Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

April 2024

Cribl

The State of the Industry With Security Expert Matt Johansen

Apr 30, 2024 By Ed Bailey In Cribl
In this livestream, I talked to security expert Matt Johansen, a computer security veteran who has helped defend everyone from startups to the largest financial companies in the world. We talked about the current state of cybersecurity, why attacks are on the rise, and what can be done to prevent threats in the future. Matt’s blog covers the latest news in cybersecurity and also touches on mental health and personal growth for tech professionals.
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logitio

OpenSearch vs Solr

Apr 30, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
Constructing a robust search engine functionality for your application or website is crucial to achieving effective monitoring and analysis. When discussing the best and most appropriate open-source search engines, two particularly popular solutions arise, OpenSearch and Solr. These solutions are very similar, offering the majority of the same features, capabilities, and use cases. However, there are differences between the two search engines that make them better tailored for particular scenarios.
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observo ai

The Modern SOC Platform

Apr 30, 2024 By Bryan Turriff In Observo.ai
On April 24, 2024, Francis Odum, released his research report titled, “The Evolution of the Modern Security Data Platform” in The Software Analyst Newsletter. This report examines the evolution of modern security operations, tracing its evolution from a reactive approach to a proactive approach. It highlights the shift towards automation, threat intelligence integration, and controlling the costs of ingesting and storing data as crucial elements in enhancing cyber defense strategies.
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chaossearch

How to Threat Hunt in Amazon Security Lake

Apr 29, 2024 By David Bunting In ChaosSearch
Establishing a proactive security posture involves a data-driven approach to threat detection, investigation, and response. In the past, this was challenging because there wasn't a centralized way to collect and analyze security data across sources, but with Amazon Security Lake it is much simpler. Whether you're a security company improving and refining your threat intelligence for customers, or you're investigating security threats within your own environment, there are a few important things you need to know. This blog will cover the tools, frameworks and data types you'll need to threat hunt in Amazon Security Lake.
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logitio

Leveraging Log Monitoring for Superior SaaS Performance

Apr 29, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
The combination of cost-effectiveness, scalability, accessibility, rapid deployment, and focus on core competencies has fueled the growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, making them increasingly popular among businesses of all sizes and industries. However, because of this increased dependency on SaaS applications, it has become essential to conduct effective monitoring.
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site24x7

Log-based search and alert queries for syslog monitoring

Apr 29, 2024 By Subashree K In Site24x7
Syslog entries offer crucial information about the health and status of various components within a system or network. Administrators can utilize syslog data to monitor system activities, identify anomalies, and take proactive measures to ensure system stability and security. In this blog, we'll share a few useful queries for monitoring syslog using Site24x7's log management features. These queries are meant to improve network visibility and simplify troubleshooting.
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mezmo

Webinar Recap: Mastering Telemetry Pipelines - A DevOps Lifecycle Approach to Data Management

Apr 26, 2024 By Mezmo In Mezmo
In our webinar, Mastering Telemetry Pipelines: A DevOps Lifecycle Approach to Data Management, hosted by Mezmo’s Bill Balnave, VP of Technical Services, and Bill Meyer, Principal Solutions Engineer, we showcased a unique data-engineering approach to telemetry data management that comprises three phases: Understand, Optimize, and Respond.
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splunk

Availability Zones: The Complete Guide for 2024

Apr 26, 2024 By Shanika Wickramasinghe In Splunk
During the early periods of cloud computing, most organizations used single-location data centers. These single-location data centers often faced higher risks of downtime and service disruption due to localized disasters or hardware failures. As a solution to these problems, cloud services like AWS introduced the concept of availability zones. This introduction was an important milestone in the evolution of cloud computing, as it facilitated high availability through geographic distribution.
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splunk

Build vs. Buy: How To Decide on Software

Apr 25, 2024 By Leanne Mitton In Splunk
To buy or to build... that is the question businesses must ask when deciding to buy off-the-shelf software or create custom software to satisfy their business needs. Deciding whether to buy off-the-shelf software or create custom software is a lot like choosing between a ready-made meal and cooking a meal from scratch. It's a big decision for any business (or hungry person). Let's imagine we're planning dinner...
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Cribl

