Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Parallelizing with Playwright: A Scalable Win for Cribl.Cloud

An oft-forgotten component of robust, production-ready code is testing. The moat protects us from costly service interruptions and fortifies trust in our product with our customers. Simply put, it’s in the critical path of damn good software. However, as we scale a cloud product to serve a rapidly growing user base, our test case scenarios scale correspondingly. As far as testing goes, end-to-end (E2E) testing most closely mirrors the end-user experience.

Have You Done Your Spring Cleaning (Of Agents)?

While spring is traditionally the time for tidying up for most folks, IT and Security teams know it is important always to maintain a clean, streamlined environment. However, we understand that doesn’t always happen with growing data volumes, stagnant budgets, and changing organizational priorities. This blog is to help you understand if you are properly overdue for a clean-up.

The Top 10 System Monitoring Tools

System monitoring can be viewed as being closely related to infrastructure monitoring, but there are differences between the two concepts, particularly with their scopes within the realm of IT monitoring. Infrastructure monitoring concentrates on monitoring the physical and virtual components of an IT environment, such as servers, networks, storage systems, and cloud services.

Telemetry Data Compliance Module

Telemetry data sent from applications often contains Personally Identifying Information (PII) like names, user IDs, phone numbers, and other information that must be obfuscated before the data is sent to storage or observability tools, in order to be in compliance with corporate or government policies such as HIPAA in the US or the GDPR in the EU.

Update on Cisco and Splunk Observability, Better Together

Eight weeks. When someone asks me about the synergies of Cisco + Splunk with regards to full-stack observability, I think about how much we’ve accomplished in just eight weeks. Eight weeks since the close of the acquisition, our teams have already come together to jointly develop, and will deliver, a new capability for enabling observability across the entire digital footprint for both Cisco and Splunk customers.

DevOps and SRE Metrics: R.E.D., U.S.E., and the "Four Golden Signals"

In the fast-paced realm of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), success starts with effective monitoring. Understanding the fundamental metrics is crucial for identifying and mitigating issues proactively. In this article, we’ll delve into the leading metrics frameworks — R.E.D., U.S.E., and the “Four Golden Signals” — which will provide you with a solid foundation to enhance your monitoring practices.

My 3 Lessons About OpenTelemetry for Observability

As a fan of OpenTelemetry, I love to see Cribl meeting customers where they are and helping them get to where they want to be with a vendor-agnostic approach. Where it is not possible or practical to re-instrument a telemetry source, whether an application or infrastructure, the barrier to adopting OpenTelemetry Signals can be daunting.

Grafana Loki query acceleration: How we sped up queries without adding resources

As we discussed when we rolled out the latest major release of Grafana Loki, we’ve grown the log aggregation system over the past five years by balancing feature development with supporting users at scale. A big part of the latter has been making queries much faster — and that was a major focus with Loki 3.0 too. We’ve seen peak query throughput grow from 10 GB/s in our Loki 1.0 days to greater than 1 TB/s even before 3.0.

Best Logging Practices: 14 Do's and Don'ts for Better Logging

Ever found yourself drowning in a sea of log data, struggling to make sense of the overwhelming noise? Or perhaps faced a major system breakdown, only to find that your logs didn’t provide the answers you needed, leaving you in the dark? Effective logging is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of software development and operations, highlighting why logging is important – it’s the foundation upon which observability, troubleshooting, and system maintenance are built.

Isolation: A New Wave of Experiences to Help Teams Work Side by Side

Cribl offers a suite of tools designed to optimize data pipelines, with different components tailored for managing and orchestrating data flows at scale across different teams and data sources. One of the biggest problems with building and running a multi-team data engine is isolation. This blog will cover how we at Cribl have handled the challenge of data, configuration, and access isolation for growing teams.

Log Formatting: 8 Best Practices for Better Readability

Logs act as silent sentinels, recording every whisper of your application’s activity. They are invaluable chronicles illuminating system behavior, diagnosing issues, and providing crucial insights into your application’s health. However, the true power of logs lies not just in their existence, but in how they are formatted. Log formatting is pivotal in transforming these raw data streams into actionable intelligence.

