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Dynatrace has established itself as a prominent player in the field of application performance management, but given that Dynatrace is an expensive solution aimed at large enterprises, exploring your options is essential. This comprehensive article presents a handpicked selection of the top 10 Dynatrace alternatives, each offering distinct advantages and capabilities.

The newly released Cribl Search 4.2 brings enhancements that ease data management in today’s complex, cloud-centric environments. This update provides comprehensive compatibility with all major cloud providers – Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage. It also ushers in native support for Amazon Security Lake. In this blog post, we’ll examine how new dataset providers enhance the value that Cribl Search delivers, out of the box.

Logging and program output are woven into the entire Linux system fabric. In Linux land, logs serve as a vital source of information about security incidents, application activities, and system events. Effectively managing your logs is crucial for troubleshooting and ensuring compliance. This article explores the importance of logging and the main types of logs before covering some helpful command line tools and other tips to help you manage Linux logs.

You can now create globally scoped alerting policies based on PromQL queries alongside yourtheir Cloud Monitoring metrics and dashboards.

The dynamic digital landscape brings risk and uncertainty for businesses in all industries. Cyber criminals use the advantages of time, money, and significant advances in technology to develop new tactics and techniques that help them evade overlooked vulnerabilities. Critical signals — like failures, errors, or outages — go unnoticed, leading to downtime and costing organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Christophe is a self-taught engineer from France who specializes in site reliability engineering. He spends most of his time building systems with open-source technologies. In his free time, Christophe enjoys traveling and discovering new cultures, but he would also settle for a good book by the pool with a lemon sorbet.

If you’re a systems engineer, SRE, or just someone with a love for tech buzzwords, you’ve likely heard about “data lakes”. Before we dive deep into this concept, let’s debunk the illusion: there aren’t any floaties or actual lakes involved! Instead, imagine a vast reservoir where you store loads and loads of raw data in its natural format. Now, pair this with the idea of observability and telemetry pipelines, and we have ourselves an engaging topic.