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What's the Sharpest Tool in Your Security Shed?

How easy is it to work with your security tools? So easy that you’re telling all your family and friends and you singing their praises from the occasional rooftop? Well, we sure hope so. Security tools, like any other tool, should help you save time, not waste it. Nobody would have invented a drill if screwdrivers were fast enough — but it’s also up to you to make sure you are using your drill and all the other power tools available in the modern world.

Observability 101: a chat with Jude Bakeer

We recently sat down with Jude Bakeer, one of LogicMonitor’s Solutions Engineers, to talk about the future of IT and Observability. Part of Jude’s role requires her to talk to customers and enterprises every day. Over the years, she’s gathered unparalleled insights into key trends across these industries and segments – from ops teams to C-level executives.

Digital Experience Management (DEM) and Your Salesforce.com: Everything You Need To Know

The post-pandemic world is more digital. Covid-19 fundamentally impacted how we live, work, interact, and shop. And while some of the structural trends (such as the rise in remote work or shifting consumer preferences) were already underway, the pandemic accelerated them by a significant number of years. The competitive landscape is digital, and the winners and losers are defined through the customer experience they provide.

Sky Rocket APM Performance with Log Analytics

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is great for tracking the health and performance of your software tool. APM helps you understand what's happening inside your application by monitoring various parameters such as CPU/memory stress, internal network throughput, and more. However, mixing in log analytics can take your APM game up a notch. Almost all software tools generate logs when they run.

Pandora FMS becomes an M81 partner to make IBM i system monitoring easier

Pandora FMS, an international benchmark in system monitoring, becomes technology partner of the French company M81. The French platform has extensive experience in the sector since its creation in 1988 and is currently considered one of the great experts when it comes to monitoring IBM i systems. Thanks to this agreement, Pandora FMS will transfer this type of solutions to Spanish companies to improve IT management and the efficiency of the different work areas.

Incident Severity Levels 1-5 Explained

The question isn't whether an incident will happen: it's when it will happen. Systems will crash. Software will fail. Vendors will suffer an outage of their own. It's your job to be prepared for these problems, and incident severity levels are one of the tools you need. Incidents have varying impacts on your business and customers. Incident severity levels are how you classify their impact and manage your response.

Dashboard Studio: It's the Little Things

It's always interesting to hear what feature requests dashboard users share with our product team. Sometimes it's big things — such as being able to set tokens on drilldowns — and sometimes it's little things. In Splunk Cloud Platform 9.0.2208, we've included a handful of Dashboard Studio "little things" updates.