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Symantec Edge SWG (formerly ProxySG) Performance Monitoring: Gain Full Observability with DX NetOps and AppNeta

For teams running secure web gateways (SWGs), also referred to as proxies, in today’s complex, dynamic network environments, extensive observability is a must have. Symantec offers a range of flexible deployment options for its SWGs, offering support for cloud, edge, and hybrid approaches. This blog explores a Broadcom solution that provides comprehensive observability for the Symantec edge offering, Symantec Edge SWG (formerly ProxySG).

Webinar Recap: Observability Data Orchestration

Today, businesses are generating more data than ever before. However, with this data explosion comes a new set of challenges, including increased complexity, higher costs, and difficulty extracting value. With this in mind, how can organizations effectively manage this data to extract value and solve the challenges of the modern data stack?

"I can now sleep at night." How Corevist Achieved Single-Pane-of-Glass Observability

In October 2022, we released SolarWinds® Observability, our cloud-native SaaS observability solution. For companies like Corevist, the solution provided them with the ability to define customized monitoring specifically configured to the Corevist instances within each customer deployment. For them, this was a major game changer.

Empowering SecOps Admins: Getting the Most Value from CrowdStrike FDR Data with Cribl Stream

Join Ed Bailey and Sidd Shah as they discuss how Cribl Stream can empower Security Operations Admins to make the most of their CrowdStrike FDR data. During the discussion, Ed and Sidd will address the challenges faced by CrowdStrike customers who generate a vast amount of valuable data each day but struggle to leverage it fully due to complexity and size. They will explain how Cribl Stream can help SecOps admins extract the right data for their SIEM, while moving the rest to their Security Data Lake, enabling them to get the maximum value from their data and be cost-effective at the same time.

Observability vs Monitoring - The difference explained with an example

Observability vs monitoring has been a common topic in DevOps recently. There has been a lot of debate, and I have learned a lot from them when I started my observability journey. Most literature on observability is associated with a particular product or shares a textbook definition. In this blog post, I want to give you a practical understanding of observability and the differences between observability and monitoring with different scenarios and examples. We will cover the following topics here.

Watch: How to pair Grafana Faro and Grafana k6 for frontend observability

Grafana Faro and xk6-browser are both new tools within the Grafana Labs open source ecosystem, but the pairing is already showing a lot of potential in terms of frontend monitoring and performance testing. Faro, which was announced last November, includes a highly configurable SDK that instruments web apps to capture observability signals that can then be correlated with backend and infrastructure data.