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The Evils of Data Debt

In this livestream, Jackie McGuire and I discuss the harmful effects of data debt on observability and security teams. Data debt is a pervasive problem that increases costs and produces poor results across observability and security. Simply put — garbage in equals garbage out. We delve into what data debt is and some long term solutions. You can also subscribe to Cribl’s podcast to listen on the go!

Introduction to Collecting Traces with OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry (also abbreviated as OTEL) is an increasingly popular open-source observability platform under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which is currently the most active project in the CNCF after Kubernetes. It was created to establish a unified and vendor-agnostic way for instrumenting, collecting, and exporting telemetry data for your system and application across traces, logs, and metrics.

The 2023 Observability Market Map - Key Trends, Players, and Directions

Cribl has a unique position right in the middle of the observability market, giving us a distinct view of all things security, APM, and log analysis. Observability as a concept has exploded into specialized areas over the past two years, and making sense of the players and market forces, particularly in a difficult macro environment, can be tricky. Let’s break it down.

Business Observability: Everything Fintech Companies Want to Know

Fintech companies operate in a complex technological and regulatory environment. They rely heavily on cloud-native technologies and microservices architectures to handle financial transactions and data, often at a massive scale. To maximize application reliability, fintech companies need full visibility into their software systems and applications. An agile monitoring solution like observability is crucial to improving performance and user experience.

Stile Education's Best-of-Breed Observability Strategy

"One of the best things we’ve gotten out of ChaosSearch is the ability to keep all of our data in S3. It’s cheap and easy to keep all of our data available and indexed. We can search through it at any time to dig deeper into problems that crop up." Learn more about how the Stile's team can now retain log data indefinitely, versus saving only a week or two of data in Elasticsearch. That change has increased the team’s capacity to use log data to solve business problems, and unlocked new opportunities to discover deeper product insights.

Getting Your Logs In Order: A Guide to Normalizing with Graylog

If you work with large amounts of log data, you know how challenging it can be to analyze that data and extract meaningful insights. One way to make log analysis easier is to normalize your log messages. In this post, we’ll explain why log message normalization is important and how to do it in Graylog.