Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
6 Dimensions Of Data Quality
Have you ever questioned what it takes to be a truly data-driven company? To make important decisions, you must have faith in the accuracy and reliability of your data. Many firms discover that the data they collect is not adequately reliable. 74% think they need to improve their data management to thrive, according to Experian’s … Read more
3 Common Challenges Faced When Deploying Splunk
Deploying Splunk doesn’t come without challenges. It is common knowledge that Splunk is quite a fantastic tool for monitoring and searching through big data. In simplest terms, it indexes and correlates information generated in an IT environment, makes it searchable, and facilitates generating alerts, reports, and visualizations that aid proactive monitoring, threat remediation, and process … Read more
Key elements of observability data pipeline control
Modern IT environments are becoming increasingly distributed in nature. Distributed environments have a large number of interdependent and interconnected parts, making them more susceptible to failure. As businesses evolve, the underlying distributed technology stacks that support them take on more services, infrastructure, and other dependencies, making it ridiculously difficult to watch for and manage failures. … Read more
The difference between monitoring and observability
We live in a complicated world of Enterprise IT and software-driven consumer product design. The internet offers IT infrastructure services from remote data centers. Companies use these services as microservices and containers spread across infrastructure and platform services. Consumers anticipate frequent feature updates over the internet. To fulfill these end-user demands, IT service providers and … Read more
How to Reduce TCO and Infrastructure Costs for your Business?
A large percentage of organizations today tend to spend way too much on compute resources and storage. For instance, investing in high capacity on-premise data centers, to meet the ever-growing demand when the cloud has a more inexpensive alternative. Statistically speaking, on average, small businesses spend approximately 6.9% of their revenue on IT. So, there … Read more
Reigning in high-volume data sources at scale
Gaining business intelligence by sifting through TBs of system-generated data is challenging. Imagine doing this at scale while also having to converge data from disparate and distributed data sources so that your customers, employees, and partners have the data they need precisely when they need it. When dealing with enormous amounts of data, most observability, … Read more
PCI DSS Compliance and Logging: How Apica Can Help
Credit card fraud is a term used to denote fraud committed using credit or debit cards. Credit card fraud is often backed by stolen, unauthorized, leaked, or forced access to payment card information. Attackers commonly gain access to card information through skimming, social engineering, account takeovers, or application fraud. In many cases, system breaches and … Read more
Centralized Linux Log Management Using Apica
Endpoints in an IT environment generate logs related to access, operations, events, and errors. A security breach on an endpoint could direct attackers to the other components and endpoints it connects with, thereby making endpoint logging and monitoring crucial for IT security. Modern IT environments and applications often have multiple endpoints and tiers of infrastructure … Read more
The Importance of Event and Endpoint Logs in Security
Modern organizations are under a constant threat of cyberattacks, unauthorized data access, and identity theft. A simple network monitoring system alone cannot provide enough security for their vast and complex IT infrastructure, customers, and employees. Organizations constantly improve their security posture through: continuous cybersecurity risk assessment tracking security metrics implementing state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions employee and … Read more
8 Best Open Source SIEM Tools
SIEM tools are fast turning into a must-have for security-focused businesses worldwide. With their proven abilities in threat protection, detection, and mitigation, SIEM systems are beneficial in safeguarding businesses from unwanted threats. Our last post explained what SIEM is, the value it adds, how SIEM works, and what to look for in a SIEM solution. … Read more
A Beginner’s Guide to SIEM
IT environments of any organization around the world are constantly under threats of cyberattacks. To stay safe and miles ahead of potential attacks, organizations continually tighten security regulations and focus on reducing their attack surfaces. Constantly improving security is no easy feat and is very challenging. What could help security teams is including SIEM software … Read more
Comparing Log Management SaaS and PaaS Solutions
With the ever-increasing complexity in today’s software stacks, there’s a greater need to ramp up an organization’s observability capabilities to take on challenges brought about by cloud technology. A robust observability mechanism helps organizations detect and remediate issues and threats to their applications and infrastructure well in advance. A log is a crucial component of … Read more
