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How Zero Trust is Reshaping Federal IT Strategy

Zero trust sparked a paradigm shift for federal agencies, changing the way they approach IT and data management as they "assume breach" from threat actors. Brian Chamberlain, Public Sector Business Development Lead at SolarWinds, explains how starting with observability helps federal agencies lay critical groundwork for meeting zero trust directives.

Find the Lookalike Domains Impersonating Your Brand: A Free Phishing & Typosquatting Scanner

Somewhere out there, a domain that looks almost exactly like yours may already be registered. Maybe it swaps one letter. Maybe it uses a Cyrillic character that is visually identical to a Latin one. Maybe it just adds the word "login" or "secure" to your brand. These lookalike domains are the raw material of phishing, and most companies have no idea how many exist for their brand until something goes wrong.

ClickHouse LowCardinality: When It Helps and When It Hurts

ClickHouse LowCardinality cuts storage and speeds up queries on low-cardinality columns, but backfires on trace IDs. How to tell the difference. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.

Python Error Tracking for Django, Flask, and FastAPI: A Practical Setup Guide

Your Python app is throwing errors in production right now. Some of them are obvious: a 500 response, an angry Slack message from support. But most are quiet. A background task swallows an exception. A race condition surfaces only under load. A third-party API returns unexpected data and your code handles it by not handling it. If you’re relying on log files and user reports to find these, you’re debugging after the damage is done.

Observability: Are You Measuring What Actually Matters?

Observability has always been important, and much like any core capability in your business, the value needs to be understood. For years, the value of observability was predictable. It was uptime, error rates, MTTR, and likely tool consolidation. That was enough to be able to show progress. These are foundational, tablestakes metrics—and they still matter, but they aren’t enough.

Kubernetes Monitoring: Datadog Alert to Lightrun Root Cause

Datadog Kubernetes monitoring tells an SRE team what failed, which pod failed, and when. It does so within seconds of the alert firing. The investigation then stalls at the same point every time: nothing in the dashboard layer can prove why a specific request behaved the way it did inside a running JVM at the moment of failure. Variable values, feature flag evaluations, and code branches are never captured.

PHP-FPM Performance Optimization: The Complete Tuning + Monitoring Guide

When your PHP-based application starts attracting thousands of visitors, the way you run PHP becomes critical. A slow-loading page or a server crash during peak hours can cost you revenue, users, and reputation. PHP-FPM (PHP FastCGI Process Manager) is the default way most high-performance websites run PHP. While its default configuration works fine for small to medium workloads, high-traffic applications need custom tuning to handle large volumes of requests efficiently.

How AI is Reshaping IT Operations Management

AI is transforming IT operations through automated incident response, intelligent event correlation, predictive analytics, and agentic AI. But while technology is evolving rapidly, human judgment and strategic decision-making remain essential. In this video, explore what's changing in IT operations, what isn't, and how IT leaders can prepare for an AI-driven future with AIOps, observability, and automation. Learn how Motadata helps organizations build smarter, more proactive IT operations.