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Maximize IT efficiency leveraging alert management with Elastic AI Assistant for Observability

Manage and correlate signals and alerts in Elastic Observability As organizations embrace increasingly complex and interconnected IT systems, the sheer volume of alerts generated by diverse monitoring tools has given rise to a critical challenge — how do we efficiently sift through the noise to identify and respond to the most crucial issues? Event management and correlation are two indispensable pillars in the realm of IT service management.

Mastering Log Retention Policy: A Guide to Securing Your Data

The strategic implementation of a security log retention policy is critical for safeguarding digital assets and key company data. This practice is foundational for detecting and analyzing security threats in real-time and conducting thorough post-event investigations. Integrating the nuances of log analytics system costs, which escalate with data volume due to the infrastructure needed for storage and processing, highlights a critical aspect of security log retention.

Grafana Cloud updates: cool visualizations, log monitoring made easier, simplified alert routing

We are consistently releasing helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest upgrades for Grafana Cloud this month. If you’re not a Grafana Cloud user, what are we waiting for?

Receive Cribl Notifications on a Distribution List or Group Email Alias

IT and security teams have several products they use and in turn, have many admins. Some have wide privileges, while others have focused responsibilities for the various tools and touch points in an IT and security data path. Not all admins are members of all tools. But they are all typically part of a larger group bound by an email alias (aka a distribution list).

Searchception! Iterative Search Through Prior Search Results

An analyst’s process often involves searching through a given set of data many times, refining the question and analytics performed each time. Cribl Search was originally designed to be stateless – executing each search from the original dataset provider(s) with every execution. However, a new feature has been introduced to allow searching into previous cached results, accelerating the analyst process for certain types of iterative search development.

Caught in 4K! New Splunk Features Help Find Problems Faster With Full Visibility of Your Tech Stack

As environments have become more complex and digital user expectations are at an all-time high, organizations are under more pressure than ever to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. At Splunk, we’ve been hard at work building features that help ITOps and engineering teams thrive amid digital disruptions and build resilient systems.

Graylog Appoints Ross Brewer as Vice President and Managing Director EMEA to Support its Strong International Growth

Graylog announces Ross Brewer's appointment as Vice President and Managing Director in EMEA, based in the company's London office. This strategic executive appointment will help the Hamburg-born company build upon its strong momentum across the EMEA region.

The Top 10 Web Application Monitoring Tools

Wherever end-user success is critical to a business, your website’s functionality needs diligent testing. Therefore web application monitoring is required for many organizations. Conducting web application monitoring can also offer a whole host of additional advantages to organizations. For example, tracking user interactions and behaviors within the web application aids your organization in understanding how users engage with your application.

How LM Envision removes the logs blindfold

Rules are excellent when you know precisely what you want to match, typically based on experience. Yet rules only let you observe what you have learned to look for. This is where artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) contribute significantly to observability – detecting errors and early warning signs that were previously unobservable. LM Envision supports metric and log anomaly detection. This blog discusses how LM Envision Log Anomalies uncovers previously unknown anomalies.