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7 Quick Tips for Working with Traces in OpenTelemetry

Apr 25, 2023 By Felicia Dorng In Cribl

Avoiding vendor lock-in is a ‘must’ when it comes to working with new services. Those in ITOps, DevOps, or as an SRE also don’t want to be tied to specific vendors when it comes to their telemetry data. And that’s why OpenTelemetry’s popularity has surged lately. OpenTelemetry prevents you from being locked into specific vendors for the agents that collect your data.

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Monitoring service performance: An overview of SLA calculation for Elastic Observability

Apr 24, 2023 By Philipp Kahr In Elastic

Elastic Stack provides many valuable insights for different users. Developers are interested in low-level metrics and debugging information. SREs are interested in seeing everything at once and identifying where the root cause is. Managers want reports that tell them how good service performance is and if the service level agreement (SLA) is met. In this post, we’ll focus on the service perspective and provide an overview of calculating an SLA.

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Introducing CrowdStream: A New Native CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Capability Powered by Cribl

Apr 24, 2023 By Abby Strong In Cribl

We’re excited to announce an expanded partnership with CrowdStrike and introduce CrowdStream, a powerful new native platform capability that enables customers to seamlessly connect any data source to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.

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Getting Data In: 4 Ways to Ingest Data into Splunk

Apr 24, 2023 By Splunk In Splunk
The first step to unlocking the power of Splunk is to get access to your data. No matter what data type or structure it is, Splunk can read it. Watch this video to learn about the four main ways to get your data into Splunk. Including, securely sending lossless data streams by installing the Universal Forwarder on your Linux or Windows host, easily ingesting cloud data sources (e.g., AWS, Azure, and GCP) via Guided Data Onboarding, creating data inputs for virtually any TCP or UDP data traffic, and using the HTTP Event Collector (HEC) to ingest web and app data.
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Cloud Monitoring Console's Health Dashboard: Maximize Your Monitoring Efficiency

Apr 24, 2023 By Ritika Saini In Splunk
Are you a Splunk Cloud admin tired of sifting through various tools and dashboards to monitor the health of your Splunk Cloud deployment? Do you often find yourself wondering what actions you can take to keep your Splunk Cloud deployment running smoothly? Are you looking for ways to be alerted before something impacts your deployment performance? Look no further than the Cloud Monitoring Console's Health Dashboard!
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How the All-In Comprehensive Design Fits into the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture

Apr 22, 2023 By Cribl In Cribl
Join Cribl's Ed Bailey and Ahmed Kira as they provide more detail about the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture, which is designed to help observability admins achieve faster and more valuable stream deployment. During this live stream discussion, Ed and Ahmed will explain the guidelines for deploying the comprehensive reference architecture to meet the needs of large customers with diverse, high-volume data flows. They will also share different use cases and discuss the pros and cons of using the comprehensive reference architecture.
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How to Mask Sensitive Data in Logs with BindPlane OP Enterprise

Apr 21, 2023 By Ryan Goins In ObservIQ
Logs often contain sensitive data, including personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers. To maintain security and comply with data protection regulations, it’s crucial to mask this data before storing it in your log analytics tool. BindPlane OP streamlines this process with the Mask Sensitive Data processor, ensuring your logs are safe and compliant.
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Adding a Log Record Attribute

Apr 21, 2023 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
Check out how to standardize telemetry by adding metadata to the log record. By tagging appropriately, one can not only enrich, but also have the flexibility to route anywhere avoiding vendor lock-in. #telemetry #opensource #observability About ObservIQ: observIQ is developing the unified telemetry platform: a fast, powerful and intuitive next-generation platform built for the modern observability team. Rooted in OpenTelemetry, our platform is designed to help teams reduce, simplify, and standardize their observability data.
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