Today we are releasing the first public beta of Graylog v3.0. This release includes a whole new content pack system, an overhauled collector sidecar, new reporting capabilities, improved alerting with greater flexibility, support for Elasticsearch 6.x, a preview version of an awesome new search page called Views, and tons of other improvements and bug fixes.

Scalability is a core requirement of modern applications. Applications need to be able to handle sudden changes in demand without losing resilience or performance. With the popularity of cloud computing and microservices, DevOps teams have a countless number of platforms and tools for deploying scalable applications. However, true scalability involves much more than just migrating an application to the cloud.

This leading medical care provider manages thousands of facilities and dozens of various patient portals. They needed to find an efficient way to analyze and monitor different services, to obtain maximum availability of their systems – so that patients/doctors get the information they need without interruptions. By implementing XpoLog: Their environment consists of multiple applications, centralized in a main data center, which interacts with all their facilities.

Your organization’s IT system is a complex network of intercommunicating devices that can provide you with an abundance of useful data - if you apply the right practices to gather and filter it. However, to realize how each of these sources interacts and interconnects with one another, you need will to master the art of Information Technology Operations Analytics.

To make it even easier for you to get the debian and rpm packages you need we’re moving to our own repository. The previous repository over at packagecloud will stop working on the 7th of January 2019 and you will have to update your configurations for updates to work.

Happy New Year! We hope you had a relaxing and safe holiday season, but now it’s time to get back to work! This week we share articles on the UX of Loki, visualizing pull request data from BitBucket, monitoring and observability predictions for 2019 and more! Also, we’ll be making some exciting announcements for GrafanaCon in the coming days, so stay tuned and get your ticket now!

Record keeping tasks such as data retention and disposal are an essential part of business management and regulatory compliance. At its core, data retention is about data control—meaning that an organization has taken steps to identify data throughout its organization, and then assess its importance, determine how long it will keep it, and then dispose of it.

Loki and Grafana are a perfect match. The backend is kept lean and space-efficient, while the user interface allows ad-hoc field parsing and simple statistics. This post details some of the UX goals we had to deliver logs simpler and faster.