Observability for Everyone

Apr 25, 2024 By Josh Biggley In Cribl
What do you need to achieve observability? Who you ask and the role they hold will influence the answer, but the answer likely follows this pattern: “You only need is how you define observability.” I cannot disagree with this logic. A specific use case may only need a specific type of telemetry. Experience and expertise allow engineers to quickly answer questions about a system without expanding into adjacent data types.
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Cribl

Simplifying Data Management in the Cloud: How Cribl and AWS' Strategic Collaboration Agreement Benefits Customers

Apr 25, 2024 By Holly Anderson In Cribl
Without collaborations between organizations, the tech industry wouldn’t be where it is today. Customer expectations and needs don’t exist in a silo. They need their tools to work together to solve problems and deliver value regardless of the vendor. With data growth at a 28% CAGR and cybersecurity threats on the rise, customers need their entire suite of tools working for them in a cohesive manner.
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logz.io

KubeCon Europe 2024: Highlights from Paris

Apr 24, 2024 By Dotan Horovits In logz.io
KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris was the biggest event of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to date. With over 12,000 participants, it was a monumental event, setting the stage for the latest trends and developments in cloud-native computing. As your loyal CNCF Ambassador, I’m here to share some of the important updates you don’t want to miss. I also invited fellow CNCF Ambassador Thomas Schuetz to join me with his own insights.
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logitio

Top 10 Docker Container Monitoring Tools

Apr 24, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
Monitoring tools are critical for DevOps, enabling them to quickly find and rectify performance issues. With the increasing popularity of Docker, it has become crucial that organizations can effectively monitor these containers. But, as monitoring Docker containers is particularly complex, developing a strategy and an appropriate monitoring system is not simple. However, this process can be streamlined by utilizing a Docker monitoring tool.
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logz.io

How Lack of Knowledge Among Teams Impacts Observability

Apr 24, 2024 By Jake O'Donnell In logz.io
Without a doubt, you’ve heard about the persistent talent gap that has troubled the technology sector in recent years. It’s a problem that isn’t going away, plaguing everyone from engineering teams to IT security pros, and if you work in the industry today you’ve likely experienced it somewhere within your own teams. Despite major changes in the tech landscape, it is clear that organizations are still having significant difficulty keeping their technical talent in-house.
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logitio

Mastering Observability with OpenSearch: A Comprehensive Guide

Apr 23, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
Observability is the ability to understand the internal workings of a system by measuring and tracking its external outputs. In technical terms, it entails collecting and examining data from numerous sources within a system to attain insights into its behavior, performance, and health. All organizations are now familiar with how essential observability is to ensure optimal performance and availability of their IT infrastructure.
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Cribl

Navigating the Mainframe Logging Maze: Insights for the Modern IT Professional

Apr 23, 2024 By Nick Heudecker In Cribl
Mainframes might seem like relics of a bygone era to many of us in 2024, but the truth, however, is far from that. Despite their reputation as ancient behemoths—and frequent targets of jokes—mainframes continue to be vital powerhouses driving the global economy. Their capability to process billions of transactions daily, including the majority of credit card transactions, underscores their enduring significance.
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elastic

Elastic Universal Profiling: Delivering performance improvements and reduced costs

Apr 23, 2024 By Luca Wintergerst In Elastic
In today's age of cloud services and SaaS platforms, continuous improvement isn't just a goal — it's a necessity. Here at Elastic, we're always on the lookout for ways to fine-tune our systems, be it our internal tools or the Elastic Cloud service. Our recent investigation in performance optimization within our Elastic Cloud QA environment, guided by Elastic Universal Profiling, is a great example of how we turn data into actionable insights.
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logitio

The Top 15 Real-Time Dashboard Examples

Apr 22, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
Monitoring your data with dashboards and visualizations is perfect for improving the efficiency of your team and facilitating data-driven decisions from insights. They provide a different perspective to your data and by utilizing this data and trends you can clearly view if your system, application, or server is performing optimally, and if it isn’t performing as expected you can analyze where the issue is and promptly rectify this.
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elastic

