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The Quixotic Expedition into the Vastness of Edge Logs, Part 1: Analyzing Numerous Cribl Edge Nodes with Cribl Search

Cribl Search is a powerful tool that is designed to enhance your data search efficiency, irrespective of the location of your data. This blog will explore how this tool seamlessly integrates with numerous Cribl Edge Nodes in real time, simplifying the process of discovery and troubleshooting. An integral part of Cribl Search is the “teleport” feature, which enables users to access specific Edge Nodes for in-depth analysis, simply by clicking on a host field.

Reduce MTTR and Address the Talent Gap with Logz.io Alert Recommendations

When our CEO and co-founder Tomer Levy delivered his “Observability is Broken” presentation at last year’s AWS re:Invent, he highlighted numerous challenges faced by today’s organizations as they seek to advance their observability practices. Of the six individual points that he noted, two specifically dealt with the current shortage of available engineering expertise, with another two focused on data overload.

Grafana Labs partners with GitHub to enable secret scanning

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, we are excited to announce we have partnered with GitHub to protect our users on public repositories via GitHub’s secret-scanning feature. Through the partnership, GitHub will notify Grafana Labs when one of the following secret types is exposed in the code of a public repository: GitHub actively monitors public repositories for leaked secrets. When a secret is detected, its hash is stored in Grafana Labs’ Secret Scanning API.

Set Up Tracing for a Node.js Application on AppSignal

Node.js is a very popular JavaScript runtime for the backend. Its usage has grown steadily in the past years. Some notable users of Node.js include Netflix, PayPal, Uber, and eBay. In this post, you will learn how to add tracing to a Node.js application on AppSignal. You will use an existing Quotes app that talks to a PostgreSQL database to fetch the quotes. Let’s get going!

Derive Insights from Machine Data with InfluxDB

The panel discussion “From Machine Data to Business Insights, Building the Foundations of Industrial Analytics” discussed modern methods and benefits of deriving insights from machine data. InfluxDB Developer Advocate Jay Clifford explained the trend now is to “allow the builders to bring the Lego blocks and build them together how they see fit.

Automating Capacity Planning for IP Networks: A Journey into the Future

By automating capacity planning for IP networks, we can achieve cost reduction, enhanced accuracy, and better scalability. This process requires us to collect data, build predictive models, define optimization objectives, design decision algorithms, and carry out consistent monitoring and adjustment. However, the initial investment is large and the result will still require human oversight.

Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams

Issues with Microsoft Teams can be very impactful for organizations. There is a huge loss in productivity associated with teams performance issues and outages, it is also extremely disruptive to workflows. There are also financial costs to these issues, at the end-user level this can cause end users to miss deadlines and delay projects and the cost of IT Teams spending time troubleshooting or requiring external consultants or even Microsoft to assist, this cost adds up over periods of time.

How to Diagnose Internet Problems in Your Network

In today's digital age, a reliable and high-speed Internet connection is vital for the smooth operation of businesses. From communication and collaboration to accessing cloud-based services and online transactions, a stable internet connection is crucial for ensuring productivity and efficiency. However, despite the advancements in technology, network issues can still arise, leading to frustrating downtime and hampering business operations.