Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

The inadequate guide to Rails security

If you're like me, you got into this business because you love building awesome apps. If you've been in the development space long enough, you'll eventually have to do work on those awesome apps that doesn't feel so awesome. Security can be one of those things. Taking Rails security seriously is important, even though the Rails framework does much of the heavy lifting. Before we get too deep into the details of Ruby on Rails security, let's take a second to reflect on the good times. ...

The business impact of Elasticsearch logsdb index mode and TSDS

The Elasticsearch storage engine team has made significant strides in improving storage efficiency and performance in Elasticsearch 8.19 and 9.1. Now that these changes are available, what impact can they have on your business? And how do you make the most of them?

You don't control most of the infrastructure your digital services rely on.

However, your customers still expect a flawless experience, every time. The complexity of modern architectures (CDNs, DNS, APIs, cloud platforms) means that even “simple” applications can break in ways you don’t see coming. So how do you stay ahead of issues you don’t even own? By monitoring the digital delivery chain as your users experience it, across networks, geographies, and third-party dependencies, and catching performance degradations before they become business problems.

Optimize application performance at the network layer: introducing HTTP Performance Insights in Frontend Observability

Imagine you’re a frontend engineer monitoring the user experience for an e-commerce app. You notice your checkout flow has a 15% abandonment rate. Your API responses are inconsistent. Your users are frustrated, and you’re drowning in data and complex queries trying to figure out why. Sound familiar? You can use real user monitoring (RUM) to determine what has happened, looking at page load times, error counts, user sessions, etc.

What's New in InfluxDB 3.4: Simpler Cache Management, Provisioned Tokens, and More

Today, we’re releasing InfluxDB 3.4 for Core and Enterprise, as well as our 1.2 update for the Explorer UI. This release focuses on developer efficiency, operational automation, and targeted security enhancements, giving teams faster setup, smoother workflows, and stronger guardrails for production use. InfluxDB 3 Core is free and open source, optimized for recent data, and licensed under MIT and Apache 2.

AI That Knows Networking: Selector vs. Generic GPT Integrations

The hype around generative AI has led many IT teams to experiment with plugging generic GPT models into their workflows. On paper, this is the beginning of true AI networking, featuring conversational interfaces, instant summaries, and faster troubleshooting. However, as we discussed in the previous post, “Why Your IT Copilot Needs Context, Not Just Data,” copilots are only as effective as the intelligence behind them.

Tech Talk - Aligning Observability Costs with Business Value Practical Strategies

Learn how to tackle the challenges of growing telemetry data and optimize your observability model to maximize value while minimizing costs. This session will explore strategies to reduce log ingestion, centralize pipeline management, and gain visibility into metric usage to identify waste.

Tech Talk - Mastering Data Pipelines Unlocking value with Splunk

On this Tech Talk to learn how Splunk can help you unlock the value of your security and observability data by building an effective data management strategy. Understand how Splunk’s approach to federated data management can help you maximize the value of data. Build effective pipelines using our latest SPL2-powered data processing capabilities to collect, transform and route data based on your business needs. Run effective searches on data in Amazon S3 without having to ingest or index data into Splunk.