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The latest News and Information on Log Management, Log Analytics and related technologies.

Reducing Your Splunk Bill With Telemetry Pipelines

With 85 of their customers listed among the Fortune 100 companies, Splunk is undoubtedly one the leading machine data platforms on the market. In addition to its core capability of consuming unstructured data, Splunk is one of the top SIEMs on the market. Splunk, however, costs a fortune to operate – and those costs will only increase as data volumes grow over the years. Due to these growing pains, technologies have emerged to control the increasing costs of using Splunk.

Optimizing Your Splunk Experience with Telemetry Pipelines

When it comes to handling and deriving insights from massive volumes of data, Splunk is a force to be reckoned with. Its ability to index, search, and analyze machine-generated data has made it an essential tool for organizations seeking actionable intelligence. However, as the volume and complexity of data continue to grow, optimizing the Splunk experience becomes increasingly important. This is where the power of telemetry pipelines, like Mezmo, comes into play.

How to Build a Culture of Data-Driven Product Management

Product-led growth (PLG) is on the rise, a discipline that relies on the product itself to drive user acquisition, expansion, conversion and retention. Today, 60% of Cloud 100 companies embrace a PLG strategy, because it’s an efficient method of growth with low customer acquisition costs. Plus, cloud-native companies have the unique opportunity to collect more data that shows exactly how customers are using their products, and where potential friction occurs.

Securely Connecting an Amazon S3 Destination to Cribl.Cloud and Hybrid Workers

There are several reasons you may want to route to Amazon S3 destinations, including routing to object storage for archival, routing to S3 buckets to utilize Cribl.Cloud’s Search feature, and archiving data that can be replayed later. When setting up Amazon S3 destinations in Cribl, there are three authentication methods: Auto, Manual, and Secret. Using the Auto authentication method paired with Assume Role is the most secure way to connect Amazon S3 to Cribl.

Log Less, Achieve More: A Guide to Streamlining Your Logs

Businesses are generating vast amounts of data from various sources, including applications, servers, and networks. As the volume and complexity of this data continue to grow, it becomes increasingly challenging to manage and analyze it effectively. Centralized logging is a powerful solution to this problem, providing a single, unified location for collecting, storing, and analyzing log data from across an organization’s IT infrastructure.

Add more context to your logs with Reference Tables

Logs provide valuable information for troubleshooting application performance issues. But as your application scales and generates more logs, sifting through them becomes more difficult. Your logs may not provide enough context or human-readable data for understanding and resolving an issue, or you may need more information to help you interpret the IDs or error codes that application services log by default.

Tracing Services Using OTel and Jaeger

At observIQ, we use the OTel collector to collect host/container-level metrics and logs from our systems. But to get more detailed monitoring of our applications (APM), we use the OTel SDK and instrumentation libraries. This post aims to provide a quick start to setting up tracing exporting to a local Jaeger instance.

Log Analytics: Everything To Know About Analyzing Log Data

Log data is big data! But that’s not why it’s such a big deal. Log data can be really useful if you know what to do with it — which is where log analysis and analytics comes in. Let’s take a look at this valuable activity, starting with what log data can tell us and moving into how we can use analytics to inform business practices. (This article was written in collaboration with Muhammad Raza.)

Get a Sneak Peek with Operator Preview in Cribl Search

At Cribl, we understand precisely what challenges our customers face when running complex searches, and the importance of getting exactly what they need with their queries. Cribl Search’s latest feature, Operator Preview, allows data analysts to test search operators without committing to a full search. It saves time, reduces costs, and streamlines your everyday data analysis.