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Log Analysis with Machine Learning: An Automated Approach to Analyzing Logs Using ML/AI

AI log analysis helps IT teams turn massive volumes of operational data into actionable insight. By applying statistical methods, machine learning (ML), semantic analysis, and generative AI, organizations can identify unusual behavior, connect related signals, and investigate probable root causes faster. But AI-generated answers should not be mistaken for proof.

SAP Observability Tools Compared

Comparisons of SAP observability tools often evaluate which platforms can see inside SAP.Today, that’s nearly all of them. Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic and Splunk can all get SAP telemetry. None of them are likely the best choice for an SAP-centric application, and we will document why. The questions teams evaluating SAP observability solutions should consider: That last one is where most of these platforms stop, and it is the difference between observability and operations.

September 2026 at Bindplane: Bindplane Agent and a new Overview page

Also this month, a new BDOT 1.107.0 release, and you can start a configuration from a Full-Pipeline Blueprint. Here’s what happened in the last month. Prefer to watch? The September Community Call is streamed live on YouTube. Watch " YouTube" on YouTube Watch.

Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 13 - Routes, part 2: Many-to-one

Leon is back from the BlackHat conference and it shows (or at least it SOUNDS like it). Despite a little bit of laryngitis, today he’s continuing the exploration of routing by focusing on taking multiple sources of data and using routes to send them to a particular destination. By the time the month is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed more caffeinated beverages than is strictly appropriate...

Moving Alert and Email-to-Ticket Mail off SMTP AUTH to Microsoft Graph API

Every monitoring alert, scheduled report, and email to ticket conversion in your stack depends on a mailbox. Most monitoring and helpdesk management tools still reach that mailbox the old way. They log in with a username and password over SMTP or EWS. Exchange Online is closing both doors on a published schedule. The tools that fail will fail silently. In this blog, you will: By the end, you can run the change on a weekday afternoon and know nothing went quiet.

macOS Patch Management for Mixed Windows and Mac Fleets

How many Macs in your environment are running an OS build that your patch compliance report has never counted? In most mixed Windows and Mac deployments, the Windows side is managed by policy and the Mac side is managed by hope. Designers, executives, and engineering leads install updates when a notification interrupts them, and otherwise dismiss the prompt for months.

How Federal IT Teams Prepare for FIPS 140-2 Historical Status Before It Delays Authorization

September 22, 2026 is not an operating system shutdown date. It is a cryptographic compliance transition that changes what federal organizations can use for new systems and what they must defend in existing ones.

What is New in Flowmon 13.1 and Flowmon ADS 13.1

Improvements to the Progress Flowmon product family continue, and we are pleased to announce the release of Flowmon 13.1. The latest 13.1 release builds on the strong foundations we laid in Flowmon 13. Headline enhancements include a rebuilt visualization layer, automated investigation workflows and a set of AI-assisted capabilities in the Flowmon Anomaly Detection System (ADS). And the Flowmon team is eager to share how your team can utilize these new capabilities.