Introduction to Ingesting logs with Loki | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana

Have you just discovered Grafana Loki? In this Zero to Hero episode, we dive deeper into how to ingest your logs into Loki. Buckle up and get ready to learn about: Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

Instrumenting your Codebase with OpenTelemetry

Ready to unlock the full potential of your applications through comprehensive instrumentation? Join us for a webinar focused on the essentials of instrumenting your codebase with OpenTelemetry. From tracing requests to capturing metrics and logs, we'll guide you through the process of integrating OpenTelemetry seamlessly into your development workflow. Gain the visibility you need to optimize performance, troubleshoot issues, and deliver exceptional user experiences.

How to Monitor Host Metrics with OpenTelemetry

Today's environments often present the challenge of collecting data from various sources, such as multi-cloud, hybrid on-premises/cloud, or both. Each cloud provider has its own tools that send data to their respective telemetry platforms. OpenTelemetry can monitor cloud VMs, on-premises VMs, and bare metal systems and send all data to a unified monitoring platform. This applies across multiple operating systems and vendors.

A look at Azure monitoring and troubleshooting

Even now, plenty of businesses are still making the shift to the cloud. Chief decision-makers are plagued by fears about availability, potential downtime and security. Organizations adopting Microsoft Azure need to be able to confidently make the transition without interruptions, which requires building out a strategy for monitoring your Azure environment.

Observability Onboarding Video Series Part 2 (of 3): Adding Use Cases!

The 2nd video in this series walks you through the next stage of onboarding, with a focus on two key use cases: Monitoring with Kubernetes Pods with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring and Troubleshooting Microservices with Splunk Application Performance Monitoring.

What is Log Analytics? The Significance of Log Analytics Solutions Explained

Every action, transaction, and interaction in an application generates some sort of data. ThisAnd this data holds a wealth of information that, when collected and analyzed over a period of time, provides a comprehensive view of application behavior and performance. Logging is the most widely used technique for collecting data on application states, transactions, errors, and code flow tracking.

Pipeline Module: Event to Metric

At the most abstract level, a data pipeline is a series of steps for processing data, where the type of data being processed determines the types and order of the steps. In other words, a data pipeline is an algorithm, and standard data types can be processed in a standard way, just as solving an algebra problem follows a standard order of operations.

Demystifying Kubernetes Observability with Generative AI and LLMs

Generative AI and large language models (LLM) are fundamentally changing the way we interact with data, especially in the realm of Kubernetes and observability. These technologies are reshaping our field, and there is a lot to understand and unpack so organizations like yours can make sense of it all. What data is important, and what isn’t? How can LLMs make my day-to-day easier, and what do I need to do to ensure I don’t get overwhelmed?

How To Visualize Business Service Performance with Splunk ITSI

The complex nature of modern digital landscapes means the ability to effectively monitor and understand its impact on your business is not just desirable — it's a necessity. This is where Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) comes into play. ITSI offers a sophisticated platform for service insights and detailed analytics that can be used by digital operations teams as the first step of a troubleshooting workflow.

Kubernetes Alerting: 10 Must-Have Alerts for Proactive Monitoring

Running a Kubernetes cluster includes keeping an eye on it to make sure your apps and services are healthy. You don’t want to be staring at a bunch of Kubernetes dashboards all day, though. You want to set up kubernetes alerting with appropriate alerts instead, right? With k8s alerts, you will spot problems quickly in your Kubernetes cluster and hopefully fix them quickly as well. But what should you alert on? Here are the top 10 most important alerts you should set up for your Kubernetes cluster.

Logz.io Observability IQ Assistant: Practical AI that Helps You Work Smarter

AI has been the biggest macro-trend in technology for some time now, and the observability space is no exception to this rule. Just look at the findings of the 2024 Observability Pulse Report; it’s evident that organizations are hungry for AI capabilities that help address pervasive issues of observability process maturity, the talent shortage, ever-increasing MTTR, and the skyrocketing cost of observability.

