One of the best ways to stay current in the fast-evolving field of artificial intelligence and machine learning is by following thought leaders, evangelists, and influencers in the industry. In this article, we’ve selected 10 of the most influential thought leaders (listed alphabetically) that are helping drive the field forward.

The field of data analytics is rapidly evolving alongside advances in technologies such as AI and machine learning. There are many valuable resources online that can help you stay up-to-date with the industry — from news sites, industry analysis, and the latest scientific research. We’re listing the top 10 websites and blogs (listed alphabetically) for anyone interested in keeping up with recent industry developments.

Monitoring Telegraf — the open source, plugin-driven server agent for collecting metrics from stacks, sensors and systems — is important because it allows you to track the health of Telegraf plugins in your stack. It’s for this purpose that the Telegraf Monitoring Template was developed. Before introducing the template, it’s helpful to recall how Telegraf works.

With Elastic 7.9, the Elastic Agent and Fleet were released, along with a new way to structure indices and data streams in Elasticsearch for time series data. In this blog post, we'll give an overview of the Elastic data stream naming scheme and how it works. This is the first in a series of blog posts around the Elastic data stream naming scheme.

Monitoring COVID-19 metrics has become essential as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to impact countries across the globe. Mitigating virus impact and spread requires ongoing tracking of metrics such as cases and fatalities. This is what the InfluxDB COVID-19 Monitoring Template does.

In the first and second part of the blog series, we discussed the importance of correlation analysis in root cause analysis in general and in the context of promotional marketing. In a similar vein, in this blog we walk through how to leverage correlation analysis to address challenges in the telecom space.

AI and analytics are playing critical roles in driving innovation among many businesses riding the digital transformation wave during this pandemic. Many business leaders realize that people are not wired to think exponentially, but incrementally in a linear world, unable to see the ripple effects of their actions. The pandemic has highlighted the enormous impact this has on the quality of decisions made, especially in the context of business.

When investigating a complex system—or learning about it for the first time—you need to explore metrics, traces, logs, and other kinds of data. But as you navigate across different views of your data in dashboards, alert notifications, flame graphs, and so on, it can be hard to keep track of what you have already seen. When a potential issue comes up and time is tight, the last thing you need is to spend time remembering a crucial graph or finding the right browser tab.

Signed search keys in Elastic App Search give you more control over a user's search experience. You can tailor the experience to show results you know are more relevant to the specific user while also controlling what data the user can see and search over.