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Sentry x Acquired

On October 23, 2025, Sentry hosted a special live event featuring the hosts of the Acquired podcast, Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. Together, we spoke with some of today’s most inspiring leaders across tech and sports. Whether you’re a longtime Acquired listener or new to Sentry, tune into this rare chance to hear directly from some of the people shaping the next generation of everything from technology and storytelling to leadership and more.

Grafana Campfire - Using Git Sync (Grafana Community Call -Nov 2025)

For our upcoming Grafana Campfire Community Call, we'll explore Grafana Git Sync, a powerful new feature that enables seamless dashboard-as-code workflows. Git Sync bridges the gap between Grafana's UI and your version control system, allowing you to manage dashboards with the same rigor and collaboration practices you use for application code.

Protecting PII in Synthetic Monitoring: How to Monitor Safely

Synthetic monitoring feels like the safest layer in the observability stack. It uses artificial users. It runs scripted journeys. It never touches real customer accounts. Yet this is exactly why many teams overlook the privacy exposure hidden inside it. Synthetic tests often produce screenshots, network captures, HTML snapshots, console logs, authentication artifacts or even short screencasts.

How to Reduce Redundant Data to Save on Cloud Storage Costs

With more and more business organizations adopting cloud storage to handle their data, the problem of redundancy or duplication of files has become of great concern. Duplicated information does not only eat up the precious storage space but also increases expenditure and lowers productivity. The reason why companies end up paying to store files that they do not require is because duplication of files over time occurs particularly when more than one team or department is doing a common project. Learning to detect and remove duplicate data is a key to the cost control and ability to manage data in general.

How To Transition to Full Time Student Programs Without Affecting Your Legal Status

A major issue that international students in Canada usually experience is the need to transfer to full time programs and at the same time maintain their immigration status. The rules of the study permits should be understood and legal status should be maintained to ensure an easy transition. Any mistake can cause complications that can affect the further employment opportunities or permanent residence permits. Students planning to take advantage of the Canadian immigration policies by ensuring that they maximize their educational time must plan carefully and be aware of the various immigration policies used by the Canadians.

Why do companies buy Exposure Management Platforms?

For the better part of two decades, the cybersecurity industry has been running on a treadmill. We call it "Vulnerability Management," but in practice, it's often little more than a never-ending game of "Whac-A-Mole." Security teams run a scan, generate a 500-page PDF of Critical vulnerabilities, hand it to IT, and pray that patching happens before an exploit does. Then, they repeat the cycle next week.

Zero Downtime: The Role of Smart PLCs in Predictive Ops

Every Operations professional knows the dread of the 3 AM pager duty call. In the software world, this usually means a server crash or a database deadlock. But in the world of manufacturing and physical operations, the stakes-and the costs-are often higher. A halted assembly line in an automotive plant or a pharmaceutical facility can cost upwards of $10,000 per minute.

Bridging the Gap: How Modern PLCs Power IT Analytics

Historically, the manufacturing world has been defined by the "Data Silo." The factory floor-dominated by Operational Technology (OT)-and the server room-governed by Information Technology (IT)-existed as two distinct ecosystems. They spoke different languages, prioritized different metrics, and rarely interacted.