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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.

Beyond their primary function of bringing internet content closer to client servers, CDNs also play a vital role in network security. For instance, CDN helps you absorb traffic overloads from DDoS attacks by distributing traffic across many servers. However, the volume of servers under your CDNs control and their geographically distributed nature presents its own set of risks, operational and security. Choosing the best CDN monitoring tool is critical to the end-user experience.

It has now been over a year since Russian forces invaded its neighbor to the west leading to the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. Kentik’s Doug Madory reviews what has happened with internal connectivity within Ukraine over the course of the war in this analysis done for a collaboration with the Wall Street Journal. This February marked a grim milestone in the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Spring has sprung, and the bees have been busy. Let’s have a look at what’s new in Honeycomb at the close of March.

Alerting is a critical feature in monitoring and observability products. The monitoring platform continually tests systems and applications for metrics crossing thresholds, key events in logs and the other warning signs of issues. Alerting ensures that help desks, administrators and IT Ops teams know about issues, or impeding issues and handle communications and remediation rapidly.

Today we’re excited to announce the InfluxDB add-on for Ockam Orchestrator. Through the use of the add-on, customers that are using InfluxDB Cloud can use Ockam to improve their security posture by automatically granting uniquely identifiable, least privilege, time-limited credentials for any client that needs to connect to InfluxDB Cloud.