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SSL/TLS certificates are important for protecting online communication between websites and users. These digital certificates work as identity cards, checking the authenticity of a website and creating an encrypted connection to safeguard sensitive data. In this article, we will explain what SSL/TLS certificates are, how they function, and their role in maintaining online security and privacy.

Amperity required an observability partner to facilitate their transition into the modern engineering era as their previous tooling struggled to support their growth strategy. When customer data is scattered everywhere, how do you put the pieces together to get an accurate customer 360° view? That’s the power of Amperity’s customer data platform (CDP), and the company has been driving customer data innovation for nearly a decade.

The maturity of your alerting strategy has a direct impact on the reliability of your infrastructure and your applications. It can also have a big impact on engineering productivity. So whether you’re talking about resolving incidents faster or avoiding alerting fatigue, alerting should always be front and center.

One of the superpowers of Grafana is the ability to bring all of your data into a single platform thanks to our rich catalog of data sources. Oftentimes you will want to visualize information from disparate data sources together in a single dashboard or panel. Or you might want to refine data returned from queries without altering the original data source. Or you may need to modify data due to limitations of a query language that stops you from getting the required formatting.

At GrafanaCON 2024, Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard introduced Grafana 11, which has a feature set that aligns with the same goals we’ve had since the OSS project launched in 2013. “The core mission of Grafana that we’ve had from the start is to make observability easy and powerful through good UX design, a focus on ease of use, and user flexibility and freedom,” Torkel said.

Today’s evolving technology makes it imperative for you to refresh or update organization’s hardware and software. This will decrease downtime, prevent crashes while increasing employee productivity. Nexthink combines employee usage, sentiment and performance data to help you make informed hardware refresh decisions that fit the needs of your employees and the business overall. Let's see how Nexthink performs a usage based intelligent hardware refresh.

This guide offers a deep dive into server uptime monitoring, focusing on the strategies and tools essential for seasoned IT professionals to implement. We’ll explore advanced metrics, fine-tune the deployment of tools like Heartbeat, and dissect integration practices with the ELK stack. Designed for technical leaders who manage complex infrastructures, this guide aims to enhance your methodologies in maintaining high availability and optimizing operational performance across your server ecosystems.

With the 4.6 release, Cribl.Cloud Enterprise users now have the opportunity to opt-in to a new cloud experience. As a deeply customer-centric company, we listened to your feedback, and we heard you! We are making our user experience efficient, secure, and flexible. As we work to refine this new experience, we invite you to partner with us and share your input to influence this transformation as it makes its way across the entire Cribl suite!

The internet, like a vast kingdom, relies on a complex infrastructure to function smoothly. But just like a kingdom needs strong security measures, the DNS needs robust protection to safeguard the entire online ecosystem..

Well, you’ve done it. You decided to take the plunge with InfluxDB. While vast and diverse possibilities await, you may have more short-term concerns. Namely: now what? Getting started looks different for everyone because no two users are doing the exact same thing. This post is primarily aimed at InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated and InfluxDB Clustered users (or any other products that include support agreements. You can chat with one of our sales folks if you have questions about that).