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Google Cloud partnered with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) on a research study to uncover the secrets of successful platform engineering teams.

During the development of your program, you might rely on simple println() statements to trace program execution flows and identify issues in your code. But as projects grow in size and complexity, print statements quickly become messy. A better approach to tracing program execution is logging, an approach that provides a consistent and organized way to track your application’s behavior, allowing you to systematically identify and resolve issues.

In the digital era, state and local governments are increasingly tasked with managing vast volumes of data while ensuring compliance with stringent regulatory requirements. These regulations, which can vary significantly depending on jurisdiction, often require the retention of data for extended periods — sometimes ranging from one to seven years.

In formal terms, OpenTelemetry is an open source framework used for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data for applications, services, and infrastructure. It provides vendor-neutral tools, SDKs and APIs for generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs to any observability backend, including both open source and commercial tools.

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!

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.

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?

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!