Cribl Packs a Punch: Unpacking the Integration with Microsoft Azure Sentinel with Cribl Source and Destination Packs

With IT modernization and increased cloud usage, more organizations are looking to Software-as-a-Service offerings for their security and data needs. Microsoft Azure Sentinel is a cloud-based SIEM that security operation centers rely on for data analytics. Cribl makes it easier for Microsoft Azure Sentinel customers to get data into their security analytics platform. Leveraging Cribl Packs, organizations can easily ingest data from various vendors with various formats while requiring little effort.

Coralogix secures 106 badges in G2 Spring 2024 Reports

One more season and one more clean sweep! The G2 Spring 2024 Reports are out, and Coralogix has secured 106 badges across various categories and market segments. Coralogix has also secured a “Users Love Us” badge that showcases our customers’ trust in Coralogix. We are excited because there’s a lot more. Read on! Every quarter, G2 releases reports highlighting the best software and services of the season.

observIQ Earns Gartner Nod for Cutting-Edge Observability Innovation

observIQ provides a unified telemetry platform using open standards and a powerful agent to collect, enrich, and transmit data. Built on an open-source framework, OpenTelemetry, it focuses on log management, metrics, and traces for modern observability at scale.

Customer Experience (CX) Metrics

As enterprises seek to improve their bottom line, the need to delight their customers is paramount. One major framework used to strategize for business success is the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), which tracks the four perspectives of customer: To address customer concerns such as time, quality, service performance, and cost, organizations must stay on top of their game — this often means streamlining processes and investing in capability to enhance their products and services delivery.

Docker Logging - Types, Configuring Drivers, Logging Strategies [Complete Guide]

Log analysis is a very powerful feature for an application when it comes to debugging and finding out which flow is working properly in the application and which is not. In a world of containerization and cloud computing, it is essential to understand logs generated by a Docker environment to maintain healthy performing applications. In this article, we will discuss log analysis in Docker and how logging in Docker containers is different than in other applications.

Elasticsearch vs Splunk - Top Pick for Log Analysis

Elasticsearch and Splunk can both be used as log analysis tools for software applications. Elasticsearch, as part of the Elastic Stack, offers a highly scalable, open-source solution for real-time search and analytics across diverse data types, excelling in customization but with a steeper learning curve.

Configure your Docker Syslog Logging Driver

Logs are useful for troubleshooting and identifying issues in applications, as they provide a record of events and activities. However, managing log data can be challenging due to the large volume of log events generated by modern applications, as well as the need to balance the level of detail in the logs and the impact on the application's performance.

Generative AI for Kubernetes: Meet K8sGPT Open Source Project

Troubleshooting within Kubernetes environments can be a daunting task. If we could only have a magical artificial intelligence advisor that could gather all the data about what goes on the system, and tell me what’s wrong, and even how to solve it. Wouldn’t it be nice? K8sGPT is a young open source project that uses generative AI to give Kubernetes superpowers to everyone. It recently turned a year old, and is now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

The Leading OpenSearch Training Resources

OpenSearch has grown to be one of the most widely used open-source search engine projects. The high flexibility of the solution enables it to be the perfect option for a broad range of use cases, such as log and event data analysis, application monitoring and metrics analysis, and security information and event management (SIEM).

What Is Network Architecture?

Every business needs a well-designed network architecture. The network architecture is essential to how you organize and manage your IT infrastructure to transfer data between devices and applications securely and efficiently. A network architecture comprises a layered structure, which breaks down communication tasks into smaller parts. This way, each layer can focus on a specific function and avoid complex combinations of cases.

Tackling the Unsustainable Skills Challenge in Cybersecurity and Observability

This is the third and final post in a series of blog posts about the disconnect between modern IT and security teams and the vendors they’re forced to work with. If you’re looking for the first and second posts, you can find them here and here.

Simplify Log Management Across Any Cloud

Developers waste countless hours managing logs and juggling tools. Control Plane centralizes log management, making it easy to filter and analyze logs from apps running on any cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem, etc. In this video, we demonstrate how Control Plane simplifies log management for your applications deployed across any cloud (or multi-cloud). We showcase the intuitive Log QL query language, built-in Grafana integration, and the flexibility to ship logs to your favorite external log providers like Datadog, S3, Elastic, and CloudWatch.

