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Syslog Protocol: A Reference Guide

Feb 3, 2025 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog

Syslog was developed in the 1980s by Eric Allman as part of the Sendmail project and adopted by many systems over the years. When looking at Syslog, there are a few protocol options, each with slight differences. In this reference guide, I’ll break down the differences so that you have a guide to see these formats when utilizing this protocol.

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9 essential metrics to track for effective IT operations with log management tools

Feb 3, 2025 By Subashree K In Site24x7

Monitoring the correct metrics is crucial for efficient IT operations, as it ensures the smooth functioning of an organization's infrastructure. One crucial aspect of this process is log management, which empowers IT teams to address critical aspects of IT infrastructure, including performance, availability, security, resource usage, and integration.

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How to Discover Advanced Persistent Threats in AWS

Jan 31, 2025 By David Bunting In ChaosSearch

When it comes to managing AWS cloud security, a growing concern for security operations (SecOps teams) is the increasing sophistication of digital threats. While conventional cyber threats deploy widely known tools and techniques in crude, all-or-nothing attempts to breach enterprise security controls, sophisticated attacks known as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) employ more advanced technologies and methods to gain and maintain access to secure systems for long periods of time.

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OpenTelemetry in Production: A Primer

Jan 31, 2025 By Joseph Howell In ObservIQ

OpenTelemetry has emerged as the gold standard fueling o11y and SIEM platforms, but transitioning an existing telemetry stack requires careful planning and execution. This guide outlines a practical approach to evaluating, implementing, and scaling OpenTelemetry in production environments.

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Create a Splunk pipeline to filter, mask, and route logs - without SPL2

Jan 30, 2025 By Splunk In Splunk

In this video, we will take a look at how you can create a Splunk Data Management pipeline to filter, mask and route your logs with using any SPL2 code. For this demo we have used Ingest Processor to build our pipeline but the same concept can be used for Edge Processor as well.

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Finding Your Way: Using Metrics to Explore Organizational Architecture

Jan 30, 2025 By Piotr Boruc In Coralogix

Imagine being the new developer in a bustling tech company. Everyone is rushing to meet deadlines, and no one has time to explain the tangled web of services, databases, and messaging systems that make up the organization’s architecture. You search high and low for documentation, but the few diagrams you find are outdated or incomplete. Feeling lost? This is where metrics can come to the rescue.

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Realizing the business value of OpenTelemetry-native observability

Jan 30, 2025 By David Hope In Elastic

Transform your organization's observability strategy with open standards and simplified data collection Modern organizations face an unprecedented observability challenge. As systems grow more complex and distributed, traditional monitoring approaches are struggling to keep pace. With data volumes doubling every two years and systems spanning multiple clouds and technologies, organizations need a new approach to maintain visibility into their operations.

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Integrating Google SecOps with Bindplane January 2025

Jan 30, 2025 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ

Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle) is Google Cloud's security operations platform (SIEM) that helps you detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. Integrating Bindplane enables an easy way of standardizing how you efficiently collect, process, and forward security-relevant data to Google SecOps. In this webinar you’ll get a hands-on demo of how to configure log collection with the BindPlane Agent, and best practices for data standardization using open standards and OpenTelemetry. This will let you focus on the important task of investigating threats with Google SecOps instead of configuring telemetry pipelines.

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The power of cloud native observability

Jan 29, 2025 By Sumo Logic In Sumo Logic

Unstructured data clouding your observability goals? Learn why monitoring alone cannot solve business-critical performance issues as Sr. Director of Technical Marketing Adam White explains how combining structured and unstructured data with real-time analytics unlocks dynamic insights into root cause analysis and performance management in the cloud.

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The problem with traditional log management

Jan 29, 2025 By Sumo Logic In Sumo Logic

Logs are everywhere and contain valuable information that can make or break everything from security investigations to avoiding an outage, but legacy log management systems are inefficient for modern organizations generating more data than ever before. Sr. Director of Technical Marketing Adam White offers guidance on the pitfalls of traditional log management and what your organization can do today to jumpstart your digital transformation journey!

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