Logging and program output are woven into the entire Linux system fabric. In Linux land, logs serve as a vital source of information about security incidents, application activities, and system events. Effectively managing your logs is crucial for troubleshooting and ensuring compliance. This article explores the importance of logging and the main types of logs before covering some helpful command line tools and other tips to help you manage Linux logs.

Data retention policy will become a major focus for CIOs in 2021. Here’s why: First, enterprise organizations are producing larger volumes of data than ever before and utilizing enterprise data across a wider range of business processes and applications. To maximize its value, this data must be managed effectively throughout its entire life cycle - from collection and storage, through to usage, archiving, and eventually deletion.

Mobile-friendly websites are a must. We are all using mobile devices more and more to access information and perform all kinds of work and tasks – shopping, banking, communication, dating, etc. Needless to say, if you operate a website, you more likely want to ensure people accessing it using mobile devices – tablets, smartphones, etc. – have a great experience.

Moore’s law states that the transistor count on a microchip doubles every two years. This observation was first made in 1965 by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. While it may sound hyperbolic at first, his estimation has held true for over 50 years. Let’s talk about how, and why, it matters.

One of the most exciting things about bringing products to market at Cribl is seeing customers continually find new ways to leverage them to help solve their data challenges. I recently spoke to a customer who described Cribl as the foundation of their data management strategy and a key part of their post-acquisition data engineering process. Let’s take a deeper look into how Cribl can help.

We’ve dropped pricing for samples ingested into Managed Service for Prometheus by 60%, and improved our metrics management interface.

As we navigate our fast-paced digital era, organizations across various industries are in constant pursuit of strategies for efficient monitoring, performance tuning, and continuous improvement of their services. Elastic® and Kyndryl have come together to offer a solution for Mainframe Observability, engineered with an emphasis on organizations that are heavily reliant on mainframes, including the financial services industry (FSI), healthcare, retail, and manufacturing sectors.

One of our core values at Cribl is Customers First, Always. These aren’t just buzzwords we use to sound customer friendly; it’s ingrained in our daily communication and workload. Without our customers, we wouldn’t exist. One of the ways we’ve upheld this value is to seek out strategic partnerships with other companies aligned with our customers’ needs – both present and future.

While Coralogix Remote Query is a solution to constant reingestion of logs, there are few other options today that also offer customers the ability to query unindexed log data. For instance, DataDog has recently introduced Flex Logs to enable their customers to store logs in a lower cost storage tier. Let’s go over the differences between Coralogix Remote Query vs Flex Logs and see how DataDog compares. Get a strong full-stack observability platform to scale your organization now.

Adaptive thresholding in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) is a useful capability for key performance indicator (KPI) monitoring. It allows thresholds to be updated at a regular interval depending on how the values of KPIs change over time. Adaptive thresholding has many parameters through which users can customize its behavior, including time policies, algorithms and thresholds.