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Moving beyond traditional monitoring to embrace full stack observability offers a seemingly endless range of benefits. Beyond unifying logs, metrics, and traces in a single platform, the opportunity to enlist advanced analytics and engage a more predictive approach represents another huge step forward.

SolarWinds® Papertrail™ has supported Heroku almost from the beginning, as an add-on in the Heroku Marketplace and as a compatible standalone log management tool. Heroku’s focus on empowering developers to build and deliver applications by providing an easy-to-use platform as a service fits perfectly with the vision of Papertrail. Both developer-focused technologies can be set up typically in minutes, are easy to use, and offer powerful functions.

November, the season of post-conf, is upon us. Hopefully all you Splunk admins and sc_admins are craving the release of a ton of new.conf21 Splunk features. Well, good news, because Connected Experiences is here to help you get started with everything Splunk Mobile, Augmented Reality, TV and iPad with this one handy guide. Let’s get started!

While it’s cooling down here in California as Fall arrives, we have some really hot and exciting updates from.conf21, including the announcement of Splunk Cloud Developer Edition, the new Splunkbase user experience, detailed guidelines to help you deliver cloud-ready apps for Splunk Cloud Platform, AppInspect updates with new checks, a helpful blog about storing app secrets, updated docs for Modular Inputs and External Lookups, a summary of SDK updates, and more.

Even if an organization has developed a governance team, aligning integration decisions with business needs must be incorporated into the zero trust architecture. The company’s business model drives the applications chosen. The senior leadership team needs someone who can translate technology risks and apply them to business risks. For example, security might be an organization’s differentiator.

Tucker Callaway is the CEO of LogDNA. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software with an emphasis on developer and DevOps tools. Tucker fosters a DevOps culture at LogDNA by tying technical projects to business outcomes, practicing extreme transparency, and empowering every person in the company to contribute.

In today’s cloud environments, a typical observability stack might include an Elasticsearch cluster for logging, a few Prometheus servers for metrics monitoring, and an AppDynamics deployment for APM. You may run something similar – most observability stacks consist of multiple siloed tools dedicated to collecting and analyzing specific types of monitoring data.

Today was a very exciting day for Logz.io, as we held ScaleUP 2021 – our second annual user conference – dedicated to elevating our customers’ success, discussing best practices for modern observability, and unveiling Logz.io’s latest product updates. These product advancements were presented by our Co-Founder and VP of Product Asaf Yigal, and members of the Logz.io software engineering team.

As Logz.io prepares to hold its annual ScaleUP user conference tomorrow, celebrating another amazing year of customer success and continued advancement of our observability platform, we’ve got exciting news to share about our involvement with the OpenSearch project.

Stanza is a robust log agent. GCP users can use Stanza for ingesting large volumes of log data. Before we dive into the configuration steps, here’s a matrix detailing the functional differences between all the common log agents used by GCP users. Stanza was built as a modernized version of FluentD, Fluentbit, and Logstash. GCP users now have the ability to install Stanza to their VMs/ GKE clusters to ingest logs and route them to GCP log explorer.