Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

June 2024

Getting the Most out of .NET8 with Loggly

Microsoft’s.NET 8 was released on November 14, 2023, and will be supported for three years as the latest Long Term Support release of.NET. From significant performance gains to simplified orchestration of distributed applications, .NET 8 has something for every user of.NET. In this article, we’ll cover the highlights of.NET 8 and walk through a sample of.NET Aspire. Let’s begin with an always-welcome guest: improved performance.

How can unifying observability and security strengthen your business?

Bolster your organization’s observability and security capabilities on one platform with AI, anomaly detection, and enhanced attack discovery Organizations in today’s digital landscape are increasingly concerned about service availability and safeguarding their software from malicious tampering and compromise. The traditional security and observability tools often operate in silos, leading to fragmented views and delayed responses to incidents.

Logz.io Anomaly Detection: Shedding Light on the Unknown Unkowns

With Anomaly Detection for App 360, Open 360 users can now enlist targeted automation to do more of the work for them — automatically monitoring and alerting any issues occurring within the specific services and microservices they identify as being most critical, which are often those that immediately impact business or SLO-related requirements.

What's New in Logz.io Open 360 | Jan 2024

Explore the innovative features of Logz.io’s Open 360 observability platform. Discover how AI-driven insights can transform your observability and apm process, improve efficiency, and enhance decision-making. Learn from our experts as they demonstrate Logz.io Open 360 capabilities, including real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and more. See how to unlock the full potential of your data with cutting-edge AI technology.

Coralogix new observability solution now available for enterprises

Coralogix continues to invest in and develop solutions to address modern business challenges. One such example of modern business challenges is the field of observability with data complexity and volume increasing all the time. Observability solutions play a key role in digital transformation and operational excellence, helping companies aggregate a growing amount of data, effectively analyze it, and initiate the needed actions to maintain optimal performance and uptime.

What is Syslog? A Guide for IT Professionals

If you’re new to IT, the “what is syslog?” question can get confusing fast because when someone says syslog, they might mean: And, frankly, it’s fair to use the word syslog for all of those. By the end of this article, you’ll understand why. This article will explain the syslog protocol in detail, including its definition, formats, best practices, and challenges.

Optimizing Throughput: Overcoming Syslog TCP Pinning with Cribl's Load Balancing

In modern network systems, managing data flow efficiently is critical, especially when dealing with high volumes of log data. One common challenge for IT teams is the bottleneck caused by Syslog TCP pinning, where a limited number of persistent TCP connections lead to throughput inefficiencies. This blog explores the concept of TCP pinning in depth, discussing its implications on network performance and detailing strategies to alleviate these bottlenecks through innovative load balancing techniques.

Leading Observability Interview Questions

If you're aiming for a position that demands strong monitoring and observability skills, thorough preparation is essential. In this comprehensive guide, we will provide an extensive list of the most frequently asked interview questions about the three pillars of observability; logs, metrics and tracing. Each question is also accompanied by detailed, well-explained answers to ensure that you fully understand the concepts and can confidently demonstrate your expertise.

Experience Full Application Observability with Logz.io App 360

Welcome to our comprehensive demonstration of Logz.io App 360, the ultimate observability solution designed for modern microservices and cloud-native environments. In this video, we will showcase how App 360 can revolutionize your approach to application performance monitoring by providing a unified view of logs, metrics, and traces.

Anomaly Detection with Logz.io App 360

Deep dive into how App 360 helps reduce troubleshooting time with Anomaly Detection. With Anomaly Detection for App 360, Logz.io users can now enlist targeted automation to do more work for you - automatically monitoring and alerting any issues occurring within the specific services and microservices identified as most critical.

Logz.io Log Management Product Tour

See how Logz.io makes log collection and analytics easier, faster, and more cost effective. With Logz.io, quickly explore your data with intuitive and high performance search filters, or accelerate troubleshooting with Log Patterns to scan through your log data in seconds. Visualize spikes, dips, and other trends in your logs with prebuilt and customizable monitoring dashboards.

Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring Product Tour

See how you can centralize your metrics at any scale and unify them with logs and traces for full visibility into infrastructure health and performance. Slice and dice your metric data to quickly gain insights into any component within ephemeral infrastructure. Track tens of thousands of metrics out-of-the-box with open source-based integrations like Prometheus or Logz.io’s Telemetry Collector, while easily filtering out unneeded data to reduce costs. Utilize Kubernetes 360 to get a complete overview of infrastructure health and performance with minimal configuration.

Innovating Security with Managed Detection & Response (MDR) and ChaosSearch

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services occupy an important niche in the cybersecurity industry, supporting SMBs and enterprise organizations with managed security monitoring and threat detection, proactive threat hunting, and incident response capabilities.

Mastering Telemetry Pipelines - Driving Compliance and Data Optimization

Telemetry (Observability) pipelines play a critical role in controlling telemetry data (logs, metrics, events, and traces). However, the benefits of pipeline go well beyond log volume and cost reductions. In addition to using pipelines as pre-processors of data going to observability and SIEM systems, they can be used to support your compliance initiatives. This session will cover how enterprises can understand and optimize their data for log reduction while reducing compliance risk.

Mastering Telemetry Pipelines: Driving Compliance and Data Optimization

I had the opportunity to present with Michael Fratto, Senior Research Analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, at a virtual event hosted by Redmond. We discussed how telemetry pipelines are critical in controlling telemetry data (logs, metrics, events, and traces). Mike shared excellent insights from his recent research survey that discussed the proliferation of observability tools in enterprises and the challenges organizations face in managing those tools. ‍

Use Cribl Copilot to Build a GDPR-compliant Data Pipeline

Cribl Copilot accelerates your productivity, activates the afterburners of your team’s efficiency, eliminates pilot error by closing the skills gap, and gives you a smooth landing of value with your Cribl Stream, Edge, Search, and Lake investment. It’s the fastest and easiest way to make the value of your Cribl data engine soar. Cribl’s Observability Professor is back with another Cribl Copilot demo! Instead of manually building a GDPR-compliant data pipeline, let Cribl Copilot act as your AI wingman and do the heavy lifting!​

Using Cribl Copilot and Cribl Search to Find VPC Flow Logs Across All of Your Datasets

AI-powered Cribl Copilot accelerates your productivity, activates the afterburners of your team’s efficiency, eliminates pilot error by closing the skills gap, and gives you a smooth landing of value with your Cribl Stream, Edge, Search, and Lake investment. It’s the fastest and easiest way to make the value of your Cribl data engine soar. In this video, the Observability Professor shows how easy it is to find VPC Flow logs across all of your datasets using Cribl Search and our search-in-place technology.

Cribl Copilot Accelerates Your Team's Efficiency in Managing IT and Security Data at Scale

Take off on Day 1 of your deployment with Cribl Copilot – your AI wingman – integrating Cribl’s portfolio with your data. AI-powered Cribl Copilot accelerates your productivity, activates the afterburners of your team’s efficiency, eliminates pilot error by closing the skills gap, and gives you a smooth landing of value with your Cribl Stream, Edge, Search, and Lake investment. It’s the fastest and easiest way to make the value of your Cribl data engine soar.

Modernizing the Data Pipeline with Cribl - Aaron Wilson, iHerb & Jon Rust, Cribl

In the quest to turn our outdated and disorderly SIEM into a modern, streamlined and manageable solution, we turned to Cribl. Together we develop a centrally managed environment that empowered our teams to manage multiple data sources and destinations with improved time-to-value, reducing data flow steps, and increasing sustainability. Join this session to learn how we used Cribl to modernize and streamline our SIEM operations into a single point of management solution.

Uncover the benefits of AWS Lambda log analysis with Site24x7

In the ever-growing world of cloud computing, efficient log analysis is crucial for maintaining application health, debugging issues, and ensuring security. While traditional approaches often involve dedicated servers or complex infrastructure, AWS Lambda offers a serverless alternative for log analysis with significant benefits.