Revealing unknowns in your tracing data with inferred spans in OpenTelemetry

Apr 22, 2024 By Jonas Kunz, In Elastic
In the complex world of microservices and distributed systems, achieving transparency and understanding the intricacies and inefficiencies of service interactions and request flows has become a paramount challenge. Distributed tracing is essential in understanding distributed systems. But distributed tracing, whether manually applied or auto-instrumented, is usually rather coarse-grained.
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mezmo

Open-source Telemetry Pipelines: An Overview

Apr 22, 2024 By Mezmo In Mezmo
Imagine a well-designed plumbing system with pipes carrying water from a well, a reservoir, and an underground storage tank to various rooms in your house. It will have valves, pumps, and filters to ensure the water is of good quality and is supplied with adequate pressure. It will also have pressure gauges installed at some key points to monitor whether the system is functioning efficiently. From time to time, you will check pressure, water purity, and if there are any issues across the system.
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coralogix

Sumo Logic Flex Pricing: Is usage pricing a good idea?

Apr 21, 2024 By Chris Cooney In Coralogix
When discussing observability pricing models, there are three dimensions that must be considered The first, Cost per Unit, is an easy-to-understand metric, but in practice it is often overshadowed by a lack of transparency and predictability for other costs. The question is simple: how does a usage based pricing model impact these variables?
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raygun

C# logging: Best practices in 2023 with examples and tools

Apr 19, 2024 By Shane Duggan In Raygun
Monitoring applications that you’ve deployed to production is non-negotiable if you want to be confident in your code quality. One of the best ways to monitor application behavior is by emitting, saving, and indexing log data. Logs can be sent to a variety of applications for indexing, and you can then refer to them when problems arise.
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logitio

How To Harness the Full Potential of ELK Clusters

Apr 19, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
The ELK Stack is a collection of three open-source projects, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. They operate together to centralize and examine logs and other types of machine-generated data in real time. With the ELK stack, you can utilize clusters for effective log and event data analysis and other uses. ELK clusters can provide significant benefits to your organization, but the configuration of these clusters can be particularly challenging, as there are a lot of aspects to consider.
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Structure of Logs (Part 2) | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana

Apr 19, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
Have you just discovered Grafana Loki? Zero to Hero: Loki is a series of videos that aims to take you through the basics of ingesting, your logs into Grafana Loki an open-source log aggregation solution. In this episode, it's all about the structure of logs. In part 2 we cover the different ways a log can be formatted. ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
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chaossearch

Why Organizations are Using Grafana + Loki to Replace Datadog for Log Analytics

Apr 18, 2024 By David Bunting In ChaosSearch
Datadog is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud monitoring solution that enables multiple observability use cases by making it easy for customers to collect, monitor, and analyze telemetry data (logs, metrics and traces), user behavior data, and metadata from hundreds of sources in a single unified platform.
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logitio

Top 10 Change Management Tools

Apr 18, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
Changes to software are inevitable and fundamental part of growth for any organization, however, change is often not straightforward. It can affect numerous aspects of a company and requires collaboration among all stakeholders. This is where change management tools come in to assist you with this. There’s currently a wide range of change management tools available, each providing benefits to specific scenarios and weaknesses to others.
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datadog

Control your log volumes with Datadog Observability Pipelines

Apr 18, 2024 By Kaushik Akula In Datadog
Modern organizations face a challenge in handling the massive volumes of log data—often scaling to terabytes—that they generate across their environments every day. Teams rely on this data to help them identify, diagnose, and resolve issues more quickly, but how and where should they store logs to best suit this purpose? For many organizations, the immediate answer is to consolidate all logs remotely in higher-cost indexed storage to ready them for searching and analysis.
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datadog

Aggregate, process, and route logs easily with Datadog Observability Pipelines

Apr 18, 2024 By Candace Shamieh In Datadog
The volume of logs generated from modern environments can overwhelm teams, making it difficult to manage, process, and derive measurable value from them. As organizations seek to manage this influx of data with log management systems, SIEM providers, or storage solutions, they can inadvertently become locked into vendor ecosystems, face substantial network costs and processing fees, and run the risk of sensitive data leakage.
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datadog

