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Complete Guide: Understanding and Preventing DCSync Attacks

Gaining insights into DCSync attacks is key to fortifying your Active Directory (AD) against these sophisticated threats. By exploiting legitimate AD replication protocols, attackers can discreetly extract sensitive information, such as password hashes and Kerberos tickets. Recognizing these attack vectors enables you to implement more effective monitoring and auditing tools, enhancing your overall security posture.

Curated dashboards in Honeybadger

Earlier this year, we introduced a new logging and performance monitoring tool, Honeybadger Insights. You can finally send your logs, application events, and telemetry data to Honeybadger! Once you do, you can query your logs and events to diagnose performance issues, perform root-cause analyses, and create beautiful charts and dashboards to see what's happening in real time.

Lessons From Our Fathers: On Network Operations Tools and Expertise

“It’s the network again.” That is what most people think of when they experience degradation in their digital interactions. Whether it’s an app that won’t load, a 404 error, or garbled speech in a streaming conversation—the network’s reputation always seems to take a hit when things go wrong. Battling this perception with facts is essential. This requires knowing what’s up, what’s down, and what’s affected.

How Dell successfully migrated to Grafana Cloud and consolidated its observability in the process

While some monitoring tools excel at a specific task, observability works best when you have a holistic view of your system. You need a platform capable of working with all of your telemetry collectively, otherwise you can end up with a complex, inefficient, and expensive collection of incongruent, siloed tools. That’s what one team at Dell Technologies realized before they made a switch to Grafana Cloud last year.

Feature Friday #14: variablesmatching() & variablesmatching_as_data()

Did you know you can find variables by name and tag? Like the ability to find currently defined classes (as described in Feature Friday #13: classesmatching()) that match a name or tag, you can find variables by name and tag. It’s a nifty capability. variablesmatching() returns a list of variable names that match the name and tag criteria.1 variablesmatching_as_data() returns a data container of the matching variables along with their values2.

Focus on code that matters with source code previews in Continuous Profiler

The use of code profiling to troubleshoot application performance can appear daunting to the uninitiated, and many software engineers even assume that this domain is reserved for niche specialists. But here at Datadog, one of the key goals for our Continuous Profiler product has been to take this seemingly intimidating practice of code profiling and make it more accessible to engineers at all levels.

Introducing the Ivanti Marketplace: A Platform for Evolving Business Needs

The Ivanti Marketplace, a platform tailored to meet changing business requirements. It boasts a user-friendly interface, handpicked solutions, and self-service features. Ivanti's partners contribute unique solutions to enhance Ivanti's product range. The marketplace showcases numerous solutions categorized with comprehensive descriptions and cross-referencing. Ivanti is dedicated to providing powerful solutions and empowering customers in the everywhere work era.

AWS GP2 Vs. GP3 Volumes: A Side-By-Side Comparison

Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is an efficient and durable block storage service. It is especially great for rapidly changing data on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Besides, Amazon EBS GP volumes promise a balance between performance and cost savings. In this guide, we see if that is the case. We’ll also tell if switching from your current EBS volume type is worth the while.