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Introduction to Ingesting OpenTelemetry Logs with Loki | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana

Have you just discovered Grafana Loki and are planning to use OpenTelemetry as your instrumentation tool of choice? Or looking for an introduction to what OpenTelemetry is? In this Zero to Hero episode, we cover the basics of instrumenting your code with the Otel SDK, the Otel Collector and the new native Otel endpoint of Loki.

Cribl's products help IT and security teams analyze, collect, process, and route data at any scale.

This video showcases how Cribl products work together to power the Data Engine for IT and Security. Watch to see how IT and security teams can transform data management with Cribl. And the best part? No vendor lock-in, ever.

OpsRamp Brings the Power of Observability to the Network

Autonomous IT operations requires 100 percent visibility of hybrid IT environments. With that in mind, OpsRamp, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, today announced a new network observability solution to help enterprise IT organizations, global systems integrators (GSIs) and managed service providers (MSPs) better manage the mission-critical network infrastructure that connects and powers their hybrid cloud systems.

Communicate scheduled maintenance with StatusIQ

Failure to communicate scheduled maintenance often results in unexpected downtime, significantly impacting the user experience by causing frustration and disrupting workflow. This not only leads to user confusion but also burdens IT support teams with a surge of customer queries. Gain deeper insights into effective strategies and best practices for communicating schedule maintenance activities clearly to stakeholders through this blog.

Jaeger vs New Relic - Choosing Your Ideal Tool

If your application is as busy as a highway with multiple lanes, intersections, and exits, imagine trying to track the journey of a single car from start to finish. Sounds tricky, right? Well, that's what happens when you're dealing with modern, complex software systems. Enter distributed tracing, your trusty GPS for navigating the intricate web of microservices and dependencies within your applications.

How to use OpenTelemetry resource attributes and Grafana Cloud Application Observability to accelerate root cause analysis

Let’s imagine a scenario: you use OpenTelemetry, and your observability backend runs on several hosts. You collect data on application latency, and notice a recent increase that you want to investigate. But how will you know which host caused the degradation? This is exactly where OpenTelmetry resources come in. In the context of OpenTelemetry, a resource represents the entity producing the telemetry data, such as a container, host, process, service, or operating system.

Website Availability Monitoring

Website availability monitoring is checking your website regularly to make sure it is accessible and working for users at all times. This involves testing your site's uptime, which is the time your website is up and available, as well as its performance, such as loading speed and responsiveness. By monitoring your website from different locations around the world, you can get a view of how your site is performing for users in different regions.