systems in a long-term storage solution like S3. Securely collecting and keeping logs is crucial for many businesses, and they have to do it effectively and with minimal supervision.

We are often asked what’s the difference between Anodot and CloudHealth. Since both platforms offer cloud cost management solutions, the differentiation might be unclear. In this article, we’ll quickly clarify what each platform is built for, and why — despite some overlaps in features — these are two fundamentally different creatures.

If you’re running earlier versions of Application Performance Management (APM), including version 10.7, on-premises and considering upgrading to DX APM SaaS, you’re undoubtedly curious what the migration process might look like. In this blog post, I’m going to share the story of one of Broadcom’s Fortune 50 customers and how they successfully migrated more than 30,000 production agents while navigating time constraints around their busy holiday season.

Microsoft Azure Sentinel is an intelligent, next-generation security information and event management (SIEM) solution designed to detect threat anomalies. Azure Sentinel is also categorized as a security orchestration automated response (SOAR) service that expedites the incident detection and event response process for cybersecurity teams. Azure Sentinel provides an extra layer of security to protect critical resources across an organization.

A few days ago, security researcher Max Kellermann published a vulnerability named DirtyPipe which was designated as CVE-2022-0847. This vulnerability affects the Linux kernel and if exploited, can allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. The vulnerability gained extensive media follow-up, since it affects all Linux-based systems with a 5.8 or later kernel, without any particular exploitation prerequisites.

As citizens, we interact with the government at various points in our lives. Many interactions serve as important rites of passage like obtaining a marriage or business license, claiming a new dependent on a tax return, or filing for retirement benefits. Other interactions serve as a safety net like obtaining financial assistance after a disaster or reporting a scam attempt. No matter the reason for transacting with the government, citizens want the interaction to be as frictionless as possible.