Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Happy New Year! We hope you had a relaxing and safe holiday season, but now it’s time to get back to work! This week we share articles on the UX of Loki, visualizing pull request data from BitBucket, monitoring and observability predictions for 2019 and more! Also, we’ll be making some exciting announcements for GrafanaCon in the coming days, so stay tuned and get your ticket now!

Record keeping tasks such as data retention and disposal are an essential part of business management and regulatory compliance. At its core, data retention is about data control—meaning that an organization has taken steps to identify data throughout its organization, and then assess its importance, determine how long it will keep it, and then dispose of it.

Loki and Grafana are a perfect match. The backend is kept lean and space-efficient, while the user interface allows ad-hoc field parsing and simple statistics. This post details some of the UX goals we had to deliver logs simpler and faster.

A little more than four years ago, Anodot started applying advanced AI/ML and unsupervised learning technologies to simplify monitoring challenges for DevOps teams. Today our company has customers from a variety of verticals and departments harnessing our unique platform to monitor business health, user behavior, product usage, IT ops, machine learning processes and even IoT.

Multi-cloud is a cloud computing strategy that uses two or more different cloud services. This can be a combination of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions running in a public or private cloud environment. Multi-cloud offers a number of benefits including greater reliability and availability, less vendor lock-in, and potentially lower costs.

In just a few days, we’ll all be embarking on the new year–kicking its tires and planning our conquests for the months to come. This holiday in-between week, while the days are just barely beginning to get a little longer, seems like a good time to look back on the events of the past year and remember some of the good times we’ve shared–so join me for a little retrospective fun.

We performed a comparison between ELK log analysis tool and XpoLog log management tool. Main points to notice when considering using ELK for your log analysis Vs. XpoLog: 1. XpoLog provides a unique auto mining technology which profiles systems and app log data. XpoLog tool is able to build automatic IT intelligence which helps to understand the source of the problem and subsequently correlate and compute trends on those problems and then create the search analysis queries for the user.

Regardless of what language and framework you use, proper logging is crucial to web development. Logging is key when it comes to debugging and performance monitoring. Knowing how to properly use logging frameworks is an essential part of creating high quality software that is easy to debug.

Today we are releasing Graylog v2.5.1 to fix a few bugs. Many thanks to our community for reporting issues and contributing fixes!