Real World Observability AI: An Interactive Chat with Logz.io IQ Assistant

Deep dive into the different use cases and applications for Logz.io IQ Assistant. See how Logz.io's AI-based observability insights are enabling teams to efficiently and effectively tackle common observability hurdles including rising costs and troubleshooting times.

Updates From the Edge: Scalability for 250,000 Nodes and More

We know endpoints can be endless and that you need an efficient, simple way to collect data from all of them— no matter the size of your environment. This is why, in the 4.7 release, our engineering team has worked hard to expand Cribl Edge’s scalability to support 250,000 Edge nodes!!!

Observability for LLMs

So, your company uses LLMs? You’re not the only ones. A survey by Gartner in October 2023 revealed that 55% of organizations were piloting or releasing generative AI projects, and it’s safe to assume that this number has increased since that survey was published. From personalized recommendations in e-commerce, to automated grading in education and fraud detection in finance, LLMs have helped many organizations level up.

Real-world Observability AI: An Interactive Chat with Logz.io IQ Assistant

There’s so much hype around the use of AI in observability — but how does that translate into making tangible progress with your day-to-day tasks? At Logz.io we’ve introduced an AI-based chatbot assistant to the Open 360 platform that automatically delves into your stack, fine-tunes your workflows and enables conversation directly with your systems and data.

Cribl's products help IT and security teams analyze, collect, process, and route data at any scale.

This video showcases how Cribl products work together to power the Data Engine for IT and Security. Watch to see how IT and security teams can transform data management with Cribl. And the best part? No vendor lock-in, ever.

Introduction to Ingesting OpenTelemetry Logs with Loki | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana

Have you just discovered Grafana Loki and are planning to use OpenTelemetry as your instrumentation tool of choice? Or looking for an introduction to what OpenTelemetry is? In this Zero to Hero episode, we cover the basics of instrumenting your code with the Otel SDK, the Otel Collector and the new native Otel endpoint of Loki.

Mastering Linux Logging with ELK: A Step-by-Step Guide

The ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) stack is a centralized logging solution that provides users with comprehensive log searches in a single location. The extensive features and varying uses that the solution offers have led to it becoming one of the most popular tools currently available.

5 Security Logging and Monitoring Mistakes to Avoid

As cybersecurity attack vectors evolve, security logging and monitoring are becoming even more important. Effective logging and monitoring enables organizations to detect and investigate security incidents quickly. Cloud-based attackers are getting more sophisticated, and often rely on stolen credentials to escalate privileges and move laterally within corporate IT networks.

DDoS monitoring: how to know you're under attack

A while back, we covered how to check your Windows IIS and Loggly logs to view the source of a DDoS attack, but how do you know when your network is under attack? It is not efficient to have humans monitor logs every day and every hour, so you must rely on automated resources. Automated DDoS monitoring gives your security team more bandwidth to focus on other important tasks and still get notifications should anomalies happen due to a DDoS event.

Build Edge to Enterprise Resilience in Manufacturing with Splunk

Overview showing how Splunk can help manufacturers to build edge to enterprise resilience to keep operations up and running, no matter what. Learn how Splunk provides solutions in areas such as visibility across all your IT-OT systems to help you catch and respond to problems faster, edge to enterprise monitoring to gain deep insights and drive transformation, and analytics to help you reach your sustainability goals.

A Recap of Gartner Security and Risk Summit: GenAI, Augmented Cybersecurity, Burnout

Last week, on June 3 -5, I attended the Gartner Security and Risk Summit in National Harbor, MD to learn about the latest trends and happenings in security. One thing was clear, artifical intelligence (AI) is the hot topic along with the growing cybersecurity staff shortage due to burnout and lack of talent.

Cisco and Splunk Bring Full-Stack Observability to the Entire Enterprise

We’re excited to announce that soon after the acquisition, Splunk and Cisco started teaming up to deliver engineers and ITOps teams with an improved leading observability experience. With the forces of Splunk and Cisco joined together, observability practitioners will be able to enjoy a new level of troubleshooting and monitoring across their entire stack, regardless of their deployment model.