Elasticsearch accelerates building AI search apps on serverless

Today we are announcing the availability of Elasticsearch Serverless in technical preview, which features: Early access customers have used this new self-service option for a range of use cases — from internal analytics to building generative AI applications and conducting machine learning tasks.

Log Monitoring: Challenges and Best Practices for Modern Applications

Almost everyone acknowledges that log monitoring is essential for maintaining the reliability, security, and performance of modern applications. However, the complexities increase as organizations adopt diverse architectures to effectively manage the various log data challenges they encounter. In our previous blog post, we discussed the significance of log monitoring alongside a few popular log monitoring tools available in the market today.

Finding a Better Way to Work in the Cloud!

With the 4.6 release, Cribl.Cloud Enterprise users now have the opportunity to opt-in to a new cloud experience. As a deeply customer-centric company, we listened to your feedback, and we heard you! We are making our user experience efficient, secure, and flexible. As we work to refine this new experience, we invite you to partner with us and share your input to influence this transformation as it makes its way across the entire Cribl suite!

Comprehensive Guide to Server Uptime Monitoring

This guide offers a deep dive into server uptime monitoring, focusing on the strategies and tools essential for seasoned IT professionals to implement. We’ll explore advanced metrics, fine-tune the deployment of tools like Heartbeat, and dissect integration practices with the ELK stack. Designed for technical leaders who manage complex infrastructures, this guide aims to enhance your methodologies in maintaining high availability and optimizing operational performance across your server ecosystems.

OpenTelemetry: The Key To Unified Telemetry Data

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is an open-source framework designed to standardize and automate telemetry data collection, enabling you to collect, process, and distribute telemetry data from your system across vendors. Telemetry data is traditionally in disparate formats, and OTel serves as a universal standard to support data management and portability.

Modern Observability 101

In technology, having “modern” capabilities is standard. Staying ahead of the curve is critical, and keeping outdated technology or processes going can be a recipe for disaster in a complex, ever-changing landscape. Ensuring the smooth functioning and performance of software systems is paramount. This is where modern observability—a sophisticated approach to monitoring and understanding the inner workings of applications and infrastructure—is required.

Centralized Logging with Open Source Tools - OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

Modern-day software systems emit millions of log lines per minute. Cloud computing and containerization have made it easy to have distributed systems. Distributed systems emit logs from multiple sources. While developers have always used logs to debug stand-alone applications, centralized logging solves the challenges of modern-day distributed software systems.

Deploy The ELK Stack on Kubernetes with Helm

The main objective of the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) is to aggregate logs. However, with the increased usage of ELK and Kubernetes as a pairing the solution can go beyond the aggregation of standard logs and include monitoring and analysis of Kubernetes telemetry data. Therefore, more users are looking at deploying the ELK stack on Kubernetes. Yet, deploying the ELK stack on Kubernetes can be a complex task but with the assistance of Helm charts, the process is much simpler.

Introducing the Elastic distribution of the OpenTelemetry Java Agent

As Elastic continues its commitment to OpenTelemetry (OTel), we are excited to announce the Elastic distribution of the OTel Java Agent. In this blog post, we will explore the rationale behind our unique distribution, detailing the powerful additional features it brings to the table. We will provide an overview of how these enhancements can be utilized with our distribution, the standard OTel SDK, or the vanilla OTel Java agent.

Navigating the Maze of Incumbent Pricing Models in IT and Security

This is the second in a series of blog posts about the disconnect between modern IT and security teams and the vendors they’re forced to work with. If you’re looking for the first and last posts, you can find it here. In the dynamic world of managing observability and telemetry data, pricing models for tools and platforms are showing their age, creating a significant disconnect between vendors and the IT and security teams they serve.

Multi-Project Routing For Google Cloud

When sending data to Google Cloud, like logs, metrics, or traces, it can be beneficial to split the data up across multiple projects. This division may be necessary since each team has its own project, a central project is used for security audit logs, or for any other reason that your organization has. BindPlane has effective tools to manage this process. In this walkthrough, we will add fields to telemetry entries, allowing us to associate entries with a specific project and properly route them.

