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What Is Shadow Traffic? All You Need to Know

Production traffic can often be unpredictable, and distinguishing genuine user interactions from mere noise becomes a pivotal step in comprehensively grasping the types of requests and workflows occurring within your deployment. One important concept to explore in this context is shadow traffic, which plays a significant role in analytics and cybersecurity but is often misunderstood or rarely discussed.

System Center 2025 Unveiled: Insights and Expert Discussion on SCOM, SCORCH, SCSM, and Beyond

The future of IT operations is here! Join us for an exclusive expert panel discussion on Microsoft System Center 2025, where industry leaders will explore the latest advancements and strategies for optimizing enterprise IT environments.

Introducing Raygun CLI: Level-up your error tracking workflow

Raygun CLI is a powerful command-line interface tool designed to enhance the developer experience when working with Raygun’s error tracking and performance monitoring platform. With this tool, we bring Raygun’s features directly to your terminal, making it easier to integrate some important elements of Raygun Crash Reporting and error tracking into your development and CI/CD workflow. We are excited to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of Raygun CLI.

Announcing ARM builds in cloud for Bitbucket Pipelines

We are excited to announce the release of ARM builds in the Pipelines cloud runtime. Our release of Linux based ARM runners in cloud allows you to build and deploy software for ARM-based systems with all the benefits of our fully managed CI/CD platform. To use the new cloud ARM runners in your pipeline, make the following modifications to your bitbucket-pipelines.yml file.

Introducing step failure strategies in Bitbucket Pipelines

We are excited to introduce a new capability in Bitbucket Pipelines – Step Failure Strategies. This is the first of a set of new features allowing developers to implement more comprehensive logic and control-flow inside their CI/CD pipelines. Failure Strategies are designed to give you explicit control over how your pipeline behaves in the event that an individual step within the pipeline fails.

Top Azure App Insights Techniques You're Not Using for Querying Logs

The Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) module's new feature allows seamless navigation directly to the Azure portal. This video provides an overview of how BAM enables the monitoring and querying of logs from Azure App Insights and Log Analytics. It also showcases a use case in the employee benefits scenario, where daily file processing data is visualized for business and support teams to track system activities.

You Can Solve the Overprovisioning Problem

If you're like most companies running large-scale, data-intensive workloads in the cloud, you’ve realized that you have significant quantities of waste in your environment. Smart organizations implement a host of FinOps and other activities to address this waste and the cost it incurs: … and the list goes on. These are infrastructure-level optimizations.

Feature Spotlight - Service Dependencies

To know how disruptions to one service might affect other services in your digital environment, it’s important to have a record of how applications and technical services connect within your architecture. Service dependency maps in xMatters define and visualize relationships between your services, so you can instantly see whether a service is impacted by any active incidents, and how that incident impacts other services. Dependency maps can be expanded to show additional upstream and downstream services and help identify a potential root cause.

A Leader's Framework for Enterprise AI Platform Investment

Almost every business needs AI, but it’s not needed everywhere. Yes, you read it right. AI, though it transforms entire business models, comes with a price tag. A 2022 survey by McKinsey found that only 27% of companies using AI have successfully scaled their initiatives across the organization. This highlights a key challenge—adopting AI without a clear strategy can lead to wasted resources and minimal return on investment.

Building Next-Generation SIEM Operations for Enterprise Security

Cybersecurity today is not just about defending against attacks. It’s about proactively managing risks in a landscape where threats are growing in volume and sophistication. With data volumes rising by 30% in just the past year and the average cost of a data breach now exceeding $4 million, traditional Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems are no longer enough.