.conf24 Day 1 Keynote: The Splunk You Love, Now Even Better

It’s time to kick off.conf24! Start the week right with Splunk EVP and GM Gary Steele, who will share how Splunk customers are building a safer and more resilient digital world, plus drop fresh product announcements. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins will join Gary to inspire you about how Cisco + Splunk will power and protect the AI revolution and make the Splunk you love even better. We’ll also welcome a customer guest and give Splunkie and partner award winners a well-deserved moment in the spotlight.

.conf24 Day 2 Keynote: Innovating for the Future

Get pumped for day 2, when we’ll dive deeper into how Splunk and Cisco are revolutionizing the way customers build digital resilience. Hear from Splunk SVP and GM of products & technology, Tom Casey, who will reveal our product vision. He’ll be joined by Jeetu Patel, Cisco EVP and GM of security and collaboration, to share the power of our combined portfolio. And you’ll hear from product leaders about new innovations, with live demos from United Airlines, Progressive Insurance and more.

The Evolution of Data Archiving: How to Get Immediate Access to Archived Data

Data storage has come a long way. It’s impossible to imagine having to search racks of tape reels for specific datasets, and the same is happening for archival storage. This type of storage is very low cost, but the tradeoff is the data isn’t readily available, often requiring 24 hours or more to convert, thaw, and be in a usable format. But what if you could have your cake and eat it, too? Low-cost archival storage AND instant access to your data?

New Splunk Innovations Help Build a Leading Observability Practice for the Whole Enterprise

So much goodness is coming your way! Find out all about the latest and greatest from Splunk Observability that helps you keep your entire stack up and running, no matter where it’s deployed or who’s troubleshooting.

Fast Track to Digital Resilience: Splunk Platform Innovation

It’s critical that you are in the driver seat of your Splunk environment with choice and flexibility, and we have spent the last year extending the capabilities of Splunk’s unified security and observability platform to do so. We have continued to grow and innovate to ensure that you and your team have all the tools you need to have a secure, cost-efficient, and effective environment.

How Apica Flow Economizes Your Splunk Costs

In the current high-volume business environments, the demand for accurate and available data is higher than ever. Traditional data management solutions often fall short, escalating costs and operational challenges. Gartner reports that by 2027, at least 40% of organizations will deploy advanced data storage management solutions, a significant increase from just 15% in early 2023. This shift underscores the urgent need for efficient data management tools.

Mastering Centralized Logging with OpenSearch

For effective centralized logging, OpenSearch is a perfect solution as OpenSearch offers powerful querying and analysis capabilities, and it’s highly scalable and flexible. In this article, we will outline why you should use OpenSearch for centralized logging, before outlining how to easily configure centralized logging in OpenSearch.

The Importance of Observability for Healthcare Providers

The systems and data that healthcare providers utilize and process are fundamental to its successful operation. Therefore these organizations must invest in appropriate and powerful observability solutions that enable them to effectively monitor their systems and valuable data. These tools and solutions allow healthcare providers to securely manage, deliver, and ensure uptime for their entire IT infrastructure.

Your Guide to Observability Engineering in 2024

It may sound complicated and daunting, but so much of observability is about discovering the unknown unknowns in your critical systems. The capabilities of observability engineering can help you make those discoveries. Most organizations have some form of monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting, which can be adequate to a point but fall short when trying to determine the root cause of unexpected outages.

From "rebooting" to reliable and secure applications: Optimizing the customer experience

Not so long ago in my career, I remember when it was relatively acceptable for infrastructure or development teams to solve a problem by rebooting a server or just “turning things off and on again.” It didn’t matter what caused the problem or how long the reboot would fix things, provided they were fixed for now. Security teams were always held to a different standard.

6 Tips to Integrate Container Orchestration and APM Tools

Application performance monitoring (APM) setup and strategies vary based on the application’s infrastructure design. Containers managed by orchestration tools like Docker Swarm or Kubernetes are dynamic and ephemeral, significantly affecting monitoring strategies. Container development speeds up an organization’s ability to build, deploy and scale new features.

