Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

July 2023

How to Remove Fields with Empty Values From Your Logs

Much of the log data we handle doesn’t offer substantial insight and can be conveniently removed from your logs, helping us reduce costs. What may seem like a small adjustment, like deleting an attribute, can have significant implications when scaled up. A typical case involves fields in your logs presenting empty values or housing data considered irrelevant. Below we’ll take a look at a few examples of what this looks like and how you can take action in BindPlane OP.

Dashboard Fridays: Public Releases

Build using the Jira and Pendo plugins, this SquaredUp dashboard provides a sense of how popular our latest Dashboard Server release is with customers, and whether any bugs have been raised against it. We can now get a quick overview of any issues in the latest release that are affecting our customers. Plus, through the level of uptake of the new release, we can see if we have achieved the level of quality that we were aiming for.

SysAdmin Appreciation Day: Honoring the Heroes of the IT World

System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as SysAdmin Day, has been celebrated on the last Friday in July since it was created in 2000 by Ted Kekatos. It is a special day dedicated to acknowledging the contributions of system administrators and IT professionals who play a vital role in managing and maintaining the technology infrastructure of organizations.

Simplify managing Grafana Tempo instances in Kubernetes with the Tempo Operator

I’ve been working with Grafana Tempo for about half a year now, and one thing I like about it is that Tempo requires only object storage for storing traces, which is easy to set up in both cloud environments and on-premises. Another outstanding feature is TraceQL, which allows searching for relevant traces with a powerful query language.

Your First 100 Days With Cribl: Why Having an Onboarding Process Matters

The process of adding new data to operations and security analytics tools is familiar to admins. New data onboarding can be a tiresome process that takes up too much time and delays getting value from the new data. The process typically begins with the admin engaging the data source owner, getting the wrong data sample, and then having to try again.

The Basics of Cloud Infrastructure Management

Cloud Infrastructure Management is the most efficient way to manage your IT resources in a flexible and decentralized way. This type of IT infrastructure provides the scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness required to meet the dynamic demands of organizations of all sizes. Because of this, many business in today's work environment opt for this model.