Streamlining runtime diagnostics with on-demand profiling: Inside Roblox’s observability stack

Each day, more than 70 million active users sign into Roblox to create, play, and interact with each other through virtual experiences. And regardless of what those experiences are, exactly — adopting a pet, completing an obstacle course, or fulfilling orders at a virtual pizza parlor — the Roblox observability…

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Mobile app observability with OpenTelemetry, Embrace, and Grafana Cloud

We are excited to announce an expansion of our partnership with Embrace to bring mobile observability to our users using open standards like OpenTelemetry.  We first worked with Embrace last year when they created a plugin for Grafana that gives mobile teams an easy way to visualize and analyze real-time…

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Grafana update: Service account tokens are replacing API keys

TL;DR All existing API keys will continue working seamlessly. Grafana Terraform provider api_key resource has been removed in v3. Scripts or provisioning tools such as Terraform that provision API keys in Grafana will need to migrate their automation to use service account tokens. Enhancing security and providing flexible access control…

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Improved anomaly detection and faster root cause analysis: the latest features in Grafana Cloud Application Observability

In recent years, “the biggest needs we’ve heard from our customers have been to make it easier to understand their observability data, to extend observability into the application layer, and to get deeper, contextualized analytics,” said Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana Labs, at ObservabilityCON 2023. In response to that, last…

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Understanding Broken Function Level Authorization

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow your applications to talk to one another, like an application-to-application iMessage or Signal. If you’ve ever texted a message to the wrong group chat, you’ve created a situation that mimics what broken function level authentication does between users and applications. By giving this other group…

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Threat Detection and Incident Response with MITRE ATT&CK and Sigma Rules

Being a security analyst tracking down threats can feel like being the Wile E. Coyote to an attacker’s Road Runner. You’re fast, but they’re faster. You set up alerts, but they still manage to get past your defenses. You’re monitoring systems, but they’re still able to hide their criminal activities.…

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Announcing Graylog 6.0.3

Announcing Graylog 6.0.3 This is a bug-fix release that improves Graylog’s functionality. Please read on for information on what has changed.   Download Links DEB and RPM packages are available in our repositories Container images Graylog Open Graylog Enterprise Graylog Data Node Tarballs for manual installation Graylog Server Graylog Server…

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Understanding The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)

The 2020 EU Cybersecurity Strategy, published by the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, aimed to establish safeguards against security risks arising from increased digital connectivity. As part of the strategy, the strategy included updates to Directive (EU) 2022/2555 on measures…

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