Get More Out of Cribl Edge by Dropping Events

In today’s environments, the number of endpoints seems to be endless. Simultaneously, with more advanced bad actors and increasingly complex systems, it is more important than ever that no endpoint goes unmonitored. However, many solutions simply can’t keep up with this growing scale of data collection at the edge.

What You Need to Know: 2024 Observability and Security Market Map

In today’s interconnected digital landscape, staying on top of market trends is essential for businesses aiming to thrive in the evolving world of observability and security. Recently, Cribl hosted a webinar to shed light on 2024 industry trends, and opportunities and challenges for both end users and vendors.. One of the notable highlights of the webinar is the convergence of observability and security, reflecting the shared data challenges faced by both IT and security teams.

AWS vs GCP: Which Cloud Service Logs Can Provide the Most Valuable Data to Improve Your Business

The infrastructure and services running on public cloud computing services like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) produce massive volumes of logs every day. An organization’s log data provides details about their entire IT environment in real-time, or at any point in time in history.

Why More Choices Matter With Observability Tools

Observability is a broad topic that provides visibility into the key metrics powering customer-facing applications. These applications range from external facing applications ( e.g., Internet banking/online education/e-commerce/government records ) to internal facing applications ( e.g., Trading systems by brokers, Logistics controllers, Traffic Management, and Hotel Reservations). Observability also incorporates backend systems powering industries that ensure smooth operations of tools and processes.

Node.js Logging Best Practices - A Complete Guide

Logging is essential in Node.js for tracking errors, monitoring performance, and debugging issues. Traditional node.js logging methods, like using console.log(), are often insufficient due to unstructured, cluttered logs that are hard to read. They lack features like log levels, proper formatting, and efficient storage management. Best practices for logging ensure logs are useful, structured, and manageable. Implementing these best practices is crucial for several reasons.

Elastic Observability 8.14: New feature for SLO, AI Assistant, and .NET for Universal Profiling

Elastic Observability 8.14 announces the general availability (GA) of key Service Level Objective (SLO) management capabilities, additional enhancements to the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability, alerting improvements, and Universal Profiling for.NET. Enhanced SLO management capabilities: Enhanced AI Assistant capabilities.

Elastic Search 8.14: Faster and more cost-effective vector search, improved relevance with retrievers and reranking, RAG and developer tooling

We're committed to pushing the boundaries of search development and focusing on empowering search builders with powerful tools. With our latest updates, Elastic becomes even more potent for customers dealing with vast amounts of data represented as vectors. These enhancements promise faster speeds, reduced storage costs, and seamless integration between software and hardware.

Cisco builds a unified observability experience between AppDynamics and Splunk

Our unified observability initiative enables a seamless experience across AppDynamics and Splunk. The first unified observability integrations include SSO and contextual deep linking, allowing users to quickly and intuitively navigate between AppDynamics and Splunk throughout the hybrid troubleshooting workflow. This dramatically improves operational productivity, accelerates mean time to detect (MTTD), and reduces time to remediation (MTTR).

Introducing AppDynamics Log Observer Connect with Splunk

AppDynamics Log Observer Connect with Splunk enables in-context navigation between AppDynamics and Splunk. This unified observability troubleshooting experience promises to streamline problem identification, but also aligns cross-functional teams by providing shared insights into application performance issues across tools.

Fixing Kafka Streams Uneven Tasks Distribution at Logz.io

At Logz.io we provide an observability platform with the ability to ship logs, metrics, and traces and then interact with them using our app. LogMetrics is an integral part of our observability offering, which bridges the gap between logs and metrics. It provides the seamless conversion of one type of signal to another. It empowers our customers to gain critical insights faster while also reducing their monitoring bill.

DORA Metrics for $0.02 a day

There are many solutions on the market that are promising insight into the four key metrics. Alas, these solutions often come with a significant price tag. Coralogix doesn’t charge per feature, per user, per host or per query. We charge by GB. And that, coupled with some incredible analytics and indexless observability, makes for some incredible insights that cost almost nothing.

