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New Ways to Uncover Trends with Discover

While powerful, our first iteration of Discover had some user experience complexities that made it less user-friendly than other potential search mechanisms. We also heard from you that our Events feature was useful for identifying individual events, but finding common patterns within those events was extremely difficult — keyword, ”was”. I want to share some of the features and the top 5 use cases that you can do with the refreshed Discover.

How to Find and Stop SQL Injection Attempts on Your Websites With SolarWinds Security Event Manager

Your public-facing websites can be a secret backdoor to personally identifiable data. Simple SQL queries executed on your website search bar could create a data breach. In this video, we'll cover how you can can identify and stop this malicious activity with SolarWinds Security Event Manager.

ManageEngine recognized for unified endpoint management at RSA Conference 2020

In 2019, Cyber Defense Magazine named ManageEngine a Next Gen vendor in Unified Endpoint Management at IP EXPO in London, and then again at RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco. Cyber Defense Magazine recognized ManageEngine in its 2020 InfoSec Awards for the features, capabilities, and value it delivers, along with its market presence.

Azure Monitor (Part 4): Working with Logs data using Kusto (KQL)

In the last couple of posts we covered the various ways of connecting data sources to Azure Monitor Logs (Part 2: Getting Started, Part 3: Solutions), so by now we should have loads of data to play around with. The data we’ve collected so far is largely just a blob, and probably not very useful at this point. “Solutions” help with this, but the real fun part starts now: making sense of the data you have using the Kusto Query Language – better known as KQL.

The benefits of observability

Grafana Labs cofounder and CEO Raj Dutt was a recent guest on the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), speaking to host Dan Woods about the benefits of observability. The conversation touched on several related topics – including the tactics of observability, platform approaches, and why now is a great time to be part of an open source company.

Why Pry is one of the most important tools a junior Rubyist can learn

As programmers we often have to mentally run code. To imagine how a program will behave given certain inputs. This is hard enough for experienced developers. But for juniors? It can seem impossible. In this article, Melissa Williams argues that pry is an invaluable tool for junior rubyists because it allows them to see exactly what is going on as their code is run.

A Complete Guide to Rails Caching

Application performance is always a concern when building in the modern, competitive web and mobile space. At Scout, it’s why we created application performance monitoring tools in the first place. That said, there are steps you can take to build a more performant application. If you are using Ruby on Rails, caching might be one of the best tools on your belt to build a better application.

Popular integrations in Confluence Cloud

Chapter 4 and the final installment in Atlassian's "How To Get The Most Out Of Confluence Cloud" series. In just under 5 mins, this video demonstrates how to use popular integrations in Confluence. Get an overview of Atlassian’s Marketplace and learn how to use the Jira, Trello, Google Drive, Slack, Gliffy, and Draw.io integrations and apps with Confluence.

Kubernetes Master Class: How to implement Network Policy to secure your cluster

By default, pods are non-isolated; they accept traffic from any source. The Kubernetes solution to this security concern is Network Policy that lets developers control network access to their services. Rancher comes configured with Network Policy using Project Calico which can be used to secure your clusters. This class will describe a few use cases for network policy and a live demo implementing each use case.