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Escaping the Diderot effect: How to avoid tech-driven spending

Jun 4, 2026 By Priyanka Gs In ManageEngine
Top Tips is a weekly column where we explore emerging trends in technology and share practical ways to stay ahead. This week, we're looking at how technology can nudge us into unnecessary spending—and how to avoid it. Have you ever bought one thing and then felt the need to buy several more to match it? If so, you've experienced what is known as the Diderot Effect. The term comes from the life of Denis Diderot, a famous French philosopher who spent much of his wealth in a matter of months.
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How APM fits into the modern observability stack

How APM fits into the modern observability stack

Jun 4, 2026 By Kirubanandan Rammohan In ManageEngine
Most engineering teams don't have a data problem. They have an interpretation problem. Prometheus is running, logs are shipping to the aggregator, dashboards are green-and then a latency spike hits and the root cause takes 45 minutes to isolate. The data was there but the answer wasn't. That gap is where application performance monitoring (APM) operates. This article explores what APM adds to a modern observability stack, why relying on standalone tools leaves critical blind spots, and how teams can unify infrastructure data with application context for a complete operational picture.
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How to Build a Cost-Effective Log Retention Strategy

Jun 4, 2026 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Nearly every home has that drawer or doom corner where you store all those items that you don’t need every day but that you still want to keep for those “just in case moments.” If you’re a document connoisseur, you may have financial documents that go back years because an accountant once warned you that an IRS audit would require seven years of back documentation. In short, you have a lot of documents that you may or may not need taking up a lot of room in your home.
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How to debug REST Collector APIs with Cribl REST Collector Diagnostics

Jun 4, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
This video introduces the new REST Collector Diagnostics feature in Cribl, which helps you troubleshoot API collection issues faster. It’s designed for observability and data engineers who use REST Collector to pull data from external APIs and need deeper visibility into HTTP requests, responses, and errors.
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meshiq

Upgrading to ActiveMQ 5.19.7 or 6.2.6

Jun 4, 2026 By meshIQ In meshIQ
The latest Apache ActiveMQ releases – 5.19.7 and 6.2.6, both from May 27 – are good releases to apply. They close known dependency CVEs and tighten the broker’s default posture. (We covered the full list of changes in our release overview.) But here’s the catch with any “secure-by-default” update: hardening defaults means turning things off.
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Apache ActiveMQ 5.19.7 and 6.2.6

Jun 4, 2026 By meshIQ In meshIQ
On May 27, the Apache ActiveMQ project shipped two releases on the same day: 5.19.7 and 6.2.6. Look at the changelogs side by side and the story is clear — this isn’t a feature drop. It’s a coordinated security-hardening pass applied to both maintained branches of ActiveMQ Classic at once, with the same fixes deliberately backported so that no supported line is left behind.
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The Silent Killer of IBM MQ: How One Leaky App Can Crash Your Entire Estate

Jun 4, 2026 By meshIQ In meshIQ
A single leaky application can crash your entire IBM MQ estate by consuming OS resources through unclosed connections. Traditional monitoring misses these silent killers. Learn how proactive observability detects OPPROCS anomalies before they trigger infrastructure failures.
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