Unleashing the Power of Data: Announcing the Official Partnership Between Observo AI and Splunk

Observo AI is excited to announce that we are an official partner with Splunk, a Cisco company. Pairing Splunk Enterprise with Observo AI's observability and security data pipeline enhances the capabilities and efficiencies of security and DevOps teams even further. By optimizing data before it hits a Splunk index and creating a fully searchable data lake for long-term retention, Observo AI can optimize customers’ infrastructure costs including storage, cloud egress, and compute.

Why Telemetry Pipelines Should Be A Part Of Your Compliance Strategy

In 2023, the global regulatory fines exceeded a colossal $10.5bn. It is not an isolated story. For the past few years, data, privacy, and industry-specific regulations have been getting stricter, enforcement is becoming rigorous, and non-compliance fines are going through the roof. Just look at this list on CSO Online of the biggest data breaches and subsequent fines companies like Meta, Amazon, and Equifax experienced in recent history.

Blackpoint Cyber & ChaosSearch | Customer Story

The leader in cybersecurity, Blackpoint Cyber, has teamed up with ChaosSearch, to create a next-generation data platform for log analytics for observability & security. We look forward to working with the Blackpoint team on tackling the rising costs & pain of ELK, while significantly increasing data retention, building a future-proof data platform for the increasingly challenging cybersecurity environment & AI-driven world.

FOSS in Flux: Redis Relicensing and the Future of Open Source

In the past few years we’ve been witnessing tectonic shifts in the open source realm, with established projects taken off open source or otherwise turning to the dark side. On the other hand, we’ve seen active forks aiming to keep these projects open gaining momentum. What does it mean for the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement? Is this a trend or just a passing wave? What can we learn from it as vendors and as a community?

Cribl Named to Rising in Cyber 2024 by Notable Capital

We are thrilled to announce that Cribl has been named to the Rising in Cyber 2024 list by Notable Capital! This independent recognition highlights the most innovative cybersecurity companies as viewed by Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), venture capital investors, and other industry leaders.

Google Cloud Logging 101 - How to manage log routing at scale

Cloud logging’s log router is a power tool that gives you the flexibility to choose which logs are stored in Cloud Logging, sent to other Google Cloud products like Cloud Storage, or even sent to your favorite third-party product. In this video, we'll explore log sinks, aggregated sinks for centralized management, and the intercepting option to prevent duplicate log storage, equipping you with the knowledge to streamline your log management workflow in Google Cloud.

The Leading Real User Monitoring Tools

Utilizing real-user metrics from your applications frontend can provide a significant advantage to your company. Real user metrics offer insights into how users interact with your product or service. By monitoring metrics like page load times, response times, and overall performance, you can highlight areas where users could be experiencing frustration or encountering problems. This information can then be utilized to make targeted improvements to enhance the user experience.

The Leading Analytics Dashboard Examples

You're mostly likely already tracking numerous business critical metrics but you may not be aware of how to make this process quicker and simpler. Analytics dashboards are graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that offer visual representations of data collected from multiple sources, such as databases, websites, applications, or other data repositories. These dashboards can make it much easier to derive insights from your analysis compared to examining numbers and metrics.

Logz.io Upgrades App 360, Kubernetes 360 with AI Assistant, New Tracing Quickview

At Logz.io, we believe the future of observability will center on the rapid advancement of automation, innovations around artificial intelligence, and streamlining processes that currently remain far too complex. This is no different than many other areas of technology, but the opportunities in observability are vast, and we see all of these areas connecting and driving improvements to the Logz.io Open 360 platform.

Building the Cribl Lake Team: A Customer-Centric Approach

In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, how does a company ensure that its products truly meet the needs of its customers? At Cribl, the answer lies in our unwavering commitment to a customer-centric mindset. This philosophy has driven our success, enabling us to develop groundbreaking solutions like Cribl Lake. The story of Cribl Lake is not just about the product itself but also about the people behind it and our unique approach to building the team that brought this solution to life.