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Top Audit Logging Best Practices

Audit logs, otherwise referred to as audit trails, are detailed records that document activities or a sequence of activities or events. Typically, they deal with the usage of systems, applications, and/or networks. They are crucial in ensuring security, compliance, and operational oversight and enable users to keep track of the history of all actions executed and who has done what and when.
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How to Quickly Analyze CloudFront Cloud Logs in Amazon S3

Content delivery networks (CDNs) such as Amazon CloudFront generate a flood of log files. In today's world where your customers are all around the globe, it's important to make sure that your websites' application assets are as close to the users as possible.

The 8 Hidden Pitfalls of Using AWS CloudWatch

AWS CloudWatch is a widely used observability tool that comes built into AWS. It provides easy access to logs, metrics, and alarms, making it a convenient choice for teams monitoring AWS workloads. But while CloudWatch offers a lot of power, many teams unknowingly misconfigure or misuse it, leading to unexpected costs, limited visibility, and operational challenges. Here are some common pitfalls we see—and how to avoid them.

Integrating Google SecOps with Bindplane February 2025

Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle) is Google Cloud’s security operations platform (SIEM) that helps you detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. Integrating Bindplane enables an easy way of standardizing how you efficiently collect, process, and forward security-relevant data to Google SecOps. In this live workshop you’ll get a hands-on demo of how to configure log collection with the Bindplane Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector, and best practices for data standardization using open standards and OpenTelemetry.

Search and analyze unsampled logs in real time with Live Tail

With thousands of logs generated every minute from your infrastructure, applications, services, and devices, retaining all of this data for active search and analysis can be cost-prohibitive. Because log volumes continue to grow rapidly as operations scale, it’s common for organizations to implement log management strategies and limit the amount that they store in order to minimize costs.

Lakehouse Demo

Cribl Lakehouse is the first lakehouse built for the unpredictable nature of telemetry data. Unlike traditional solutions for structured data, it eliminates schema complexity and manual transformation while delivering elastic scalability, automated, ​​cost-optimized tiered storage, and federated queries across diverse datasets. IT and security teams can effortlessly store and analyze massive volumes of evolving telemetry data in real time—without data engineering expertise—unlocking the full value of their data with a unified, management experience.