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Reducing Risk by Prioritizing Use Case Development

The session is really about customers spending their resources wisely, prioritizing use case development based on blind spots, weaknesses, or maybe even just plain audit findings. We have all been guilty in the past of spending a lot of time building clever use cases just for them to never fire or not work out the way we’d hoped; this talk is aimed at highlighting this issue and teach users to focus their resources and build a strategy for development like any other process they would internally.

About us - Sumo Logic

A log on its own is pretty simple, but they're rarely alone. Your digital applications, infrastructure and AI keep adding another, and another, and another… For some teams, this exponential data is overwhelming, causing friction, bottlenecks, and even tuning it all out. But at Sumo Logic, we’re FUELED by the atomic level of logs. The Sumo Logic Log Analytics Platform ingests each and every bit of this structured and unstructured “data exhaust,” transforming it into critical fuel for context-driven insights into your performance, availability, security status, and threats.

Is Your Telemetry Data Strategy Ready for the Next Decade?

What worked for the last 10 years won’t work for the next 10. IT and Security teams face three big challenges with telemetry data: Volume: Telemetry data is growing at a 28% CAGR, while budgets remain flat. Compliance requirements demand retaining massive datasets, straining both storage and costs. Variety: Logs, metrics, traces, configs—telemetry data comes in all shapes and sizes, making it difficult for traditional analytics tools to handle. Your tech needs to manage this complexity seamlessly.

Best Practices for Troubleshooting a Windows Server Upgrade

To upgrade, or not to upgrade. While that may not have been the question that Hamlet asked, it’s one you might be asking. You already made the mistake of asking Reddit, “should I do an in-place upgrade,” and, as expected, people had Big Opinions. A Windows Server Feature Update offers benefits, like performance and analytics. On the other hand, if you have problems, then your attempts can lead to business downtime and service disruption.

Leveraging AWS Private Image Build for a Compliant Cribl Deployment

In today’s data-driven world, ensuring the security and compliance of your data pipelines is paramount. Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge offer powerful telemetry data management and enrichment solutions. However, deploying these tools within your environment often requires careful consideration of security and compliance standards.

The Leading Synthetic Monitoring Tools

For accurate and effective performance testing, synthetic monitoring has become a staple and this is only going to continue in the coming years. This is mainly due to the fact that this process is beneficial and offers numerous advantages to organizations. With synthetic monitoring, your organization can identify performance issues before they affect real users. By continuously simulating user interactions, your team can highlight and rectify performance bottlenecks and infrastructure issues in real time.

Grafana Loki Query Best Practices with LogQL (Loki Community Call December 2024)

In this December's Loki Community Call, Cyril Tovena, Senior Principal Engineer and LogQL guru walks us through a Grafana Loki query tutorial with LogQL, the Log Query Language used for Loki. He talks about the key "Dos and Don'ts" of LogQL, offering practical tips to help you write better queries, boost performance, and sidestep common mistakes. Whether you’re tuning up your current setup or just diving into LogQL, Cyril’s got you covered.

ElasticGPT: Empowering our workforce with generative AI

Like all organizations, Elastic deals with an ever-increasing volume of information and data, making it harder for our teams to keep information up to date and for employees to find answers from relevant resources. As a leading Search AI company, our approach to customer-first starts with customer zero — us. When our employees needed a better way to find the information necessary to do their jobs, we knew we could use our own technology to bring that vision to life.