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What Is MTBF? Mean Time Between Failures Explained in Detail

Time for another installment in the series where we explain in detail yet another important metric for tech organizations. After covering MTTD and MTTF, today we answer the question, “What is MTBF?” As the post title makes clear, MTBF stands for “Mean time between failures.” The acronym refers—like the others that came before it—to an important DevOps KPI. But what actually is it? What is it good for? How do I implement it?

Elastic Stack Features (formerly X-Pack) Alternatives: Free, Open Source, Commercial and Cloud Services Comparison

Elastic Stack Features (formerly X-Pack) is an Elastic Stack extension that bundles security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, and graph capabilities. One could use either all or specific components. People love Splunk. But not its price. So people are always on a lookout for a good Splunk alternative. Many of those people migrated from Splunk to ELK Stack or Hosted ELK Stack solutions like Logsene.

Unleashing a Better Open Source: Introducing Logz.io Cloud Observability Platform

Today, I am proud to announce the release of Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring, a Grafana-based monitoring solution that enables engineers to speed up detection and reduce time to resolution. This new offering extends our Log Management and Cloud Security (Cloud SIEM) products, which together form Logz.io’s new Cloud Observability Platform.

Logz.io Enhancements and Changes with Kibana 7

We are happy to inform you that we are upgrading our user interface to support Kibana 7 for Logz.io! Kibana 7 offers users a long list of UI and UX enhancements that will make monitoring and troubleshooting your environment a much simpler and nicer experience. These enhancements include a cross-app dark theme, a new time picker, new filtering, a better dashboarding experience, and most importantly – a significant boost in performance. Shall we take a closer look?

Kibana Lens Overview: An easy, intuitive way to visualize Elasticsearch data

Introducing Kibana Lens, a new simple and intuitive way for everyone to visualize their data inside of Kibana. With a new drag and drop interface, one-click data exploration features, and the power to provide visualization suggestions, Lens is the fastest way to uncover insights in your Elasticsearch data.

Elastic Stack 7.5.0 released

We’re excited to announce the general availability of version 7.5 of the Elastic Stack. Along with the introduction of Kibana Lens, a fast and intuitive way to craft visualizations, this release offers significant enhancements to our Observability and Security solutions and Elastic Enterprise Search joins the 7.5 release train. Read on to see the highlights and dive into the detailed release posts for all the details.

Preventing and mitigating data loss with Graylog

If you’re handling sensitive information, dealing with data loss can be more than just a headache. Log management tools such as Graylog can enhance your incident response and management strategies, and help you mitigate the damage when a breach occurs in your database. Minimizing data loss with a fast and scalable logging solution is key if you want to bring your cybersecurity to the next level.

What Is MTTF? Mean Time to Failure Explained in Detail

“What is MTTF?” That’s the question we’ll answer with today’s post. Yep, the article’s title makes it evident that the acronym stands for “mean time to failure.” But that, on its own, doesn’t say anything. What does “mean time to failure” actually mean? Why should you care? That’s what today’s post covers in detail.