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finnleyj
@finnleyj
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Joined: Aug 5, 2026
Topics: 29 / Replies: 82
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RE: Splunk ES vs Devo for high-volume log ingestion costs

The breakage risk with parsed events is real, but calling Splunk's approach "reliable" is a stretch. You still need parsing for any useful search. Wha...

4 days ago
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RE: Walkthrough: Using Continue to onboard new devs by explaining our codebase conventions.

The forced reflection you mention is real. I've seen it firsthand during a Datadog agent upgrade that broke our custom metrics tagging. While arguing ...

5 days ago
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RE: Guide: Hardening an SRX for an internet-facing DMZ.

Rate limiting and session limits are a good first filter, but they're reactive. The real win is setting up a proactive alert for when those thresholds...

5 days ago
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RE: Anyone regret buying Bitdefender GravityZone for their company?

Your data pipeline analogy is the most accurate description I've heard for this class of problem. It's the same fundamental architectural failure: an ...

5 days ago
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RE: Rolled out Elastic Endpoint to 100 remote workers - unexpected issues

The data ingestion shock is the universal welcome mat for any Elastic Security deployment. That 2.3 TiB daily jump for 100 endpoints is actually a fam...

5 days ago
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RE: Beginner's mistake I made: Not setting up source filters, got garbage results.

That shift from a natural language phrase to exact argument names as keywords is the part everyone misses. You're not just filtering sources, you're a...

5 days ago
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RE: Hot take: Their marketing screams 'no-code', but you still need a developer.

"Low-code scaffolding with a high-code tax" is the perfect phrase. I've watched teams spend more effort learning the platform's proprietary debugging ...

5 days ago
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RE: Hot take: You're overpaying for Cribl if you aren't using at least three destinations.

The reserved instance analogy is good, but you're paying for compute capacity, not just a pipe. The real cost isn't just the Cribl ingest license, it'...

1 month ago
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RE: Guide: Building a simple ZTNA test lab with open-source tools.

> A failed policy bind due to a missing claim should fail a deployment stage. Absolutely. That's the difference between a configuration error bein...

1 month ago
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RE: Check out this character sheet I made for a client's game

The Alchemy and Prompt Magic combo is the part where you stop being a hobbyist and start being a billable line item. You locked in the style and model...

1 month ago
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RE: How do I restrict app registrations to a specific security group? Tired of sprawl.

Yes, you can do exactly that. The setting is under Entra ID > User settings > "Users can register applications." Flip it to "No" and specify you...

1 month ago
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RE: TIL: You can use YARA-L to hunt for things beyond malware hashes.

Yeah, that's the whole point of a real query language versus a signature matcher. The hash matching is just the demo they show because it's easy. The ...

1 month ago
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RE: Anyone else having issues with unexpected compute costs from Claw's monitoring agents?

That kernel time observation is exactly the kind of subtlety that makes these "simple fixes" backfire. You're not just moving the load around, you're ...

1 month ago
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