Dual ship logs with Datadog Observability Pipelines

Apr 18, 2024 By Kaushik Akula In Datadog
Organizations often adjust their logging strategy to meet their changing observability needs for use cases such as security, auditing, log management, and long-term storage. This process involves trialing and eventually migrating to new solutions without disrupting existing workflows. However, configuring and maintaining multiple log pipelines can be complex. Enabling new solutions across your infrastructure and migrating everyone to a shared platform requires significant time and engineering effort.
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elastic

Migrating from Elastic's Go APM agent to OpenTelemetry Go SDK

Apr 17, 2024 By Damien Mathieu In Elastic
As we’ve already shared, Elastic is committed to helping OpenTelemetry (OTel) succeed, which means, in some cases, building distributions of language SDKs. Elastic is strategically standardizing on OTel for observability and security data collection. Additionally, Elastic is committed to working with the OTel community to become the best data collection infrastructure for the observability ecosystem.
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Optimizing cloud resource costs with Elastic Observability and Tines

Apr 17, 2024 By Rob Kernutt, In Elastic
In today's cloud-centric landscape, managing and optimizing cloud resources efficiently is paramount for cloud engineers striving to balance performance and cost-effectiveness. By leveraging solutions like Tines and Elastic, cloud engineering teams can streamline operations and drive significant cost savings while maintaining optimal performance.
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Cribl

Charting New Waters with Cribl Lake: Storage that Doesn't Lock Data In

Apr 17, 2024 By Rick Salsa In Cribl
There is an immense amount of IT and security data out there and there’s no sign of slowing down. Our customers have told us they feel like they’re drowning in data. They know some data have value, some don’t. Some might have value in the future. They need some place cost-effective to store it all. Some for just a short while, some for the long haul. But they’re not data engineers. They don’t have the expertise to set up and maintain a traditional data lake.
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logitio

Driving SaaS Excellence Through Observability

Apr 17, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
For SaaS platforms, utilizing observability is crucial, as it’s vital for these companies to deeply understand their users' experience and the root cause of any issues. Observability involves leveraging the appropriate tools and processes in place to effectively track, examine, and troubleshoot the performance and behavior of a system, even if you can't directly see what's happening inside it.
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logicmonitor

Kubernetes - From chaos to insights with AI-driven correlation of Logs and Metrics

Apr 17, 2024 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Written by John Stimmel, Principal Cloud Specialist Account Executive, LogicMonitor It’s common knowledge that Kubernetes (commonly referred to as “K8”s) container management and orchestration provide business value by enabling cloud-native agility and superior customer experiences. By their nature, the speed and agility of Kubernetes platforms come with complexity.
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splunk

9 Best Data Analysis Tools to Work With in 2024

Apr 16, 2024 By Austin Chia In Splunk
Data analysis is crucial in today's businesses and organizations. With the increasing amount of data being created at 328.77 million terabytes of data per day, and them being readily available to most businesses, having efficient tools that can help analyze and interpret this data effectively is essential. In this article, we will discuss the top 9 best data analysis tools currently used in the market today.
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honeybadger

Observable systems with wide events

Apr 16, 2024 By Kevin Webster In Honeybadger
Oh, I didn't see you there. Hi, I'm Kevin, a developer here at Honeybadger. I've worked for the last year or so developing Honeybadger Insights, our new logging and observability platform. Let's peek into some of the design decisions and philosophy behind the product. In modern software development, the hunt for observable systems has traditionally revolved around the holy trinity of logs, metrics, and traces.
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logz.io

Introducing Explore, the New Path for Log Management from Logz.io

Apr 16, 2024 By Adam Cazes In logz.io
Despite advances in the world of observability, log management hasn’t evolved much in recent years. Users are familiar with the experience of Kibana or OpenSearch Dashboards (OSD), but those don’t always meet modern use cases. Logz.io is ready to change the conversation with the introduction of Explore, the new path forward for Log Management for users of the Logz.io Open 360™ observability platform.
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Cribl

