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Fundamentals of Searching Observability Data: Understanding the Search Process Can Save Time, Complexity, and Money!

On June 28th I will be hosting a webinar, ‘The Fundamentals of Searching Observability Data’. So why should you attend? Because things have, and will continue to change in the way we manage the IT data collected across the enterprise. A recent study shows that enterprises create over 64 zettabytes (ZB) of data, and that number is growing at a 27 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The scary part?

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The Top 5 Trends on SRE Leaders' Minds in 2023: Insights from a Seasoned Executive

I've spent most of my career trying to solve big problems for people. In the early days at New Relic, we were trying to help people scale their systems based without compromising on performance, cost, or the customer experience. Not an easy feat but we gave them a solution that allowed them to accomplish their goals. The key was religiously listening to our customers talk about their wants, needs, hopes and fears. While I am rarely the smartest person in the room, which my partner rarely misses a chance to lovingly remind me, I always do my best to listen to what the brilliant folks in my sphere are talking about.

Understanding Multi Cloud Observability

IT, DevOps, and security teams are figuring out the best ways to manage their complex, ever-growing, ever-changing environments. And one contributing factor to all the complexity is the rise of using multiple cloud services. One cloud service to manage is difficult enough, but adding more to the mix — each with its own interface and set of tools — makes everyone’s job significantly more difficult.

Simplifying log data management: Harness the power of flexible routing with Elastic

In Elasticsearch 8.8, we’re introducing the reroute processor in technical preview that makes it possible to send documents, such as logs, to different data streams, according to flexible routing rules. When using Elastic Observability, this gives you more granular control over your data with regard to retention, permissions, and processing with all the potential benefits of the data stream naming scheme. While optimized for data streams, the reroute processor also works with classic indices.

Dynamic Observability Tools for API Live Debugging

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are a crucial building block in modern software development, allowing applications to communicate with each other and share data consistently. APIs are used to exchange data inside and between organizations, and the widespread adoption of microservices and asynchronous patterns boosted API adoption inside the application itself.

Ep. 3: Who's Watching Your Cloud? Featuring Bill Mulligan

Description: In this episode, Shon dives into the thrilling universe of eBPF with expert Bill Mulligan in this episode of the Cloud Control Podcast. Explore eBPF's transformative impact on cloud computing, development environments, and security. Discover its usage from tech giants like Facebook to everyday Android devices. Venture into the open-source journey of Cilium, an eBPF-based project with diverse applications such as multicluster networking and observability.

Getting Started with Honeycomb Buildevents and GitHub Actions

Buildevents is a small binary used to help instrument builds to generate trace telemetry. It populates the trace with metadata from the GitHub Actions environment so you have details about what occurred throughout the entire build. In this tutorial, learn how to instrument with Buildevents and GitHub actions.

How Our Love of Dogfooding Led to a Full-Scale Kubernetes Migration

The benefits of going cloud-native are far reaching: faster scaling, increased flexibility, and reduced infrastructure costs. According to Gartner®, “by 2027, more than 90% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, which is a significant increase from fewer than 40% in 2021.” Yet, while the adoption of containers and Kubernetes is growing, it comes with increased operational complexity, especially around monitoring and visibility.

The Rise of Open Standards in Observability: Highlights from KubeCon

Today’s IT systems are ever more fragmented. It is commonplace to see polyglot systems, written in multiple programming languages, and using a plethora of tools and cloud services as infrastructure building blocks, whether data stores, web proxy or other functions. In this dynamic cloud-native realm, open standards and open specifications have become integral drivers of compatibility, collaboration, and convergence – the Three C’s of Open Standards, if you will.