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Have you ever wondered why some once-prominent companies now find themselves less popular, even overshadowed by smaller competitors? A prime example of this shift is Facebook. Although Facebook was the heartthrob of the 2000s, major issues like internet privacy and possible leaking of user records have made users more suspicious. Only 18% of American Facebook users think the platform protects their data and privacy.

While we built Grafana Loki as an open source log aggregation system that is cost effective and easy to operate, let’s face it: sometimes there is no time or bandwidth to mess around with self-managing and self-hosting. Luckily there’s the fully managed Grafana Cloud observability stack for log management. “Grafana Cloud is a no-BS platform. The engineering costs of hosting it ourselves would be much higher," says Jameel Al-Aziz, a software architect at Paradigm.

Circles X uses DORA DevOps best practices to build the first telco-as-a-service in Indonesia, helping partners to launch a digital telco.

In today’s hybrid cloud era, the volume and diversity of log data have exploded, which makes managing them ever so challenging. IT teams need to conquer the gush of logs by providing context whilst having an effective log management strategy. Without a powerful log management solution, it all becomes too cumbersome. And even if you do get your hand around a good log management platform, you’ll find yourself stuck with hefty licensing costs and impractical compliance issues.

Recently, I sat down with Adelaide O’Brien, research vice president at IDC Government Insights, to discuss the current and future state of generative AI in the public sector worldwide. The full conversation is available to view on demand, but I also wanted to highlight some of the takeaways from the discussion.

Nginx metrics and logs monitoring are important to ensure that Nginx is performing as expected and to identify and resolve problems quickly. In this tutorial, you will install OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Nginx metrics and logs and then send the collected data to SigNoz for monitoring and visualization. In this tutorial, we cover: If you want to jump straight into implementation, start with this pre-requisites section.

In Parsing Domains with URL Toolbox, we detailed how you can pass a fully qualified domain name or URL to URL Toolbox and receive a nicely parsed set of fields that includes the query string, top level domain, subdomains, and more. In this article, we are going to do some nerdy analytic arithmetic on those fields.

In the following comparison table, we will provide you with an extensive guide designed to enable a detailed assessment of Cassandra and OpenSearch. This comparison aims to supply an in-depth exploration of multiple aspects of these two database systems, providing you with the insights required to make informed decisions tailored to your specific use case.