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Last9’s Telemetry Warehouse now supports Logs and Traces, offering a unified view for high cardinality observability to simplify monitoring and troubleshooting.

Every week, we hear about critical applications failing, leaving users frustrated and businesses scrambling. IT teams are fighting too many fires, dealing with too many disruptions, and spending too much time guessing instead of fixing. A 2023 study by Forrester Consulting found that in the month before the study, 37% of companies estimated they lost between $100,000-$499,000, and 39% lost $500,000-$999,999 due to internet disruptions. The costs are real, and they’re massive.

In the first blog in this series, Setting Up InfluxDB and Visualizing Data: Part 1, we built a data collection and visualization platform for time series data using InfluxDB Cloud Serverless. Inspired by the CSTR with PID controllers use case, the project showcased how to ingest real-time data and visualize it using InfluxDB and Grafana. This follow-up post focuses on InfluxDB’s 3.0 architecture, giving an in-depth look at the platform’s inner workings.

We have added a new function, tz, to InfluxDB 3.0 SQL to improve the ergonomics of working with timezones. This blog post will provide more details on how to use this function and when it makes sense to use it instead of the existing SQL timezone functions.

Understanding Splunk pricing is crucial for organizations evaluating SIEM solutions. This guide examines licensing models, actual costs, and essential pricing factors to help you make an informed investment decision for your security and monitoring needs.

A deeper look into our new, simplified navigation menu for Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments In recent years, the Elastic platform steadily expanded its features and capabilities to address complex and evolving customer needs. As a result, the left navigation became a vast array of over 100 menu items. While our customers deeply value this extensible toolset on a unified platform, daily users need a simple interface for quick access to commonly used tools.

Elastic Observability 8.16 announces several key capabilities: Elastic Observability 8.16 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release. You can also download the Elastic Stack and our cloud orchestration products — Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes — for a self-managed experience. What else is new in Elastic 8.16?

If you have ever faced performance issues in an application, whether it's sluggish load times, long processing delays, or poor scalability you have probably been told that optimizing the code or database is the solution. But what does that really mean in practice? A lot of the time, it boils down to one of two causes: either a poorly optimized algorithm (often with quadratic or exponential time complexity) or an inefficient database query.

Kubernetes offers the ability to scale infrastructure to accommodate fluctuating demand, enabling organizations to maintain availability and high performance during surges in traffic and reduce costs during lulls. But scaling comes with tradeoffs and must be done carefully to ensure teams are not over-provisioning their workloads or clusters. For example, organizations often struggle with overprovisioning in Kubernetes and wind up paying for resources that go unused.