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From Logs to Metrics Part 1: Building an Open-Source Logs-to-Graphite Pipeline

Monitoring doesn't always need to be complex. In this guide, we'll show you how to turn raw logs into usable metrics using a lightweight open-source setup with no ELK stack and no heavy lifting. We'll use Loki, Python, and Telegraf to convert logs into Graphite metrics you can easily monitor or alert on. This is perfect for system admins, DevOps beginners, or anyone curious about building more innovative monitoring pipelines from scratch.

AI and the Data Value Challenge: Why It's Time to Rewrite the Rules of Data Management

Like the sailor in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” surrounded by ocean water that he cannot drink, modern organizations contend with similar challenges: data is all around, but it’s not doing them much good (or as much as it could at least). Exploding data volumes have complicated the data management strategies for security and observability teams seeking to contain costs while meeting regulatory and compliance obligations.

Is OpenTelemetry ready for Infra Monitoring?

“A system is never the sum of its parts; it's the product of their interaction.” — Russell Ackoff, Systems Thinker Infrastructure monitoring is an attempt to capture and record the product of interactions between various systems. Infrastructure monitoring comes across as challenging and tedious, often spread across multiple tooling system.

12 OpenTelemetry-Compatible Platforms You Should Know in 2025

OpenTelemetry has transformed how engineering teams implement observability. This vendor-neutral framework for collecting metrics, traces, and logs has become indispensable for several reasons: Elimination of vendor lock-in Organizations can switch observability providers without changing instrumentation code, enabling greater flexibility and negotiating power with vendors.

Application Debugging in Sentry with Flags, Tracing, and Seer

In this video, Cody takes you on a tour or fixing problems in the Unborked marketplace using Flags, Traces, and Seer! Sentry is all about giving you options when it comes to debugging - whether its using the dev toolbar to manage feature flags on the fly, using replays and tracing to dive deep into whats happening in your application, or even using Seer (in beta) to pull all the context from your application together - everything from traces, to errors, to stack traces and more - and give you a root cause of what went wrong, and pull a PR to fix it.

Pandora FMS Stands Out in G2 Spring 2025 Reports: 35 Key Recognitions in Monitoring and Cybersecurity

Madrid, April 2025 – The monitoring and observability platform Pandora FMS has been recognized in 35 leading reports in the G2 Spring 2025 edition, solidifying its position as one of the most versatile solutions for managing complex IT infrastructures, hybrid environments, and critical operations.

How to keep Ingress NGINX Controller metric volumes manageable and still meaningful

The Ingress NGINX Controller is a widely used Kubernetes component for managing HTTP and HTTPS traffic routing. While it provides powerful observability through Prometheus metrics, it’s also notorious for generating an excessively high number of time series. The root cause lies in how the controller labels its metrics—tracking requests across multiple dimensions such as ingress name, host, path, status code, and upstream response times.