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The AI Is Calling From Inside the House: A Third-Party Risk Horror Story
The calls will keep coming from inside the house. The difference is that now you know who's on the line. Pull off the mask, rank by blast radius, and make the front door the easiest way in. The post The AI Is Calling From Inside the House: A Third-Party Risk Horror Story…
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Demystifying Workload Management in Splunk OnPrem Environment: Concepts, Best Practices, and Real‑World Insights
By Kamal Dorairaj, Senior Splunk Consultant As Splunk deployments grow in scale and complexity, effectively managing system resources becomes critical to platform stability and user experience. Workload Management (WLM) is one of Splunk’s most powerful—but commonly…
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The Observability Contract Trap
By Brad Bell, Principal Observability Lead Two years ago your team ran a proof of concept, the numbers looked great, and you signed a multi-year observability contract at a rate everyone was happy with. Now the renewal is in front of you, the bill has tripled, and nobody did…
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eBPF Observability with Beyla: Instrument Everything Without Touching the Code
By Brad Bell, Principal Observability Lead You want traces and golden-signal metrics from your two hundred services. The problem is the instrumentation backlog: a third of those services are older code nobody wants to recompile, another third are in languages your team hasn’t…
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The Real TCO of Self-Managed Grafana
By Brad Bell, Principal Observability Lead “Grafana is free” might be the most expensive sentence in observability. It’s also true, which is what makes it dangerous. The software genuinely costs nothing to download, and the team that self-hosts to save money is not wrong about…
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Who Watches the Judge? Calibrating LLM-as-a-Judge
By Brad Bell, Principal Observability Lead LLM-as-a-judge is the backbone of production AI evaluation, and an uncalibrated judge is a confident hallucination with a decimal point. The discipline that decides whether your quality scores mean anything. You cannot put a human on…
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The Formula for Success: Preserving Your Special Excel Formula in Name Manager
By William Phelps, Senior Technical Architect Microsoft Excel remains a critical tool in day-to-day business. Undoubtedly you have received a spreadsheet from a colleague or prospect where the file is chock-full of complicated formulas, or you have been the sender of such a…
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Splunk Cloud Cost Optimization: Data Model Acceleration — The Hidden SVC Multiplier
By Trevor Savage, Splunk Consultant II If you run Splunk Cloud with Enterprise Security and you’ve ever audited your top SVC utilization by user, you’ve almost certainly missed one of your largest, most consistent compute costs. It isn’t a runaway dashboard or a power user with…
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AI-Driven Cybersecurity: What Actually Works
By Dr. Jason Green, Solutions Engineer AI-driven cybersecurity, or the use of AI, machine learning and behavioral analytics to detect threats, prioritize risk, support automated response and enable proactive cyber defense, is a growing priority for security teams. This is…