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

3 Keys to Maximizing SIEM Value

SIEM has been a crucial component of security systems for nearly two decades. While there’s ample information on operating SIEM solutions out there, guidance on evaluating and managing them effectively is lacking. We’ve noticed many SIEM vendors are taking advantage of this dearth of knowledge and not providing customers with needed value for what they’re buying.

Understanding Kubernetes Logs and Using Them to Improve Cluster Resilience

In the complex world of Kubernetes, logs serve as the backbone of effective monitoring, debugging, and issue diagnosis. They provide indispensable insights into the behavior and performance of individual components within a Kubernetes cluster, such as containers, nodes, and services.

Sematext Update Review Episode 2 | New Product Features

The first half of 2023 has been a fantastic year thus far. We are super excited to share with you some of the newest updates and improvements we have made to your favorite monitoring tools inside of the sematext cloud. Whether you work in DevOps for a multi-billion dollar company or if you are a freelancer who owns an online business, Sematext has the perfect monitoring solution for you. Today, we will discuss our new OpenSearch integration, Changes we have made to Sematext Synthetics for HTTP monitoring, and UI changes we have made to the events tool.

Modernize Your SIEM Architecture

Join Ed Bailey from Cribl and John Alves from CyberOne Security as they discuss the struggles faced by many SIEM teams in managing their systems to control costs and extract optimal value from the platform. The prevalence of bad data or an overwhelming amount of data leads to various issues with detections and drives costs higher and higher. It is extremely common to witness a year-over-year cost increase of up to 35%, which is clearly unsustainable.

Unraveling the Log Data Explosion: New Market Research Shows Trends and Challenges

Log data is the most fundamental information unit in our XOps world. It provides a record of every important event. Modern log analysis tools help centralize these logs across all our systems. Log analytics helps engineers understand system behavior, enabling them to search for and pinpoint problems. These tools offer dashboarding capabilities and high-level metrics for system health. Additionally, they can alert us when problems arise.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Standardizing Telemetry with the BindPlane Observability Pipeline

Adding additional attributes to your telemetry not only provides valuable context to your observability pipeline but also enhances the flexibility and precision of your data operations. Consider, for example, the need to route data from specific geographical locations, like the EU, to a designated destination. With a ‘Location’ attribute added to your logs, you can seamlessly achieve this.

Head in the Clouds (ft. Jo Peterson): Experts Dish on Cloud Strategy

Cloud is still a buzzword - but is it getting the attention you want it to get? Yeah, we thought so. The secret is layering in revenue-generating words around cloud to grab the attention it so rightfully deserves. Hear more from Splunker Tom Stoner and Clarify360's Jo Peterson.

Rollouts in BindPlane OP

Learn how easy it is to edit and roll out changes to your configurations, deploying in batches, while also being able to look back at the entire version history. About ObservIQ: observIQ is developing the unified telemetry platform: a fast, powerful and intuitive next-generation platform built for the modern observability team. Rooted in OpenTelemetry, our platform is designed to help teams reduce, simplify, and standardize their observability data.

10 AWS Data Lake Best Practices

A data lake is the perfect solution for storing and accessing your data, and enabling data analytics at scale - but do you know how to make the most of your AWS data lake? In this week’s blog post, we’re offering 10 data lake best practices that can help you optimize your AWS S3 data lake set-up and data management workflows, decrease time-to-insights, reduce costs, and get the most value from your AWS data lake deployment.