Delivering Value in IT and Security with Stagnant Budgets

Apr 16, 2024 By Ed Bailey In Cribl
In a recent live stream, Jackie McGuire and I looked into a crucial topic that many IT and security teams face: delivering value in your organization without budget increases. In this age where technology underpins every facet of business, how can teams maximize their impact with finite resources?
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observo ai

Mastering OpenTelemetry - Part 1

Apr 16, 2024 By Jagmeet Bali In Observo.ai
In the complex world of modern distributed systems, observability is vital. Observability allows engineers to understand what's happening within their systems, debug issues rapidly, and proactively ensure optimal application performance. OpenTelemetry has emerged as a powerful, vendor-neutral solution to address the challenges of observability across different technologies and environments.
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logitio

The Leading Data Dashboard Examples

Apr 15, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
As organizations produce a significant amount of data from varying sources, simple analytics tools can make it challenging and time-consuming to derive insights from this data. Data dashboards can assist with this. A data dashboard is a visual representation of data that offers an at-a-glance view of key performance indicators (KPIs), metrics, and other important information relevant to a particular business, organization, or process.
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Cribl

A New Approach to the Service Model in the Data Industry

Apr 15, 2024 By Ed Bailey In Cribl
In this livestream, I had a great discussion with Paul Stout and Scott Gray from nth degree about how the service model has evolved from a focus on time and materials to outcome-based services. Watch the full conversation here and leave with a roadmap for improving your next service engagement. Security teams often have a love-hate relationship with onboarding new tools.
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elastic

Elastic Universal Profiling agent, a continuous profiling solution, is now open source

Apr 15, 2024 By Israel Ogbole, In Elastic
Elastic Universal Profiling™ agent is now open source! The industry’s most advanced fleetwide continuous profiling solution empowers users to identify performance bottlenecks, reduce cloud spend, and minimize their carbon footprint. This post explores the history of the agent, its move to open source, and its future integration with OpenTelemetry.
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Structure of Logs (Part 1) | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana

Apr 15, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
Have you just discovered Grafana Loki? Zero to Hero: Loki is a series of videos that aims to take you through the basics of ingesting, your logs into Grafana Loki an open-source log aggregation solution. In this episode, it's all about the structure of logs. In part 1 we cover what components make up a log entry. ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.
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GrafanaCON 2024 Keynote: Grafana 11, Loki 3.0, Alloy, Golden Grot Awards, and more | Grafana

Apr 15, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
During GrafanaCON 2024, we came back together in person for the first time since 2019. Grafana Labs CEO and Co-founder Raj Dutt announced the winners of the Golden Grot community dashboard awards, and members of our engineering team made some exciting announcements around our open source observability projects including Loki 3.0 and Alloy. And Torkel Ödegaard, the creator of Grafana, unveiled what’s new in Grafana 11, with some demos.
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Discover Splunk - the unparalleled, most comprehensive full-stack observability solution

Apr 15, 2024 By Splunk In Splunk
How do you become digitally resilient as an organisation? Hear from Maria Nyström, Regional Sales Manager at Splunk Sweden, about how Splunk is helping enterprises get full traceability in their environment. Splunk customers can trace any issue for any user and follow that to the application backend, the specific microservice and the infrastructure it runs on.
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chaossearch

How to Calculate Log Analytics ROI

Apr 12, 2024 By George Hamilton In ChaosSearch
Calculating log analytics ROI is often complicated. For many teams, this technology can be a cost center. Depending on your platform, the cost of a log management solution can quickly add up. For example, many organizations use solutions like the ELK stack because the initial startup costs are low. Yet, over time, costs can creep up for many reasons, including the volume of data collected and ingested per day, required retention periods, and the associated personnel needed to manage the deployment.
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observo ai

Mastering CloudTrail Logs, Part 1

Apr 12, 2024 By The Observo.ai Team In Observo.ai
CloudTrail logs are a type of log generated by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of its CloudTrail service. AWS CloudTrail records API calls made within an AWS account, providing a history of activity including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. For example, CloudTrail events are generated for actions such as EC2 instances start/stop, S3 bucket read/write and IAM user creation/deletion.
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observiq

