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    Why CDN Monitoring Is Harder Than It Looks

    Billions of log lines, four CDN log sources, one kickoff. How to build CDN monitoring that doesn’t collapse when traffic spikes 10x.

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    Sep 29, 2026

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    Bot Detection Techniques That Work at Scale

    Learn about bot detection techniques that work at scale.

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    Sep 11, 2026

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    AI Traffic Analytics: What Enterprise Teams Need Beyond Bot Blocking

    Managed rule sets and CAPTCHA tiers made commodity bot blocking table stakes.

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    Sep 8, 2026

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    Should I Use Splunk For Threat Hunting?

    Splunk is a credible threat hunting platform, but ingest pricing and retention limits often filter out the high-volume logs hunters need most.

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    Aug 25, 2026

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    Bot Intelligence vs Bot Management: Detection Isn’t the Same as Understanding

    Bot management blocks traffic at the edge. Bot intelligence explains bot behavior over time. Why you need both to manage AI agents and automated traffic.

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    Aug 11, 2026

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    How to Monitor Your CDN for Security and Performance

    Performance and security monitoring usually run as separate workflows, but they draw on the same CDN log stream, and the signals that matter most only…

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    Jul 17, 2026

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    Getting Started with CDN Monitoring

    A CDN status page can show 100 percent uptime while users in one region quietly receive stale or broken content, because aggregate metrics confirm the…

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    Jul 10, 2026

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    Bot Management: What Works in 2026?

    Automated requests are more than 50% of all HTML web traffic. Bots now outnumber humans on the open web.

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    Jul 2, 2026

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    Faster Splunk Dashboards With Hydrolix Summary Tables

    With Hydrolix summary tables, cut query scan volume by up to 99.6%, keeping Splunk dashboards fast without sampling or short retention windows.

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    Jun 30, 2026