How to Create an S3 Bucket with AWS CLI

Managing an Elasticsearch cluster can be complex, costly, and time-consuming - especially for large organizations that need to index and analyze log data at scale. In this short guide, we’ll walk you through the process of creating an Amazon S3 bucket, configuring an IAM role that can write into that bucket, and attaching that IAM role to your Amazon S3 instance - all using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).

Mastering Data Distribution with OpenSearch Shards and Replicas

OpenSearch is an open-source distributed search and analytics engine created for scalability, performance, and ease of use. It is built on Apache Lucene and is a fork of Elasticsearch, designed in response to concerns about Elastic's decision to move away from open-source licensing for certain features in Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Reducing MTTR with the Elastic Observability AI Assistant

In this quick overview, discover how the Elastic Observability AI Assistant can streamline your operations and significantly reduce Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR). In just a minute or two, we'll highlight the key features and benefits of integrating AI into your observability strategy. Perfect for IT professionals and SREs who are looking for an efficient solution to improve system uptime and performance. Watch now to learn how AI can make a real difference in your response times!

Performance Optimization with Elastic Observability

Welcome to our quick overview of Performance Optimization with Elastic Observability! In this video, we explore the basics of how Elastic Observability can enhance your system’s performance monitoring and management. Discover key features that help you keep your applications running smoothly and efficiently, without deep diving into complexities. Perfect for anyone looking to get a quick grasp of what Elastic Observability can offer.

Incident Management and Troubleshooting with Elastic Observability

Welcome to our quick guide on enhancing your incident management and troubleshooting capabilities using Elastic Observability. In this brief overview, we'll highlight how Elastic Observability can streamline your operations and help you quickly pinpoint and resolve issues. Whether you're looking to improve your response times or just want a snapshot of what Elastic can offer, this video is the perfect starting point.

Finding unknown/unknowns in logs for SREs with Elastic Observability

Welcome to a quick overview of how Elastic Observability can help SREs tackle the elusive unknown/unknowns in their system logs. In just a minute or two, this video will introduce you to the basic strategies and tools that Elastic provides to enhance your site reliability through smarter data insights. Perfect for professionals looking to quick-start their monitoring capabilities without getting overwhelmed. Dive in and discover how to transform your logs into actionable insights!

Custom Alerts, SLOs, and Anomaly Detection with Elastic Observability

In this overview, we'll introduce you to the key features of Elastic Observability, focusing on custom alerts, service level objectives (SLOs), and anomaly detection. Whether you're managing infrastructure, ensuring service reliability, or overseeing software performance, these tools are essential for maintaining system health and efficiency. This video provides a quick glimpse into how Elastic Observability can streamline your monitoring tasks and alert you to issues before they impact your services. Perfect for those looking to enhance their observability strategy.

Kubernetes Logging | Set Up K8s Log Monitoring with OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes is a powerful orchestration tool for managing containers, but it comes with its own set of challenges. One of the biggest hurdles is effectively logging what's happening in your system. As your applications grow and spread across clusters, keeping track of their behavior becomes crucial. In this article, we will discuss logging in Kubernetes, common Kubernetes log types, and how logs can be effectively tracked and managed.

The Journey to 100x-ing Control Plane Scale for Cribl Edge

At Cribl, we value the simplest and quickest path to shipping new things. This is especially true with shipping new products. We took this approach with Cribl Edge, so we could get it into the hands of existing and potential customers as soon as possible to learn more about their needs and requirements. In order to ship a high-quality Edge product quickly, we based all of the systems for management and data streaming directly on the existing, battle-tested systems we built for Stream.

Elastic's RAG-based AI Assistant: Analyze application issues with LLMs and private GitHub issues

As an SRE, analyzing applications is more complex than ever. Not only do you have to ensure the application is running optimally to ensure great customer experiences, but you must also understand the inner workings in some cases to help troubleshoot. Analyzing issues in a production-based service is a team sport. It takes the SRE, DevOps, development, and support to get to the root cause and potentially remediate. If it's impacting, then it's even worse because there is a race against time.