Enhancing Data Ingestion: OpenTelemetry & Linux CLI Tools Mastery

Apr 11, 2024 By Dylan Myers In ObservIQ
While OpenTelemetry (OTel) supports a wide variety of data sources and is constantly evolving to add more, there are still many data sources for which no receiver exists. Thankfully, OTel contains receivers that accept raw data over a TCP or UDP connection. This blog unveils how to leverage Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) tools, creating efficient data pipelines for ingestion through OTel's TCP receiver.
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logz.io

The Complete Guide to Capacity Management in Kubernetes

Apr 10, 2024 By Israel Efrati In logz.io
In the dynamic world of container orchestration, Kubernetes stands out as the undisputed champion, empowering organizations to scale and deploy applications seamlessly. Yet, as the deployment scope increases, so do the associated Kubernetes workload costs, and the need for effective resource capacity planning becomes more critical than ever. When dealing with containers and Kubernetes you can find yourself facing multiple challenges that can affect your cluster stability and your business performance.
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Setting Up the Latest AWS Observability Solution

Apr 10, 2024 By Sumo Logic In Sumo Logic
The tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to deploy the AWS Observability Solution using the CloudFormation template using the quick and new method. The CloudFormation template being used in this method sets up an automated collection of logs and metrics from AWS to the Sumo Logic service.
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grafana

Loki 3.0 release: Bloom filters, native OpenTelemetry support, and more!

Apr 9, 2024 By Salva Corts, Sandeep Sukhani, Steven Dungan, Julie Stickler In Grafana
Welcome to the next chapter of Grafana Loki! After five years of dedicated development, countless hours of refining, and the support of an incredible community, we are thrilled to announce that Grafana Loki 3.0 is now generally available. The journey from 2.0 to 3.0 saw a lot of impressive changes to Loki. Loki is now more performant, and it’s capable of handling larger scales — all while remaining true to its roots of efficiency and simplicity.
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Find your logs data with Explore Logs: No LogQL required!

Apr 9, 2024 By Mat Ryer, Steven Dungan In Grafana
We are thrilled to announce the preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL. In this post, we’ll cover why we built Explore Logs and we’ll dive deeper into some of its features, including at-a-glance breakdowns by label, detected fields, and our new pattern detection. At the end, we’ll tell you how you can try Explore Logs for yourself today. But let’s start from the beginning — with good old LogQL.
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Cribl

Better, Faster, Stronger Network Monitoring: Cribl and Model Driven Telemetry

Apr 9, 2024 By Ryan Conway In Cribl
New in Cribl 4.5, the Model Driven Telemetry Source enables you to collect, transform, and route Model Driven Telemetry (MDT) data. In this blog, you’ll learn how to explore the YANG Suite to understand the wide variety of datasets available to transmit as well as how to configure the tools to get data flowing from Cisco IOS XE network devices to Cribl Stream.
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sumologic

Crossing the machine learning pilot to product chasm through MLOps

Apr 9, 2024 By Bashyam Anant, David Andrzejewski and Aaishwarya Bansal In Sumo Logic
Numerous companies keep launching AI/ML features, specifically “ChatGPT for XYZ” type productization. Given the buzz around Large Language Models (LLMs), consumers and executives alike are growing to assume that building AI/ML-based products and features is easy. LLMs can appear to be magical as users experiment with them.
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splunk

Why You Need Observability With the Splunk Platform

Apr 8, 2024 By Joanna Zouhour In Splunk
Splunk’s extensible and scalable data platform has been instrumental in helping ITOps teams fully understand their tech environments and tackle any IT use case with data streaming, dashboarding, federated search, AI/ML, and more. But, with the explosion of telemetry and the growing complexity of digital systems, ITOps practitioners who rely solely on a logging solution are missing out on critical insights from their digital systems.
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elastic

5 reasons why observability and security work well together

Apr 8, 2024 By Jennifer Ellard, In Elastic
Site reliability engineers (SREs) and security analysts — despite having very different roles — share a lot of the same goals. They both employ proactive monitoring and incident response strategies to identify and address potential issues before they become service impacting. They also both prioritize organizational stability and resilience, aiming to minimize downtime and disruptions.
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Cribl

