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How to Choose the Best CDN Monitoring Tool for Your Needs

Rich content like videos and graphics used to cause network congestion and long load times when all the content was stored on a centrally located server. Fortunately, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) came to the rescue in the late 1990s, letting users load rich content from a location geographically closer to them and reducing load times by distributing a cached version of content across servers worldwide.

The Importance of an API Observability Pipeline for SaaS Tools

Third-party APIs and cloud based software as a service (SaaS) tools have become a cornerstone of modern enterprises. It is essential to monitor log data and optimize API performance. This will ensure that development teams provide the desired advantages to clients and users. To address this challenge, businesses can use an observability pipeline. It is a set of tools and processes that monitor and analyze data from various sources. That includes third-party APIs and SaaS tools.

The Met Office gains valuable data insights to make informed decisions with Elastic

The Met Office, the UK's national weather service, is tasked with predicting the unpredictable - the ever-changing weather patterns that can have a huge impact on people's lives. Having been in the business for over 150 years, they require a reliable and powerful monitoring and insights capability to ensure their systems and processes run optimally.

3 Observability Takeaways from DevOps Pulse 2023

The observability landscape is changing fast, as organizations look to deploy applications and separate themselves from competition at a breakneck pace. What are the trends organizations need to be aware of as they make sense of the landscape? Every year, we at Logz.io set out to answer this question by going right to the DevOps and observability practitioners on the front lines.

New Logz.io Platform Feature: The Home Dashboard

Managing observability data can feel like a juggling act. Modern cloud applications generate vast amounts of data, and quickly accessing the most important data is a fundamental step toward quickly gaining unobstructed visibility into your infrastructure and applications. Yet, when data volumes grow, complexity follows. Many observability users find it overwhelming to assess the critical data generated from their complex infrastructure and applications.

Industry Experts Discuss Cybersecurity Trends and a New Fund to Shape the Future

In this live stream discussion, angel investor Ross Haleliuk joins Cribl’s Ed Bailey to make a big announcement about his new fund to shape the future of the cybersecurity industry. Ross is a big believer in focusing on the security practitioner to provide practical solutions to common issues by making early investments in companies that will promote these values.

How to: Search your logs using query language in AppLogs

Collect, consolidate, index, and search logs to gain actionable insights using Site24x7 AppLogs. Add a log profile and log type to start managing your logs. Run an easy-to-understand query language search to filter out invalid values and obtain actionable results quickly. Learn more about query syntax, structure, and types from the help docs below.

Using AIOps effectively with Elastic Observability

Over the past several years, one topic that has become of increasing importance for DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams is AIOps. Artificial intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) is the application of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and analytics to improve the day-to-day operational work for IT operations teams.

Cribl Reference Architecture Series: How SpyCloud Architected its Cribl Stream Deployment

Deploying new tools can be a challenging process for Operations and Security data teams. However, we recently released a reference architecture for Cribl Stream to streamline this process and reduce trial and error. During a live discussion, Cribl's Ed Bailey and SpyCloud's Ryan Sauders will share a real-life example of how a long-time customer utilized this reference architecture to build a scalable deployment. Ryan will explain how this approach enabled SpyCloud to grow alongside its evolving needs, without requiring significant rework.

What Is Prompt Engineering? Strategies for Creating Effective AI Inputs

The release of ChatGPT in November of 2022 elicited excitement from all corners of the internet. It could write code, diagnose patients, ace exams, write books and more — all in a matter of seconds. Yet, many people were left underwhelmed by the results. Inputting “write a blog post about…” resulted in bland and formulaic articles no one wanted to read. The AI doomers could breathe a sigh of relief as it became apparent AI wasn’t coming for tech jobs any time soon.