What's New With Mezmo: In-stream Alerting

Here at Mezmo, we see the purpose of a telemetry pipeline is to help ingest, profile, transform, and route data to control costs and drive actionability. There are many ways to do that as we’ve previously discussed in our blogs, but today I’m going to talk about real-time alerting on data in motion, yes - on streaming data, before it reaches its destination.

Monitoring vs Observability

Before we start, I have a confession: I absolutely love Digg (people are still Digging things, right?) errr...Reddit. It actually is my front page to the internet, where I research upgrades for my home lab/VR/other niche hobbies, watch silly videos, ingest low-effort memes, judge if people are ‘AHs’ or not on /r/amitheasshole, and occasionally talk trash to other Redditors about my Michigan-based sports teams.

Kubectl Logs Tail | How to Tail Kubernetes Logs

The kubectl logs tail command is a tool that allows users to stream the logs of a pod in real-time while using Kubernetes. This command is particularly useful for debugging and monitoring applications, as it enables users to view log output as it is generated and quickly identify any issues or problems with their application. In this article, we will see how to use the kubectl logs tail command to stream logs, the benefits of using the command, and an advanced tool for streaming logs.

Scaling in the Cloud with Cribl's Universal Receiver

Scaling cloud services is a critical task for Site Reliability Engineers, and it’s a challenging one. As organizations grow, the amount of data and the number of users of it grow like crazy, pushing traditional data management methods to their limits. SREs not only have to keep everything running, they’ve got to make sure it runs smoothly, efficiently, and swiftly.

A New Era of Cloud Security with Cribl and Wiz

Cribl is an integrations company at heart. We want to help every company develop a data strategy that gives them more control, improves security, and provides flexibility to adapt to their ever-changing data needs. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we are a Certified Wiz Integration (WIN) Partner to help customers take their cloud security game to the next level.

Does Your Observability Practice Lack Maturity? Here's What to Do.

Observability isn’t new. But organizations are struggling to adopt mature observability practices, and the impact on business is palpable. Organizations are seeing the value of observability for their applications and infrastructure—the results of our 2024 Observability Pulse survey of 500 global IT professionals reflects that across the board.

Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry Distribution for Node.js

We are delighted to announce the alpha release of the Elastic OpenTelemetry Distribution for Node.js. This distribution is a light wrapper around the OpenTelemetry Node.js SDK that makes it easier to get started using OpenTelemetry to observe your Node.js applications.

Deploying The ELK Stack on Kubernetes

The ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) stack’s main objective is to aggregate logs, but the vastly popular open-source project has numerous uses alongside aggregating logs. ELK can easily integrate with Kubernetes and is a common solution that enables users to gather, store, and examine Kubernetes telemetry data. However, with the continual rise of micro-service architecture, users are searching for an improved method of aggregating and searching through logs for debugging purposes.

Square Pegs, Round Holes: The Challenge of Integrating MELT Data into Traditional Data Warehouses

This is the first in a series of blog posts about the disconnect between modern IT and security teams and the vendors they’re forced to work with. If you’re looking for the second and third posts, you can find them here and here. Imagine this scenario: You’re grappling with the ever-escalating costs of your legacy solutions. What’s the logical next step? For many, it’s exploring the new wave of tools emerging, such as data warehouses.

Cribl Collaborates with Microsoft: Empowering Enterprises to Strengthen their Security Operations

As the cybersecurity landscape becomes more and more complex. It seems like we hear about a major breach of a different company every day. Enterprises are looking for robust solutions to help them manage the surge in data and security incidents. That’s why our recent collaboration announcement with Microsoft means so much to us. It’s not just a piece of paper; it’s a testament to our dedication to providing customers with the best tools and solutions for the job.

Database Monitoring: troubleshooting from the bottom up

A healthy relationship between services and databases is fundamental to overall application performance. Unchecked database issues can compromise application efficiency, user experience, and ultimately, your organization’s bottom line. To steer clear of these consequences, monitoring your databases should be a key component of your observability—and with the launch of Coralogix Database Monitoring, it can be.