The UK Telecommunication Security Act (TSA): When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade

Apr 8, 2024 By Ed Bailey In Cribl
On October 1, 2022, the UK Telecommunications Security Act (TSA) went into effect, imposing new security requirements for public telecom companies. The purpose of the act is noble, as it wants to ensure the reliability and resilience of the UK telecommunications network that underpins virtually every aspect of the economy and modern society.
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logitio

The Leading Stackify Alternatives

Apr 5, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
Stackify Retrace is an application performance management (APM) and log management platform designed to assist developers and DevOps teams in tracking, troubleshooting, and enhancing the performance of their applications and infrastructure. Stackify Retrace effectively combines APM with log management, enabling users to view detailed transaction traces for applications directly from the log statement to provide greater context and visibility for more effective analysis.
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mezmo

SRECon Recap: Product Reliability, Burn Out, and more

Apr 5, 2024 By Mezmo In Mezmo
I recently attended SRECon in San Francisco on March 18 - 20, a show dedicated to a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. While there were a lot of talks, I’ll focus on a few areas that gave me the most insight into how having the right data impacts an SREs and an organization’s success.
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splunk

Open Source vs. Closed Source Software

Apr 4, 2024 By Leanne Mitton In Splunk
In software development, two primary models of software exist: open source and closed source. Both types have their benefits and drawbacks, and understanding the differences between them can help you make informed decisions when choosing software for your projects. To simplify the concepts of open source and closed source software, let’s use the analogy of community cookbooks — open source — and a secret family recipe: the closed source.
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Cribl

Cribl Search Now Supports Email Alerts For Your Critical Notifications!

Apr 4, 2024 By Perry Correll In Cribl
Cribl Search helps find and access data regardless of the format it’s in or where it lives. Search provides a federated solution that reaches into existing object stores and explores data without moving it or having to index it first. This same interface can also connect to APIs, databases, or existing tooling, and can even join results from all these disparate datasets and display them in comprehensive dashboards.
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elastic

Getting started with the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and Microsoft Azure OpenAI

Apr 4, 2024 By Jonathan Simon In Elastic
Recently, Elastic announced the AI Assistant for Observability is now generally available for all Elastic users. The AI Assistant enables a new tool for Elastic Observability providing large language model (LLM) connected chat and contextual insights to explain errors and suggest remediation.
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Announcing the Elastic OpenTelemetry SDK Distributions

Apr 3, 2024 By Steve Gordon In Elastic
Adopting OpenTelemetry native standards for instrumenting and observing applications If you develop applications, you may have heard about OpenTelemetry. At Elastic®, we are enthusiastic about OpenTelemetry as the future of standardized application instrumentation and observability.
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logz.io

How an APM Alternative Helps You Do Observability Right

Apr 3, 2024 By Jake O'Donnell In logz.io
Every software-driven business strives for optimum performance and user experience. Observability—which allows engineering and IT Ops teams to understand the internal state of their cloud applications and infrastructure based on available telemetry data —has emerged as a crucial practice to help engage this process. For years, application performance monitoring (APM) was the de facto practice and tooling that organizations have used to keep tabs on their critical systems.
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coralogix

What If You Could Pull Metrics Out of Your Events?

Apr 3, 2024 By Keren Feldsher In Coralogix
As data keeps growing at incredible rates, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to store and monitor at a reasonable cost leaving you to cherry-pick which data to store. As developers are accustomed to integrating metrics within their logs and spans, this can result in poor monitoring & analysis, alert fatigue, and longer MTTR. Teams are left having to dig out the most relevant data, which results in missed trends and analysis.
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Cribl

The Data Lake Dilemma: Why Businesses Need a New Approach

Apr 3, 2024 By Jackie McGuire In Cribl
In today’s data-driven landscape, every organization knows the immense value their data holds, but with the explosion of data from diverse sources, traditional data storage and management solutions are proving inadequate. Organizations are urgently seeking new ways to handle their data effectively.
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Beginners guide - Visualizing Logs | Grafana

