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What is the Benefit of Including Security with Your Observability Strategy?

Observability strategies are needed to ensure stable and performant applications, especially when complex distributed environments back them. Large volumes of observability data are collected to support automatic insights into these areas of applications. Logs, metrics, and traces are the three pillars of observability that feed these insights. Security data is often isolated instead of combined with data collected by existing observability tools.

A Beginner's Guide to Structured Logging

Structured logging is a methodical approach to log management in software development, often utilizing JSON or key-value pairs. This method enhances the comprehensibility and analytical efficiency of log data, particularly in complex and distributed system environments. Unlike unstructured logs, which lack a defined format, structured logs adhere to a standardized layout, facilitating streamlined analysis and troubleshooting.

Let's Put on a Show With Cribl's Search Sandbox!

Remember when you were a kid and your school put on a production of the latest grade school drama? Maybe you didn’t get the lead role, but it was fun to put on (or watch) the show. Search Sandboxes are just like that! Except you get to be the stage manager when searching data. And Search Sandboxes offer you everything you need to make it an all-star performance.

Micro Lesson: A Log's Journey

Meet Rick Jury, Senior Technical Account Manager at Sumo Logic. In this video, Rick talks about the ingestion pipeline and the journey that a log message takes from collection into the Sumo platform, and considerations for administrators around the ingestion pipeline. You will be excited to see how this translates into a search, turning a raw event into a schema and then into actual insights.

Visualize Sumo Logic metrics and logs with Grafana: Introducing the Sumo Logic Enterprise plugin

We are thrilled to announce the addition of a powerful new Enterprise plugin in the Grafana ecosystem: the Sumo Logic Enterprise data source plugin for Grafana. You can now easily connect Sumo Logic to your Grafana instance and correlate your log data with telemetry from all your data sources in one unified Grafana dashboard.

Delivering Value with a Flat Budget

Join us for an important conversation with Cribl's Ed Bailey and Jackie McGuire, as we navigate the intricate balance of maximizing organizational value with a constrained budget. In today's challenging economic climate, where maintaining operations often means minimal to no additional spending, adaptive strategies become crucial. This is more than just a best-case scenario; it's a necessary approach for business resilience. Ed and Jackie will share innovative ideas and strategies to help leaders skillfully manage tight budgets while delivering significant value to their organizations.

Dashboard Studio Feature Highlights in Splunk Enterprise 9.2

With every major Splunk Enterprise release, we level up your dashboarding experience so that you can visualize and take action on your data fast. In Splunk Enterprise 9.2, we are bringing the experience across Classic (SimpleXML) dashboards and Dashboard Studio closer together and weaving in Dashboard Studio features from the two most recent Splunk Cloud Platform releases. This blog post covers the major dashboarding features included in Splunk Enterprise 9.2.

Log Less, Achieve More: A Guide to Streamlining Your Logs

Businesses are generating vast amounts of data from various sources, including applications, servers, and networks. As the volume and complexity of this data continue to grow, it becomes increasingly challenging to manage and analyze it effectively. Centralized logging is a powerful solution to this problem, providing a single, unified location for collecting, storing, and analyzing log data from across an organization’s IT infrastructure.

Evaluating New Tools with Cribl

Discover how Cribl's suite of products can be utilized to assess security and analytics tools, thereby reducing the duration of POVs and simplifying the process of tool migrations. Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, empowers organizations to transform their data strategy. Customers use Cribl's suite of products to collect, process, route, and analyze all IT and security data, delivering the flexibility, choice, and control required to adapt to their ever-changing needs.