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

Using LogDNA and your Logs to QA and Stage

An organization’s logging platform is a critical infrastructure component. Its purpose is to provide comprehensive and relevant information about the system, to specific parties, while it's running or when it's being built. For example, developers would require detailed and accurate logs when building and implementing services locally or in remote environments so that they can test new features.

Using LogDNA to Debug in Development

Developing scalable and reliable applications is a serious business. It requires precision, accuracy, effective teamwork, and convenient tooling. During the software construction phase, developers employ numerous techniques to debug and resolve issues within their programs. One of these techniques is to leverage monitoring and logging libraries to discover how the application behaves in edge cases or under load.

Use Logz.io to Instrument Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry & Helm

Logz.io is always looking to improve the user experience when it comes to Kubernetes and monitoring your K8s architecture. We’ve taken another step with that, adding OpenTelemetry instrumentation with Helm charts. We have made Helm charts available before, previously with editions suitable for Metricbeat and for Prometheus operators.

Analyze your logs easier with log field analytics

We know that developers or operators troubleshooting applications and systems have a lot of data to sort through while getting to the root cause of issues. Often there are fields like error response codes that are critical for finding answers and resolving those issues. Today, we’re proud to announce log field analytics in Cloud Logging, a new way to search, filter and understand the structure of your logs so you can find answers faster and easier than ever before.

How to use Cloud Logging to detect security breaches

If your system's security has been breached, what can you do to stop this attack and not make the situation worse? In this episode of Cloud Security Basics, we show how you can use Cloud Operations Suite to check for security breaches. Watch to learn some best practices when dealing with and handling malicious attacks!

King & Wood Mallesons CISO relies on Elastic to "spot and identify" security threats

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) is among the world’s most innovative law firms and is represented by 2,400 lawyers in 28 locations across the globe. The international law firm, based in Australia, helps clients flourish in Asian markets by helping them understand and navigate local challenges and by delivering solutions that provide clients with a competitive advantage.

Using Audit Logs For Security and Compliance

Developers, network specialists, system administrators, and even IT helpdesk use audit log in their jobs. It’s an integral part of maintaining security and compliance. It can even be used as a diagnostic tool for error resolution. With cybersecurity threats looming more than ever before, audit logs gained even more importance in monitoring. Before we get to how you can use audit logs for security and compliance, let’s take a moment to really understand what they are and what they can do.

How to deploy and manage Elastic on Microsoft Azure

We recently announced that users can find, deploy, and manage Elasticsearch from within the Azure portal. This new integration provides a simplified onboarding experience, all with the Azure portal and tooling you already know, so you can easily deploy Elastic without having to sign up for an external service or configure billing information.

Elastic 7.13.0 released: Search and store more data on Elastic

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Elastic 7.13. This release brings a broad set of new capabilities to our Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are built into the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch and Kibana. This release enables customers to search petabytes of data in minutes cost-effectively by leveraging searchable snapshots and the new frozen tier.