Information and insight gathered from data delivers tremendous value. But data isn’t helpful if you’re drowning in it! For a while, three open source projects, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (together known as the ELK Stack), were touted as the fastest and most cost-efficient approach to managing log and event data.
You have Gigabytes or Terabytes of logs coming in on a daily basis, but now what do you do with them? Should I keep 10 days, 30 days or 1 year? How do I rotate around my logs and configure them in Graylog? Let's talk about the best practices around log retention and how to configure them in Graylog. Log rotation can be done for various reasons ranging from meeting a compliance goal, keeping the size of the index down for faster searches or to get rid of data after a set amount of time.
This post will answer a simple question, “What is MTTD?” The answer—or at least the start of it—was already spoiled by the post title. Sure enough, MTTD stands for “Mean time to detect.” It refers to an important KPI (key performance indicator) in DevOps. Is the question answered? Can we call it a day with that definition? Of course not.
If there is one thing that all Software as a Service (SaaS) companies understand, it is the pressure of “being fired”, as SPS Commerce’s Andy Domeier puts it. SPS Commerce is a cloud-based supply chain management software company and Andy is a Senior Director of Technology there - so he knows what he is talking about. Part of the core value of buying SaaS solutions is that you are typically buying a subscription, which means that you can also cancel that subscription at some point.
Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management company, which means they have a full suite of products that focus on data integration and data management. In fact, they are a leader in 5 different magic quadrants including Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service, Data Quality Tools, and Master Data Management Solutions.
