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No Startup Is a Startup Forever - How to Navigate Scaling Your Company

In the last five years, Cribl has gone from 3 employees to more than 400 employees — it’s been an incredible, crazy, difficult, tiring, fucking awesome ride. It’s also been an emotional roller coaster with all the ups and downs, but despite all the challenges, things have been trending upwards.

Executive Lookout: Observing Observability

Splunk Observability is incredibly good at details! Many of us use it as a metaphorical microscope through which we observe our software. But how do you observe the long-term trends and usage of that microscope? There are numerous organization-level metrics provided in Splunk Observability that can be used to chart organization-level concerns. These can be leveraged in various ways to understand things like uptake, billing and just how much value Observability is providing.

Serverless Monitoring In The Cloud With The observIQ Distro for OpenTelemetry

In this part 1 of a blog series on serverless monitoring, we will learn how to run the observIQ Distro For OpenTelemetry Collector, referred to as “oiq-otel-collector”, in Google Cloud Run. There are many reasons that someone may want to run monitoring in a serverless state. In our example, we will be monitoring MongoDB Atlas, a cloud hosted version of MongoDB.

The Current State of Workload Portability

Have you considered cloud portability, i.e., the ability to easily move workloads between on-premises systems and across multiple cloud service providers (CSPs)? The idea is that workloads should run in the environment that delivers the most value for your organization, but as that “optimal” environment can change over time, you need to be able to move your workloads accordingly.

The Papertrail SaaS Add-On in DigitalOcean Centralizes Everything You Need for Log Management

The SolarWinds® Papertrail™ software as a service (SaaS) Add-On in the DigitalOcean Marketplace is one of the most exciting developments to come out of the DigitalOcean and Papertrail partnership. With the Add-On, developers can seamlessly add the simple yet powerful log management Papertrail is known for to their DigitalOcean infrastructure In an earlier post, we reviewed how the Add-On helps teams simplify their log management tasks.