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REVEALED: How a Retail Giant Cut Security Costs 50% While Boosting Threat Detection

‍This is the third and final post in our "Data Intelligence in Security: The AI Pipeline Revolution" series. In Part 1, we explored why AI-powered security data pipelines have become essential for modern SOCs. Part 2 covered the critical capabilities to evaluate when selecting a solution. Today, we'll share implementation best practices and examine the business impact you can expect.

Metrics Explorer - Search, Query, and Analyze all your Metrics at one place

If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a dashboard dropdown, wondering, “What metrics am I even sending to my observability tool?”, you’re not alone. For most engineering teams, answering even the most basic telemetry questions is about as hard as catching a Mewtwo. Frustratingly elusive and way more complicated than it should be, like: We built Metrics Explorer to finally answer all of these questions instantly, and in one place.

How to Visualize and Explore Your Datalake: Databricks Enterprise Data Source for Grafana

Ready to bring your Databricks data lakehouse to life? In this Grafana quick start, Shawn Pitts walks through how to connect Databricks to Grafana Cloud using the official plugin, available on all tiers — including Cloud Free. We’ll cover: Setting up the Databricks data source Retrieving your Host, HTTP Path, and Token from the Databricks App Exploring data with SQL builder and custom queries in Grafana Creating a cross functional dashboard using live Databricks data.

What Is A Cloud Storage Reseller and How To Become One

The cloud storage market is currently worth an estimated $124.57 billion and is expected to grow to $425.76 billion by 2030, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 24%. As a result, businesses are looking for ways to expand their services and gain a slice of this highly profitable industry by becoming cloud storage resellers. Cloud storage reselling is a means for IT suppliers to create their own cloud platform for customers by partnering with existing cloud providers and reselling their product.

How to Monitor PowerShell Activity and Detect PowerShell Exploitation Vulnerabilities

Why should you monitor PowerShell?…. PowerShell is a powerful automation tool, however its capabilities also make it a prime target for exploitation by cyber attackers. Implementing a robust, automated PowerShell monitoring solution is now essential to detect and prevent exploitation attacks before they compromise your systems. PowerShell is a powerful scripting tool that can automate tasks and manage systems, but its flexibility also makes it a target for abuse.

An Introduction to Ecto for Elixir Monitoring with AppSignal

Database performance can make or break your Elixir application. While Ecto provides a powerful toolkit for database interactions, understanding how these operations perform in production is critical. Whether you're dealing with slow queries, connection pool issues, or mysterious N+1 problems, the ability to effectively monitor and optimize your database operations can be the difference between a sluggish application and one that delights your users.

5 Must-Have Python Plugins for InfluxDB 3 Core & Enterprise

InfluxDB 3 is our latest time series database built for real-time analytics and high-volume data. Its Python Processing Engine lets developers run custom scripts known as plugins to process data, trigger alerts, or integrate with external systems via HTTP web requests. To demonstrate what’s possible, we’ve developed several plugins, all of which are available in the influxdb3_plugins GitHub repository. This public repo is open for anyone to use, modify, and contribute to.

Tracing Just Got a Whole Lot More Useful: Search, Visualize, and Alert with Sentry's new Query Engine

For a while, tracing in Sentry was... fine. You could open up a slow transaction, poke around, find the N+1, and feel like a hero. But if you wanted to answer more complex questions - like why your payment API was getting slower in Europe, or which CDN was silently tanking your image loads - things got harder. We didn't really build it to help with answering broad questions.