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What is Forensic Analysis and Why is it Important for the Security of Your Infrastructure

With the advent of cybercrime in recent years, tracking malicious online activities has become imperative for protecting operations in national security, public safety, law and government enforcement along with protecting private citizens. Consequently, the field of computer forensics is growing, now that legal entities and law enforcement has realized the value IT professionals can deliver.

9 ways to drive time to value with Puppet Enterprise

This is the first post in a four-part series on why Open Source Puppet users have made the decision to move to Puppet Enterprise. If you’re considering making this change, read on for pros and cons! As more and more businesses are moving from Open Source Puppet (OSP) to Puppet Enterprise (PE), they are experiencing multiple benefits. In this blog series, we’re exploring the biggest benefits we hear from customers about their experience moving from OSP to PE.

Shortcut to Value With Loggly

In this video, we will show you how Loggly is laid out and demonstrate the major functions that will have you leveraging the out-of-the-box functions immediately. The SolarWinds® Loggly® log management service integrates into the engineering processes of teams employing continuous deployment and DevOps practices to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), improve service quality, accelerate innovation, and better use valuable development resources.

What is GitOps?

This article was written by a guest author. Not long ago, if we wanted to put our code into production, we needed to manually configure a server, our infrastructure, that would host our app or database. This manual process is not only time-consuming, but also prone to errors. That is why at present, developers chose to create “scripts” that are in charge of configuring the infrastructure These “scripts” are known as Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Modern Security Monitoring Demands an Integrated Strategy

The ultimate success of any security monitoring platform depends largely on two fundamental requirements – its ability to accurately and efficiently surface threats and its level of integration with adjacent systems. In the world of SIEM, this is perhaps more relevant than any other element of contemporary IT security infrastructure.

Cost of ELK

Do you know how much your ELK stack costs? Managing and analyzing your data is a critical part of your business. However, the true cost of an ELK stack can be hard to calculate, and the truth is you may be spending a lot more than you think. Elasticsearch wasn't designed to work efficienctly at the scale required by today's data volume, especially the growth of log data. As your data grows, your ELK stack becomes more expensive to scale and maintain, leaving you with the headache and the tab. Well, ChaosSearch has the answer.

An In-Depth Guide to Data Labeling - Tools, Best Practices & More

Artificial intelligence (AI) drives innovations across all facets of our lives, from self-driving cars to email spam filtering to personalized shopping to smart homes and automated investing. There's no denying that these critical innovations wouldn’t have been possible without today’s businesses’ impressive data gathering capabilities. But perhaps more important is the ability to train AI tools using the data.

Monitoring Cisco webex with Grafana

In this article, we will take a look at what Cisco Webex is, how it works, and why it is great for your business. Then we will explore how to monitor Cisco Webex metrics using beautiful and customizable Grafana dashboards. We’ll also look at what are the most popular data sources Grafana uses. Finally, we will figure out how MetricFire simplifies the task of monitoring metrics for us and what are its main advantages.

Java Application Manual Instrumentation for Distributed Traces

In this blog series, we are covering application instrumentation steps for distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry standards across multiple languages. Earlier, we covered Golang Application Instrumentation for Distributed Traces and DotNet Application Instrumentation for Distributed Traces. Here we are going to cover the instrumentation for Java.