Apr 2, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
In this video, Grafana Developer Advocate Leandro Melendez describes the logs visualization panel, which shows log lines from data sources that support logs, such as Elastic, Influx, and Loki. Typically you would use this visualization next to a graph visualization to display the log output of a related process.
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logz.io

The Challenges of Rising MTTR - And What to Do

Apr 2, 2024 By Jake O'Donnell In logz.io
Data volumes are soaring. Environments are increasingly intricate. The risk of applications and systems encountering breakdowns is sky-high, and the mean time to recovery (MTTR) for production incidents is moving in the wrong direction. Disruptions not only jeopardize critical infrastructure but also have a direct impact on the bottom line of organizations. Swift recovery of affected services becomes paramount, as it directly correlates with business continuity and resilience.
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logitio

Optimizing Operations: A Look At Observability For Manufacturers

Apr 2, 2024 By David Benson In Logit.io
As the automation of processes and deployment becomes more prevalent in the manufacturing industry, the need for IT services grows further. The use of complex systems and technologies, such as AI and robotics has become the new normal for manufacturing organizations.
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elastic

Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation

Apr 2, 2024 By Joel Höner, In Elastic
Observability goes beyond monitoring; it's about truly understanding your system. To achieve this comprehensive view, practitioners need a unified observability solution that natively combines insights from metrics, logs, traces, and crucially, continuous profiling. While metrics, logs, and traces offer valuable insights, they can't answer the all-important "why." Continuous profiling signals act as a magnifying glass, providing granular code visibility into the system's hidden complexities.
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datadog

Filter and correlate logs dynamically using Subqueries

Apr 1, 2024 By Jordan Obey In Datadog
Logs provide valuable information that can help you troubleshoot performance issues, track usage patterns, and conduct security audits. To derive actionable insights from log sources and facilitate thorough investigations, Datadog Log Management provides an easy-to-use query editor that enables you to group logs into patterns with a single click or perform reference table lookups on-the-fly for in-depth analysis.
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Cribl

Welcoming Henry the Honey Badger: The New Face of Cribl

Apr 1, 2024 By Abby Strong In Cribl
At Cribl, we’ve always prided ourselves on solving complex data challenges for our customers, but doing so with a bold spirit and a can-do attitude. Our journey with Ian the Goat as our mascot has been nothing short of incredible. Ian represented our agile and adaptable approach to solving complex data challenges. However, as we pivot towards tackling even bigger data puzzles for our customers, we believe it’s time for our mascot to reflect this evolution.
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splunk

Unlock the Power of Observability with OpenTelemetry Logs Data Model

Apr 1, 2024 By Adam Schalock In Splunk
Your log records may be missing a key ingredient that unlocks the world of observability for your applications, infrastructure and services. If you're building a new application or enhancing an existing one, consider adopting the OpenTelemetry Logs Data Model's Log and Event Record Definition. Adopting this definition enriches your logs by adding additional data, making it easier to use them to correlate them with metrics and traces, in addition to XYZ.
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mezmo

Webinar Recap: How to Manage Telemetry Data with Confidence

Apr 1, 2024 By Mezmo In Mezmo
In our recent webinar hosted by Bill Balnave, VP of Technical Services, and Brandon Shelton, our Solution Architect, we discussed how data's continuous growth and dynamic nature cause DevOps and security teams to lose confidence in their data. The uncertainty about the content of telemetry data, concerns about its completeness, and worries about sending sensitive PII information in data streams reduce trust in the collected and distributed data.
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graylog

Load Balancing Graylog with NGINX: Ultimate Guide

Apr 1, 2024 By The Graylog Team In Graylog
In cybersecurity, “Load Balancing Graylog with Nginx: The Ultimate Guide” is your reference guide. This guide helps to install Nginx. Imagine your Graylog, already proficient at managing vast log data, now enhanced with the Nginx load balancing capability to ensure peak performance. NGINX ensures your Graylog cluster isn’t over-taxed, similar to a well-organized team where work is evenly distributed.
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