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LogDNA Wins 2020 IBM Cloud Embed Excellence Award

We are so excited to announce that LogDNA received the IBM Cloud Embed Excellence Award during the ​IBM Think​ conference on May 5, 2020. IBM Cloud’s Data & AI Excellence Awards recognize the stellar performance of IBM Business Partners who drive extraordinary client experiences and business growth. IBM Log Analysis with LogDNA and IBM Cloud Activity Tracker with LogDNA are built on IKS and are deeply integrated with IBM Cloud.

Splunk & Google Cloud Partnership: Gain Actionable Insights from Your Data

Digital transformation is reshaping every aspect of our lives—from health to education to economic prosperity, and data is at the heart of it. At Splunk, we are bringing data to everything, enabling organizations worldwide to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on their data across IT, Security, and DevOps use cases. Through this digitization, we see customers accelerate their journey to the cloud for increased agility, reduced costs, and faster time-to-market.

Unlock the Value in Google Cloud with Splunk Observability Solutions

We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to bring real-time observability into Google Cloud Services and modern applications for our joint customers. Cloud has become essential to modernizing IT environments and enabling the digital initiatives of organizations large and small. Organizations undertake IT modernization – including cloud adoption – to accelerate innovation and increase operational efficiency while optimizing IT spend.

5 Benefits of Cloud-Based Log Aggregation Tools

In the modern digital ecosystem, every user activity, system error, application transaction, and network packet movement can be tracked using logs. This level of visibility into systems, networks, and applications is useful for troubleshooting bottlenecks, analyzing past trends, and predicting future events. However, monitoring various cloud-based and on-premises resources becomes complex in the absence of proper log aggregation tools.

Working with Solr Plugins System

Apache Solr was always ready to be extended. What was only needed is a binary with the code and the modification of the Solr configuration file, the solrconfig.xml and we were ready. It was even simpler with the Solr APIs that allowed us to create various configuration elements – for example, request handlers. What’s more, the default Solr distribution came with a few plugins already – for example, the Data Import Handler or Learning to Rank.

Log management: The key to centralized log aggregation and easy troubleshooting

A large number of security breaches are impacting industry verticals, including banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), telecom, and hospitality, so there's a growing need for organizations to fortify their infrastructure against these threats. For example, by the time T-Mobile identified the intrusion and unauthorized access to its sensitive data in 2019, both its customer and employee details were already stolen by hackers.