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The telemetry time bomb - and what to do about it

Telemetry data is growing at an average of 29% a year — doubling costs every 18 months. That’s putting pressure on ITOps budgets, observability platforms, SecOps teams, and SIEM deployments alike. In this post, we’ll explore how unchecked data volumes, siloed tools, and aging architectures are creating a telemetry cost crunch that limits visibility, slows both troubleshooting and threat detection, and impacts business outcomes.

How GenAI Is Empowering Elastic Workforce

With over 10,000 questions answered and a 99% satisfaction rate in just 90 days, ElasticGPT, our internal generative AI assistant built on Elastic’s Search AI Platform, is transforming how our teams find information, make decisions, and complete day-to-day tasks. Matt Minetola, CIO, explains how ElasticGPT helps employees access company knowledge faster using natural language queries. Learn how we’re using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and a secure, scalable architecture to deliver trusted, real-time AI experiences across the organization.

13 Best Windows Monitoring Tools in 2025

It’s 2 AM, and your phone buzzes with an urgent alert—your primary server application is down, and users are flooding the support channels with complaints. As you dive into the logs, the cause is elusive, buried somewhere in the sea of system events. Is it a rogue service eating up memory? A failing disk? Or a network bottleneck? Without powerful Windows monitoring tools, you’re left troubleshooting in the dark.

Best Web Transaction Monitoring Tools in 2025

Websites are no longer static pages. They’re dynamic, transaction-heavy ecosystems where every click, form submission, and login matters. Whether you’re in e-commerce, SaaS, or finance, transaction failures can lead to revenue loss, frustrated customers, and even damage to your brand. That’s where web transaction monitoring tools come in — a critical component to make sure every interaction goes smoothly.

CriblCon sneak peek with AlphaSoc

The countdown to is on and we’re giving you an exclusive first look at the expert insights, innovative solutions, and success stories you’ll see on the big stage. Join us as we chat with Chris McNab, Founder of AlphaSOC, a security startup that processes network telemetry to uncover infected hosts, emerging threats, and targeted attacks.

Audit log streaming for real-time security visibility in your CI/CD pipeline

Security and compliance teams face a critical challenge: by the time they discover suspicious activity in their development pipeline, it’s often too late to prevent damage. Manual audit log requests create bottlenecks that delay incident response, and gaps in visibility leave organizations vulnerable to insider threats and compliance violations. If your team struggles with any of these issues, you need a systematic approach to real-time audit monitoring.

Soft navigations: The future of seamless browsing

In the ever-evolving world of web standards, a new experimental feature is quietly reshaping how browsers perceive navigation: Soft Navigations. While still in the early stages, this concept has the potential to redefine user experience metrics, improve performance monitoring, and better align browsers with the behavior of modern web applications. Let’s dive into what soft navigations are, why they’re important, and how you can start exploring them today.

Securing the Future: Responsible AI on AWS with Sumo Logic -- Customer Brown Bag -- Sept 25th, 2025

This session with Moumita Saha, Sr. Security Partner SA – WW Consulting Partners, AWS, and Adam White, Sr. Dir. Technical Marketer at Sumo Logic explores how AWS and Sumo Logic partner to deliver practical strategies for securing generative AI applications, ensuring they remain safe, compliant, and trustworthy.

How to Push Prometheus Metrics to Splunk Observability Cloud with the OpenTelemetry Collector

In this video, you’ll learn how to scrape Prometheus endpoints with the OpenTelemetry Collector’s Prometheus receiver and send metrics to Splunk Observability Cloud. We’ll walk through configuring three common data sources (a Python Flask app, node_exporter for host metrics, and the NGINX Prometheus exporter), show how to enrich metrics with resource attributes, and build simple charts in Splunk Observability Cloud. You’ll see how centralized scraping and consistent tagging make it easy to manage and visualize Prometheus metrics in Splunk Observability Cloud.