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Smarter Insights and Pipeline Control - New in DataStream

We’re constantly improving DataStream to make security data management simpler, smarter, and more efficient for modern SOCs. This latest update introduces new capabilities that bring even more visibility and flexibility to your telemetry pipelines. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new.

New in OTel: Auto-Instrument Your Apps with the OTel Injector

As distributed systems scale, maintaining manual instrumentation across services quickly becomes unsustainable. The OTel Injector addresses this by automatically attaching OpenTelemetry instrumentation to applications, no code changes needed. This blog covers how the OTel Injector works, how it integrates with Linux environments, and how to set it up for consistent telemetry across your stack.

Why Your Loki Metrics Are Disappearing (And How to Fix It)

Grafana Loki is up and running, log ingestion looks healthy, and dashboards are rendering without issues. But when you query logs from a few weeks ago, the data's missing. This is a recurring problem for many teams using Loki in production: while the system handles short-term log visibility well, it often lacks the retention guarantees developers expect for historical analysis and incident review.

The Digital Sovereignty Revolution: Why Big Tech Is Losing UK Trust

In a world where data is power, UK businesses are demanding control. Civo’s latest whitepaper, The Digital Sovereignty Revolution, uncovers the top challenges UK businesses face in securing true data sovereignty from eroding trust in Big Tech to geopolitical instability. Our latest research, based on a survey of 1,000+ UK IT decision-makers, reveals the extent to which sovereignty is reshaping the UK's tech sector. From the risks of relying on US-based providers to the benefits of multi-cloud strategies, the whitepaper explores key trends and what they mean for UK businesses.

Stop guessing! Speedscale's Notebook finds anything in your traffic.

Debugging complex microservices just got an upgrade. This video demonstrates Speedscale's innovative Notebook capability, allowing you to perform advanced substring searches and filter production traffic based on deeply nested JSON fields within request and response bodies. Unlike traditional observability tools that only record telemetry, Speedscale's always-on recorder captures full traffic payloads, empowering you to precisely pinpoint issues, identify specific user calls, or validate API versions. Streamline your troubleshooting, enhance your testing, and gain unprecedented visibility into your production environment.

Introducing Schedule Rotations: One Schedule, Many Rotations, Total Coverage

When coverage gets complicated, Schedule Rotations keeps it simple. On-call can get real messy, real fast. One minute you’ve got a neat little schedule for the two people rotating primary and secondary. Next thing you know, you’ve got engineers in three time zones, a new hire shadowing incidents, and your “simple” rotation has turned into a board game with no rules. So we fixed it.

How to monitor and manage front-end observability in Blackfire

In this video, we'll guide you through the process of monitoring and managing your usage of front-end observability features in Blackfire. Learn how to access your Browser usage dashboard to view browser traces collected per environment, track your quota consumption, and understand the concept of spike protection. You'll discover how Blackfire's automatic detection of abnormal traffic spikes protects your monthly quota and ensures continuous data collection.