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The state of web app, API, and AI service security is in constant flux, with threats seemingly lurking around every corner. For years, organizations have relied on web application firewalls (WAFs) as a critical layer of defense. HAProxy Technologies has long provided robust WAF solutions, including earlier versions such as the "Advanced WAF" and "ModSecurity WAF" — based on the popular open source WAF engine. These excelled against widely-known OWASP Top 10 threats.

New Relic provides full-stack observability and monitoring. It provides almost every type of system monitoring on a single platform. This includes monitoring tools for infrastructure, application performance monitoring (APM), synthetics, user, log, mobile, network, and Kubernetes components. DevOps, security, and business professionals use these capabilities to detect anomalies, analyze root causes, and fix software performance issues.

Fleet management is the practice of monitoring and configuring your fleet of agents and collectors. Key functionality includes: Fleet management is the hallmark of an organisation that has realised the great importance of a healthy telemetry pipeline, and has taken steps to ensure that collectors & agents are every bit as robust as the production architecture for which they are responsible.

The recent Cloudflare outage served as a stark reminder of how fragile the global digital ecosystem can be due to a single point of failure. In a matter of minutes, thousands of websites that rely on Cloudflare’s CDN, from Fortune 500 brands to SaaS platforms and consumer apps, went offline for hours. The business impacts were severe, with Shopify alone suffering over $4 million in losses while downstream merchant impacts potentially exceeded $170 million.

We’ve introduced a new type of Performance Issues, Web Vitals Performance Issues. These issues will be opened for the highest opportunity pages in your application if your Web Vitals metrics drop into our meh, or poor thresholds for performance. We’ve built these issues with Seer Issue Fix specifically in mind. Our goal is to not just alert you about low vitals scores, we want to give you actionable steps you can take to improve your scores and, when possible, fix the problem for you.

For twenty years, a stolen private key was a disaster. It meant total compromise. Every encrypted conversation, password transmitted, API call ever made was readable. Traffic was being recorded all the time, “just in case” your private key leaked out. The NSA even had a name for it: “harvest now, decrypt later.” Record all the encrypted traffic today. Steal the private keys tomorrow. Decrypt everything retroactively.

I still remember the working with a leading insurance provider on an internal review of their IT estate and discovering a team quietly using an unapproved SaaS tool to speed up their reporting. It wasn’t malicious, they were trying to solve a problem faster. But as we stared at the dashboard, I could see the CIO’s mind racing: What data had they uploaded? Was it encrypted? Were they still compliant?

Compliance requirements and rising risk standards have raised the stakes for data centre security. Without assurance that facilities can resist disruption and protect data, organisations face increased exposure to audit failure, downtime, and reputational damage. For executives and auditors, data centre security is part of wider governance and risk management. Oversight means confirming that physical safeguards, environmental systems, and compliance frameworks are in place and can be trusted.

Developer velocity and DBA caution are not opposing forces, they reflect two essential priorities that historically lacked a shared process. Database DevOps eliminates tension by introducing automated validation, approvals, and visibility that allow developers to move fast while DBAs safeguard performance and reliability. With platforms like Harness, database change becomes a collaborative workflow instead of a conflict, turning release cycles into a partnership built on trust and predictability.

When troubleshooting complex software, it’s important to be able to gain insight via its telemetry quickly and precisely. No one wants to waste time switching between tools or worrying about how to interact with different types of data. At Honeycomb, all your data is available in one place, accessible via our fast query engine. But what does that look like in practice?