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A constant challenge for many development teams is how to include test data management in the development process. Testing with consistent, realistic and compliant datasets, and bringing the database into CI and DevOps pipelines, has been shown to catch data-related issues long before they reach customers. The result: an increase in efficiency, a reduction in costs, and an improvement in the quality of software releases, enabling value to be released to customers faster.

A database is one of the most critical components for almost every application. Making sure it is running with the expected read and write latencies is paramount. This can be the difference between a smooth, pleasing user experience and a slow, error-filled one that makes your customers turn their back on a product — and never come back.

Are you ready to take your monitoring and analysis game to the next level? As businesses increasingly shift to the cloud, migrating Graphite metrics to the cloud has become critical to unlocking the full potential of real-time performance monitoring. In this article, we'll guide you through migrating Graphite to the cloud and show you how to make the transition as smooth as possible. So grab a cup of coffee, and let's dive in!

As an SRE putting out fires all day, it’s nice to get a good night’s sleep. But there are times when that PagerDuty alert goes off in the middle of the night, forcing you to leap into action to fix a high-priority issue. This is where having the best log analytics tool is critical to easily search and query the log data, perform deep-dive troubleshooting and analysis and quickly come to a resolution.

With every new device, application and website that your users and employees have to log in to, they have to create a new password. It’s no wonder then that they find this overwhelming. So, what do they do? They create a password that is easy to remember — something like “123456” or perhaps their birth date. Then, to keep it simple, they use the same password over and over again. On top of that, they opt for their browsers and devices to remember these passwords.

When your organization relies on hundreds or thousands of hosts, it can be difficult to ensure that each is equipped with the proper tools and configurations. Configuration management tools like Ansible are designed to help you automatically deploy, manage, and configure hosts across your on-prem and cloud infrastructure. In this post, we’ll show you how to use Ansible to automate the installation of the Datadog Agent on a dynamic inventory of Windows hosts.

At Vanta, our goal is to nurture a positive security culture in everything we do—which is especially critical given that helping our customers improve their security and compliance posture starts with our own. Employees are the key to our security resilience, so we strive to build and support a strong culture of incident response in tandem. Here’s what that means to us at Vanta.

Welcome to the exciting world of cloud computing, where everything is digital and the skies are always clear...or are they? With so many connections in the cloud, it's easy to get lost in a digital haze. That's where Azure Network Monitoring comes in! By keeping a watchful eye on your cloud connections, you can ensure that your data travels smoothly and your cloud experience remains crystal clear.

If you’ve been shying away from exploring co-managed IT services opportunities, it might be time to think again. Co-managed is here to stay, and is likely going to be a big play for MSPs looking to move up market, especially considering the increasing pricing pressures we’re seeing in the market.

What does a normal day look like for your service desk? A flood of incoming tickets. Insufficient data to quickly find the root cause of issues. And a lack of remediation power to close tickets fast. Level 1 (L1) analysts are forced to spend time jumping across tools, reaching out to end users, or relying on guesswork to solve problems.