The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Open source log file analytics specialist InfluxData is insistent that we should take a ‘metrics first’ approach ...

Essentially, log files are the raw record of an interaction with a website. They are reported by the website’s server and typically include information about users and bots, the pages they interact ...

Crawl budget optimization is crucial for focusing the attention of search engine crawlers onto your website’s most important pages each time they visit. Some of the key benefits of improving crawl ...

I remember the days of prepping before client meetings by scouring through tons of log files to tell the client how much traffic they were getting from their web site. This was pre-Urchin analytics ...

Zero-trust access is a rigorous security model that is increasingly becoming the benchmark for companies and governments. It shifts away from traditional perimeter-based security to continuously ...

Last week Google officially announced it would be retiring its Urchin Software web analytics technology-- a move that was a long time coming. Since Google acquired Urchin Software in 2005, it has made ...

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Splunk derives its name from the American term for potholing or ...