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Cribl Surpasses $200M ARR!

I’m so excited to share that Cribl recently surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue! This milestone and our rapid growth comes down to one thing: Solving real problems for our customers. The more our customers partner with us and use Cribl products to simplify their telemetry data management, the more our business grows and the more milestones we’ll hit together. Thank you to our fantastic customers and partners who have helped us reach this point in our journey!

SLF4J vs Log4j: Key Differences and Choosing the Right One

When building robust, maintainable, and scalable Java applications, logging plays an essential role in debugging, monitoring, and ensuring smooth performance. Two of the most widely used logging frameworks in the Java ecosystem are SLF4J and Log4j. While both serve similar purposes, they offer different approaches and features, making it important to understand their differences before making a choice.

Serilog: Configuration, Error Handling & Best Practices

When building modern.NET applications, logging is one of those things you don’t want to get wrong. Serilog steps in as a popular logging framework that has earned its spot as a go-to tool for developers. Why? Because it’s flexible, versatile, and does an awesome job of giving you clear insights into your app's behavior. But what exactly is Serilog?

Log Levels: Different Types and How to Use Them

When you're working with logs in software development, one key thing to understand is log levels. They help us organize log messages, making it easier to find and analyze the most important ones. In this guide, we'll walk through what log levels are, why they matter, and how to use them effectively. Let’s get started!

Must-Have Features for Your Log Management Software

With so many choices available to us today, choosing log management software that’s just right for us has never been simpler. That is, if you know exactly what it is you are looking for. But for many users, the sheer amount of computer programs that perform the same tasks, and seem so similar(sometimes almost identical) to each other, can quickly become off-putting and confusing.

Open source log management tools in 2025

Log management tools provide visibility into the performance and behavior of systems, applications, networks, and infrastructure components. By collecting and analyzing logs, you can monitor for anomalies, track trends, and identify potential issues before they escalate. Choosing the right log management solution requires careful consideration of several factors to ensure that it meets your specific needs and goals. Here are the most popular open source log management tools to help you choose.

Golang Monitoring using OpenTelemetry

When it comes to monitoring Golang applications, there are various tools and practices you can use to gain insights into your application's performance, resource usage, and potential issues. By using OpenTelemetry for monitoring in your Go applications, you can gain valuable insights into the behavior, performance, and resource utilization of your distributed systems, allowing you to troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and improve the overall reliability of your software.

How Telemetry Pipelines Save Your Budget

This is an updated version of an earlier blog post to reflect current definitions of a telemetry pipeline and additional capabilities available in Mezmo Our recent blog post about observability pipelines highlighted how they centralize and enable telemetry data actionability. A key benefit of telemetry pipelines is users don't have to compare data sets manually or rely on batch processing to derive insights, which can be done directly while the data is in motion.

How to Use Static Thresholds for Effective Alerts in Splunk Observability Cloud

In this video, we explore the concept of static thresholds, which are a foundational tool in your observability alerting solution. You’ll learn: Additionally, we will demonstrate static thresholds in Splunk Observability Cloud. We’ll configure a static threshold for AWS EC2 memory utilization. We’ll also look at additional threshold settings like trigger sensitivity and duration. By the end of this video, you'll have the knowledge to effectively incorporate static thresholds into your observability strategy.