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Learn how to use the Grok Debugger effectively for log parsing, with practical tips, debugging techniques, and pattern optimization.

Achieve better application performance with full-stack observability, gaining real-time insights to troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance user experience.

No piece of hardware lasts forever. On the contrary, all hardware eventually deteriorates. That’s why it’s crucial to understand and manage each stage an asset goes through, from procurement to disposal. This journey is called the hardware lifecycle, and its management is known as Hardware Lifecycle Management (HLM).

It's easy to get caught up in the latest software trends and forget about the physical components that make it all possible. Hardware—the tangible parts of our devices—forms the foundation of all computing systems. Without it, our favorite apps and programs would have nowhere to run. But what exactly is hardware? Do we have a definitive hardware definition? And how important is it?

In April, we published a Part I blog on the topic of how we planned to use our own Telemetry Pipelines product here at Mezmo to manage metrics data. Remember that utopia of observability we dreamed about? Well, we’re not quite there yet, but we’ve made progress.

In this update, we’re excited to introduce the latest improvements and new features for the status page. From enhanced navigation to a refreshed design for the Service History Calendar and Event Cards, these changes are designed to provide a smoother and more efficient experience.

Picture this: your alerting system needs to tell you it's broken. Sounds like a paradox, right? Yet that’s exactly the situation we face as an incident management company. We believe strongly in using our own products - after all, if we don’t trust ourselves to be there when it matters most, why should the thousands of engineers who rely on us every day? However, this poses an obvious challenge.

I’m a big fan of tasting menus. In the culinary world they let us sample a variety of dishes in small portions, helping us understand and appreciate different flavors and options. Inspired by this concept and a talk I gave earlier this year, I have crafted a “tasting menu” of OpenTelemetry Collector configurations in Grafana Cloud.

The Microsoft SQL database is frequently used for storing, managing, and retrieving data for various application and computing purposes. However, one common issue that keeps the database from healthy functioning is slow query execution. In this article, you will learn about slow queries and how to track the slow queries in your Microsoft SQL database using Site24x7's SQL Insights.

At Splunk, we're constantly innovating to make our platform more accessible and powerful for users. Today, we're excited to dive into one of our key tools: the Universal Configuration Console (UCC) framework. This powerful framework is revolutionizing how you can create and manage Splunk add-ons, and we want to show you why it's becoming an essential part of the Splunk ecosystem.