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Salt Lake City, Utah, 13th November 2024 – Today we’re delighted to announce the GA release of our innovative logging solution - VictoriaLogs. Our easy-to-use, open source log management solution combines a powerful query language for easy log searching with minimal resource requirements. It’s perfect for managing and analyzing large volumes of log data, especially in containerised environments such as Kubernetes.

Google recently released its 2024 Cloud DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) report, bringing together a decade’s worth of trends, insights, and best practices on what drives high performance in software delivery across industries of all sizes. This year’s findings take a closer look at how DevOps teams can achieve greater resilience and efficiency by adopting AI, improving team well-being, and building powerful internal platforms. ‍

‍ Let’s talk about something we’ve all experienced: a customer reports that their checkout process is “sometimes slow,” – or maybe you noticed an unexpected spike in response times. So, you dive into the logs, grep through thousands of lines, and try to match timestamps with your APM traces. Sound familiar? At Scout, we’ve seen countless engineering teams struggle with this disconnect between their logging and APM tools.

Elastic Observability 8.16 announces several key capabilities: Elastic Observability 8.16 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release. You can also download the Elastic Stack and our cloud orchestration products — Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes — for a self-managed experience. What else is new in Elastic 8.16?

A deeper look into our new, simplified navigation menu for Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments In recent years, the Elastic platform steadily expanded its features and capabilities to address complex and evolving customer needs. As a result, the left navigation became a vast array of over 100 menu items. While our customers deeply value this extensible toolset on a unified platform, daily users need a simple interface for quick access to commonly used tools.

Understanding Splunk pricing is crucial for organizations evaluating SIEM solutions. This guide examines licensing models, actual costs, and essential pricing factors to help you make an informed investment decision for your security and monitoring needs.

When discussing what makes a product different, what makes it unique, we are led down the path of feature comparison. It is a natural thing to break down a product into its component parts to ease the process of weighing and measuring each layer. Does the authentication layer support SAML? Can platform components be defined in code? Beneath each of these features, however, is a foundational strata. A golden thread that enables and constrains each and every piece.

At Cribl, we’ve been deeply investing in the Microsft Azure security space. Last year, we introduced a native integration with Microsoft Sentinel, enabling us to write data seamlessly to native and custom tables. As highlighted earlier, working with Microsoft Sentinel and Log Analytics involves interacting with tables with predefined column names and data types.

Learn how to implement proper logging in Flask, from development to production, and avoid the pitfalls of scattered print statements.