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Imagine your company relies on inaccurate data to drive its strategies, only to realize too late that the information needed to be revised. The consequences could be devastating — missed opportunities, incorrect forecasts, and damaged customer relationships. But by monitoring data, you can understand your company's digital ecosystem comprehensively, make informed decisions, optimize processes, and mitigate risks effectively.

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is a practice that involves monitoring and analyzing the end-to-end digital experience of users interacting with websites, applications, and other digital services. By examining performance, availability, and usability from the end user’s perspective, DEM provides insights into the performance, availability, and usability of these services from the perspective of the end user.

The term index is quite overloaded in the tech world. If you asked most developers what an index is, they might tell you it commonly refers to a data structure in a relational database (RDBMS) that is associated with a table, which improves the speed of data retrieval operations. But what is an Elasticsearch® index?

During our March Cribl User Group livestream, Cribl’s own Eugene Katz covered some of the updates we made to our documentation on Architectural Considerations for deploying Cribl Stream. Topics included our guidelines for determining the ideal number of worker nodes, accounting for throughput variability, and preparing for system failure. The full video has more information on these and other things to consider when determining the right balance between cost and risk for your organization.

As companies embrace containers, microservices, and complex architectural components, systems have grown more and more distributed and unpredictable, increasing the unknown unknowns. How can organizations remain efficient and effective in this type of intricate environment? With observability-driven development.

Organizations use the cloud for scalable computing and storage solutions to meet their changing business needs. However, another deployment model is quickly growing in popularity: edge computing. In fact, Gartner estimates that 75% of enterprise-generated data will originate and be processed at the edge by 2025.