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SIEM alerts: everything you need to know

Let's walk through setting up SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) alerts to monitor security threats in applications. We will explain what SIEM alerts are, why they're relevant with regard to application security, and provide practical examples of common alerts a developer could implement. We will show how to configure simple alerts with Honeybadger Insights.

Project and manage cloud spend with Datadog budget forecasting

Cloud and SaaS spending continues to grow across teams, services, and providers, changing too quickly for retrospective cost management workflows to keep up. Finance and engineering leaders often rely on last month’s reports or manually maintained spreadsheets, which don’t reflect current usage. As a result, teams lack context on how spend is trending and often discover budget overruns only after they’ve occurred.

Generate test scripts from natural language with Grafana Assistant: introducing k6 Script Authoring

Performance testing is critical to ensure your applications stay reliable under load, but writing the scripts themselves often feels like a chore. Most engineers already know the scenario they want to test; the hard part is translating that intent into a working performance test. Even experienced developers who use k6 can lose time looking up syntax, configuring load stages and thresholds, or debugging boilerplate code before they can run a meaningful test.

Why AI economics needs a financial control plane

Runtime guardrails and control towers govern AI activity — but without a financial control plane connecting spend to outcomes, enterprises can't tell which AI bets are worth it. Most enterprises can answer exactly one question about their AI rollout: what did we spend?

The "Single Pane of Glass" Is Dead - What Network Teams Actually Need Is Intelligence

The infrastructure industry spent two decades chasing a single pane of glass. The future looks different: domain-expert AI platforms that reason deeply within their own data, connected through tool chaining when problems cross boundaries.

From Watching AI Search to Engineering for It: What Q1 2026 Taught Us About Real Digital Demand

Last year, I wrote about how AI-driven search trends reshaped my digital marketing strategy in ways I hadn’t seen in two decades. At the time, the story was mostly observational: traffic patterns were changing, conversions were holding, and AI-generated search answers were clearly influencing buyer behavior. Fast-forward to the first quarter of 2026, and one thing is clear — this shift didn’t slow down; it accelerated.

7 Best IT Support Companies in Birmingham Reviewed 2026

If you run a business, you already know how quickly things fall apart when your IT starts playing up. One minute everything is running fine, then suddenly emails stop working, systems slow to a crawl, or somebody clicks on something they definitely shouldn't have clicked on. Most businesses don't really think about IT support until something goes wrong, which is usually when the panic starts. The problem is there are loads of IT support companies out there now, and a lot of them sound exactly the same. Every website promises "tailored solutions" and "cutting edge support" without really explaining what makes them different.

Why Nearby Search Optimization Matters for Modern Dental Clinics

Picture this: it's Saturday night, someone cracks a tooth on a piece of hard candy, and the absolute last thing they're doing is flipping through a phonebook. They're on their phone within seconds, searching for help. If your practice doesn't appear in those results, someone else's does, and that's a patient you just lost without ever knowing it. According to recent data, 98% of consumers search online for nearby companies, which means showing up digitally isn't a nice-to-have anymore. It's your front door.