In this blog, we walk through Atlassian's cloud security practices and the controls we give you inside Bitbucket to maintain enterprise-grade security, without the overhead of managing it internally. Security is an essential part of Atlassian's offerings. We manage code and data for over 300,000 customers who serve hundreds of millions of users. To secure data at the scale we operate, we invest more in security than most individual organizations can.

Telemetry data, at its core, is all about transmitting real-time information from remote sources to centralized systems for analysis and action. This data is super important across different industries due to its ability to provide immediate, actionable insights that enhance operations and strategic decision-making.

There are a lot of factors that go into choosing an observability solution. And even after all that careful consideration, sometimes the platform you initially invest in doesn’t meet your needs, especially as your organization grows and evolves. For that very reason, we’ve seen users begin their observability journeys with another tool, and then decide to migrate to Grafana Cloud, our fully managed cloud-hosted observability platform.

Undoubtedly, AI is our future—which means it’s past time to integrate machine learning models into your FinOps multi-cloud tech stack. AI turns simple tasks into something that can be executed at the click of a button. With well-trained models, FinOps, MSPs, and Enterprises can automate cost detection, forecasting, and anomaly identification, streamlining complex financial operations without increasing their workforce. The good news?

We’re excited to show you some great updates to the most-used feature of StatusGator: Third party service monitoring. This update combines several features that have been very often requested and will certainly make your StatusGator experience even better. Here’s what’s new.

With the upcoming release of JDK 23, there are some significant changes in locale information that will affect Elasticsearch and how you ingest and format datetime data. Firstly, a bit of background.

Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, companies have either banned or rushed to adopt generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), which is rapidly expanding in use and capabilities. Its powerful yet unpredictable nature poses significant cybersecurity risks, transforming it into a double-edged sword. However, whether generative AI poses more opportunity or risk is not necessarily the right question to ask.

Azure Cost Optimization is one of the key factors to achieving a solid return on investment using the cloud. The more we use the resources, the more we have to pay increasing the Azure spend. But it is more important to keep an eye on the amount spent on the resources. Azure Cost Optimization is crucial for organizations leveraging Microsoft Azure to ensure they are using cloud resources efficiently, avoiding unnecessary expenses, and maximizing the value of their investment.

Apache Kafka plays a critical role in financial services by providing a robust, scalable, and real-time data streaming platform. The financial industry relies heavily on processing vast amounts of data quickly and reliably, and Kafka’s capabilities are well-suited for this environment. Below are some key use cases of Kafka in financial services.