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Fixing Security's Data Problem: Strategies and Solutions with Cribl and CDW

Cribl's Ed Bailey and CDW's Brenden Morgenthaler discuss a foundational issue with many security programs that lack the right data to detect issues and make fast decisions. Data drives every facet of security and bad data/incomplete data weakens your overall program. Ed and Brenden will discuss common issues and strategies for solving security's data problem.

How Database Observability Increases Operational Reliability

Early on in my career as a DBA, I began to realize I wasn’t a Database Administrator as much as the Default Blame Acceptor for nearly any application problem. Let’s face it—the first thing blamed when there’s an issue is typically going to be the database, and it’s a “guilty until proven otherwise” situation.

Bracing for Impact: Why a Robust Observability Pipeline is Critical for Security Professionals in 2023

2023 is well underway and now more than ever it’s important to stay ahead of data trends and security concerns that are ever mounting. With the cost of catastrophic cyber attacks estimated to be ten times that of all other disasters combined, businesses need to take proactive measures to implement a security data pipeline to protect their data and comply with security and retention requirements.

FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost

With the current financial climate, cost reduction is top of mind for everyone. IT is one of the biggest cost centers in organizations, and understanding what drives those costs is critical. Many simply don’t understand the cost of their Kubernetes workloads, or even have observability into basic units of cost. This is where FinOps comes into play, and organizations are beginning to implement those best practice standards to understand their cost.

Introducing OpenTelemetry Support: Take Action on Your Observability Data

As an open source company that grew out of a side project in 2008 to an application and performance monitoring platform (APM) used by over 3.5 million developers, Sentry is committed to open source and the community of developers maintaining and building in the open. Similarly, we take a public approach to building our software, which is why it’s a natural extension of our values to announce our support for OpenTelemetry (or OTel), the leading open standard for observability.

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Discovering Efficiency Through 2 Steps Synthetic Monitoring for Splunk

You're probably familiar with Splunk. It's one of the most popular big data solutions organisations worldwide use to monitor their systems in real-time. But you may not know that Splunk also offers synthetic monitoring solutions via 2 Steps. 2 Steps Synthetic Monitoring for Splunk is a powerful tool that can help you speed up your application troubleshooting process. Today we'll take a closer look at what it is and how it can benefit your organisation.

How We Manage Incident Response at Honeycomb

When I joined Honeycomb two years ago, we were entering a phase of growth where we could no longer expect to have the time to prevent or fix all issues before things got bad. All the early parts of the system needed to scale, but we would not have the bandwidth to tackle some of them graciously. We’d have to choose some fires to fight, and some to let burn.

Introducing the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture

Join Ed Bailey and Eugene Katz as they unveil the first Cribl Stream Reference Architecture, designed to help observability admins achieve faster and more valuable stream deployment. In this live stream discussion, Ed and Eugene will explain the importance of a quality reference architecture in successful software deployment, and guide viewers on how to begin with the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture by first establishing end-state goals. They will also share different use cases and help viewers identify which parts of the reference architecture are applicable to their specific situation.