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Grafana Blog

How volumetric sampling makes the most of your trace budget in Grafana Cloud

Tracing is one of the richest observability signals, but it's also noisy and susceptible to data bloat.  In a busy system, the vast majority of traces describe the same healthy, fast, successful request over and over, so most organizations downsample their traces to cut costs. But that approach has consequences, since the sampling strategy you choose determines whether you get a faithful picture of your whole system, or just a smaller, blurrier copy of your busiest endpoints. We want to help you

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DZone

Why AWS and Azure Handle Data Perimeter Differently

AWS can send audit logs to an attacker’s account unless denials are enforced at the network layer, while Azure doesn’t log network-block requests at all.  The concept of a data perimeter was popularized by AWS [1] to establish organizational boundaries around identities, resources, and networks. In simple terms, AWS provides access controls to ensure that trusted identities access trusted resources from expected networks while blocking all outside access.

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SecurityWeek

WordPress 7.0.4 Patches Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Attackers with Author-level user or higher permissions could exploit the flaw via malicious Postscript files. The post WordPress 7.0.4 Patches Remote Code Execution Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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