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The latest News and Information on Log Management, Log Analytics and related technologies.

Getting Started with GROK Patterns

If you’re new to logging, you might be tempted to collect all the data you possibly can. More information means more insights; at least, those NBC “the more you know” public services announcements told you it would help. Unfortunately, you can create new problems if you do too much logging. To streamline your log collection, you can apply some filtering of messages directly from the log source. However, to parse the data, you may need to use a Grok pattern.

Splunk Edge Processor Enhancements Offer Greater Data Access and Improve Data Management

On the heels of an exciting GA in March and the April announcement of its regional expansion, we are excited to share the latest updates to Splunk Edge Processor that will make it even easier for customers to have more flexibility and control over just the data you want, nothing more nothing less.

Four reasons to try our next-gen dashboards

When you need to troubleshoot faster, rich out-of-the-box content lets you easily monitor the tools in your technology stack. Dashboards are key to our customers’ success — offering you deep insights at a glance and the ability to drill into the details most important to you. A couple years ago, we debuted a new style of dashboards, built on top of a scalable, flexible and extensible charting system.

OpenTelemetry demo app with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo (Grafana Office Hours #06)

DevOps Engineer Blueswen Li 劉義瑋 joins us to walk us through some OpenTelemetry demo apps he created, instrumented with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, and Tempo. He is joined by two of our Developer Advocates, Paul Balogh and Nicole van der Hoeven.

10 Best Pingdom Alternatives [2023 Comparison]

In today’s digital landscape, website performance is paramount. To ensure seamless functionality and reliability, businesses rely on Synthetic Monitoring tools. While Pingdom has been a popular choice, it’s essential to explore alternative solutions. In this article, we’ll dive into the top alternatives to Pingdom in 2023, examining their advanced features, functionalities, and integration capabilities.

How BAI Communications Scaled Log Analytics to Optimize Network Performance

The team wanted something simple that they could use with existing, low-cost storage options, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. Instead of implementing a massive volume of solid-state drives (SSDs) to write logs, the team needed a simpler and more cost-effective solution that would keep cloud infrastructure in place for availability and geo-diversity across markets. Today, ChaosSearch helps the team store and query long-term data at 0.1% of the cost of other leading technology stacks.

Creating an environment for distributed teams to thrive and innovate

Hear from our group of panelists on how they enable their teams to thrive in a distributed environment. It may seem difficult to carve out your career path, be innovative and inclusive all while being remote. But these women will share their leadership styles and insights on how they lead and support their high performance teams.