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How to monitor Amazon Kinesis

We live in a world that becomes more connected with each passing day. Public cloud hosts like Amazon Web Services (AWS) provide platforms with a wide array of capabilities that quickly scale based on demand. As a result, we’ve seen an explosion of new applications and services that continue to change our daily lives for the better. Data is a critical component of all of these systems. They can ingest vast amounts of data, process or transform it, and then pass it on.

A look at how the U.S. Department of Defense deploys the Grafana stack

In September 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Iron Bank formally authorized Grafana, Grafana Enterprise, and Grafana Loki, allowing the 100,000 employees and contractors who work on DoD software, both classified and unclassified, to easily select and immediately deploy Grafana Labs software without additional approvals and security certifications. In our first-ever government session at ObservabilityCon 2021, former U.S.

Integrating Log Analytics in Serverless360

Recently we launched features to provide support for Log Analytics in Serverless360. Log Analytics workspaces are used by a lot of different features within the Azure Monitor stack and by providing the ability to link a Log Analytics Workspace to a Business Application in Serverless360 we see that it provides a way you can allow a support user the ability to view and run queries against your log data without needing to be an Azure Expert.

Optimized Security Traffic Mirroring Examples - Part 1

You have to capture everything to investigate security issues thoroughly, right? More often than not, data that at one time was labeled irrelevant and thrown away is found to be the missing piece of the puzzle when investigating a malicious attacker or the source of an information leak. So, you need to capture every network packet.

What Challenges Does a "Single Pane of Glass" Bring to Enterprise Data?

If I had a penny for each time someone asked for a single pane of glass view across my 20 years in the application monitoring (now observability) space, and I would be retired instead of writing this blog. But, on the other hand, I’d be in big trouble if I paid out each time we failed we finished that ask.

How to Get Started with ChaosSearch

ChaosSearch activates your cloud object storage for analytics at scale via multi-API access, with no data movement, no sharding nor re-indexing, and no data retention trade-offs. To help engineers and IT leaders experience the power of ChaosSearch for themselves, we’ve made it easier than ever to get started with our free trial experience.

10 tips for log shipping using Fluentd

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies data collection and consumption. It has different types of plugins that retrieve logs from external sources, parse them, and send them to log management tools like Site24x7 AppLogs. tail, forward, udp, tcp, http, syslog, exec, and windows_eventlog are common input plugins.

Data Lakes and Beyond: Complementing the New AWS CloudTrail Lake Service With LogStream

AWS announced CloudTrail Lake on January 5th, 2022, as a fully-managed solution for storing and querying CloudTrail logs. At first glance, it is straightforward to set up, can be enabled for all your organization’s accounts with a radio button, and keeps data for up to seven years by default! It’s a huge time saver and headache eliminator for many, as getting CloudTrail from all organization accounts to a SIEM can be tedious and time-consuming. But all this comes with a cost.

Living Your Stream: Build Your Observability Data Pipeline with Cribl LogStream Free

Our mission at Cribl is to unlock the value of all your observability and telemetry data, regardless of source or destination. We aim to give you choice and control over your data—because we know data has different value to different stakeholders at different times in the data lifecycle. Users are just scratching the surface in terms of the ways they are finding value from Cribl LogStream.