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Observability Shifts Right

Observability first emerged as a focal point of interest in the DevOps community in the 2017 time frame. Aware that business was demanding highly adaptable digital environments, DevOps professionals realised that high adaptability required a new approach to IT architecture. Whereas historically, digital stacks were monolithic or, at best, coarsely grained, the new stacks would have to be highly modular, dynamic, ephemeral at the component level, and spread over multiple cloud-based services.

How to Quickly Find What's Broken in Your Complex, Cloud Environment

With the rapid adoption of cloud, distributed systems and microservices are standard, resulting in increasingly complex environments. Once straightforward troubleshooting workflows have become chaotic, frustrating, and time-consuming. When something breaks, multiple teams are called to the table to prove they’re “not it”; each with their singular view of the problem.

Introducing Three Powerful Commands in Cribl Search: .show objects, .show queries, and .cancel

Empty spaces, what are we searching for? Abandon queries, but do you know the score? On and on, Does anybody know what we are looking for? … Inspired by “The Show Must Go On”, Queen. Since we launched Cribl Search back in late 2022, we’ve been hard at work on adding features and functionality that continue to empower data engineers to do more with their data without needing to collect it first.

Officially Worldwide: Cribl.Cloud and Cribl Search are now available in EMEA!

At Cribl, we give the people what they want. And what they want is to keep their data close to their sources and destinations. The less data has to travel, the better — lower latency and fewer security risks. This commitment to data locality is even more pronounced among our valued customers in the EMEA region, who are enthusiastically embracing cloud-first strategies.

Tackling Staffing, Funding, and Data Challenges Head-On with TAQA

Join Ed Bailey and TAQA Group's Andrew Ochse as they discuss the diverse services that TAQA offers, look at the challenges with scaling and staffing, and explore in great detail the solutions to classic problems such as insufficient funding, poor data quality, and slow connections linking global sites to their Security Operations Center (SOC).

Setting up better logging in Azure Functions

We have been using Azure Functions for years. Being able to easily deploy and run code on both Azure App Services and real serverless has been a killer feature for all of our asynchronous jobs and services. Unfortunately, the logging approach provided as part of the default template is not ideal. In this post, I'll introduce you to the first steps we take in all of our existing and new function apps to improve logging. A quick note about the Azure Functions runtime.

Why public sector needs AI-powered observability: Cost savings, ROI, and analyst efficiency

Elastic Observability customers saw 243% ROI and $1.2 million in savings over 3 years For government and education organizations around the world, facilitating an efficient, reliable customer experience is essential when providing critical services and building trust with stakeholders. As technology infrastructure expands and the IT landscape becomes a complex mix of private cloud, public cloud, and air-gapped environments, the ability to see across all systems and data is challenging yet critical.

Elasticsearch and LangChain collaborate on production-ready RAG templates

For the past few months, we’ve been working closely with the LangChain team as they made progress on launching LangServe and LangChain Templates! LangChain Templates is a set of reference architectures to build production-ready generative AI applications. You can read more about the launch here.

Elastic Observability ES|QL Demo

Elevate Your Data Game with Elastic Observability and ES|QL! Discover the future of data querying with Elastic’s groundbreaking new feature: ES|QL! In this video you'll deep dive into how ES|QL revolutionizes the way you interact with complex, distributed data, ensuring seamless and efficient data analysis. Who Is This For? Whether you are a data analyst eager to optimize your query writing skills, or a business leader looking to democratize data insights across your organization, this video is tailor-made for you!