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Ubuntu Cron Logs: A Complete Guide for Engineers

May 12, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Troubleshooting failed cron jobs without proper logging can be frustrating. Ubuntu cron logs record the execution of scheduled tasks, helping you identify what's working and what isn't. This guide covers what engineers need to know about Ubuntu cron logs – from finding them to analyzing their contents and setting up effective monitoring solutions.
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splunk

Business Process Automation, Explained

May 12, 2025 By Shanika Wickramasinghe In Splunk
Business process automation no longer sits on the sidelines. What was once an emerging technology is now the engine behind modern business operations. In fact, around 60% of companies already use automation tools in their workflows, according to Duke University. This is not just companies — developers are also contributing to this shift by adopting low-code, no-code, and digital process automation platforms. These new tools remove barriers that once slowed innovation.
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coralogix

Building a Culture of Observability Through Ownership

May 12, 2025 By Martin McLarnon In Coralogix
There’s a problem in engineering culture that we don’t talk about enough: observability is an afterthought. It’s treated as tooling, not thinking. As a checkbox, not a habit. And that mindset gap creates real consequences: longer outages, frustrated teams and massive business costs. Atlassian’s Incident Management for High-Velocity Teams overview cites a 2014 study by Gartner, that the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute.
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Splunk Observability Cloud's AI Assistant in Action | Practical Examples | Part 2

May 12, 2025 By Splunk In Splunk
In this video, we'll explore practical ways to utilize the AI Assistant in Splunk Observability Cloud. Through real-world scenarios, learn how the AI Assistant can help you interpret metrics, contextualize data, onboard new team members to your organization, and automate tasks via the Splunk Observability Cloud API. AI Assistant in Splunk Observability Cloud enhances observability by providing actionable insights and streamlining workflows.
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metricfire

From Logs to Metrics Part 2: Building an Open-Source Logs-to-Graphite Pipeline

May 9, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Monitoring doesn't always need to be complex. In this guide, we'll show you how to transform some raw logs into usable metrics using a lightweight, open-source setup. We'll also use the Telegraf agent to convert logs into Graphite metrics that you can easily visualize and alert on. This is ideal for system admins, DevOps beginners, or anyone interested in building more innovative monitoring pipelines from scratch.
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elastic

How to benchmark Elasticsearch performance with ingest pipelines and your own logs

May 9, 2025 By Philipp Kahr In Elastic
When setting up an Elasticsearch cluster, one of the most common use cases is to ingest and search through logs. This blog post focuses on getting a benchmark that will tell you how well your cluster will handle your workload. It allows you to create a reproducible environment for testing things out. Do you want to change the mapping of something, drop some fields, alter the ingest pipeline?
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metricfire

The Best Open-Source Dashboard Tools for 2025: Expert Guide to Choosing the Right One

May 8, 2025 By Vipul Gupta In MetricFire
Table of Contents In today’s digital operations, dashboards aren’t just nice-to-haves—they’re essential. Teams across engineering, product, operations, and business intelligence rely on real-time data visibility to monitor systems, analyze trends, and catch anomalies before they escalate. For many organizations, open-source dashboard tools offer the best combination of flexibility, transparency, and cost-efficiency.
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Meta-monitoring Loki (Loki Community Call May 2025)

May 8, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
In this Loki Community Call, we talk about the need for meta-monitoring Loki: why Loki needs to be monitored, what to watch out for, and how to do it. We talk about different ways to get information from Loki that allow you to make it reliable, consistent, and performant, including a Helm chart to deploy a meta-monitoring stack on Kubernetes. We discuss the Loki mixin for Grafana and how to use it to visualize data about Loki. On the call are Jay Clifford, Nicole van der Hoeven, and Dylan Guedes from Grafana Labs.
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