Managing High Volume with OpenTelemetry

As your systems grow, so do the challenges of managing high-volume telemetry data. From horizontal scalability strategies to efficient data aggregation and storage techniques, we'll cover everything you need to know to keep pace with your expanding infrastructure. Don't let scalability constraints hinder your observability efforts—learn how OpenTelemetry can empower you to manage high volumes of telemetry data effectively and efficiently.

SolarWinds Observability simplifies searching live event messages and log archives

New reverse tail UI, API-based searches, and copy-paste permalinks Searching event data in SolarWinds® Observability just got easier. A new reverse tail display option lets you move the log search bar and change the scroll of the events from bottom to top. For SolarWinds Papertrail™ fans, moving the search bar and changing the scroll will make you feel right at home. To access this customization feature, select display options and toggle the reverse tail option.

The benefits of utilizing locally hosted models with Elastic AI Assistant

A way for public sector organizations to leverage generative AI today to solve security challenges With its ability to sift through large amounts of data to find unusual patterns, generative AI now plays a key role in helping teams protect their organizations from cyber threats. It also helps security professionals by augmenting their skills and bridging gaps in their knowledge.

Getting started with the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and Amazon Bedrock

Elastic recently released version 8.13, which includes the general availability of Amazon Bedrock integration for the Elastic AI Assistant for Observability. This blog post will walk through the step-by-step process of setting up the Elastic AI Assistant with Amazon Bedrock.

What Is Log Monitoring? It's Importance, Key Components and Open-Source Options

In its simplest terms, log monitoring is the process of systematically collecting, storing, analyzing, and alerting on log data generated by various systems, applications, and devices within a DevOps environment. Logs are essentially records of events, transactions, and activities that occur within these systems. They can contain valuable information about system errors, performance metrics, user activities, and security events.

The Art of Visibility: Constructing an OpenTelemetry Observability Pipeline

Craft an observability pipeline that offers unparalleled insights into your systems and applications. Watch as we explore the art of constructing an OpenTelemetry observability pipeline, from instrumenting your codebase to effectively analyzing and visualizing telemetry data. Whether you're aiming to enhance troubleshooting, optimize performance, or gain a deeper understanding of your environment, this video series will equip you with the knowledge and tools to elevate your observability game.

The Leading Redis Monitoring Tools

Redis, which stands for remote dictionary server, is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that is commonly used as a database, cache, and message broker. Utilizing Redis provides numerous benefits for your team and organization, which have helped drive the tool's increase in popularity. A key example of this is speed, Redis works primarily in memory, making it particularly fast for data operations.

The OpenTelemetry Collector: A Deep Dive

Delve into the intricate workings of the OpenTelemetry Collector in this comprehensive webinar. Watch as we explore advanced features, optimization techniques, and best practices for maximizing the efficiency of your telemetry data collection. Whether you're a seasoned user or just getting started, this deep dive promises to unlock invaluable insights into harnessing the full potential of the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Building a Custom OTel Collector: A Step by Step Guide

Ready to tailor your telemetry data collection to fit your exact needs? Watch as we go step-by-step through constructing a custom OpenTelemetry Collector. From defining requirements to implementing custom processors and exporters, leave this feeling empowered to create a collector perfectly aligned with your infrastructure and observability goals.

The Best ELK Training Courses

The ELK Stack combines three tools, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana into a complete solution that numerous organizations and teams utilize. Mastering a new tool or process can be challenging enough but learning three at once, including how these three tools interact with each other, is particularly difficult. However, to ease the learning process, there are numerous training courses and certifications for the ELK stack to help you deeply grasp how it operates and how it can be best utilized.

Identity Governance in Cribl.Cloud

This blog post explores Cribl.Cloud‘s approach to Identity Governance (IG), a crucial strategy for securing access to critical systems and data. Learn how Cribl.Cloud leverages IG to ensure security, compliance, efficiency, and customer trust, while also tackling the challenges of managing custom SaaS APIs within an IG framework.

When Your Open Source Turns to the Dark Side

Not that long ago, in a galaxy that isn’t remotely far away, a disturbance in the open source world was felt with wide-ranging reverberations. Imagine waking up one morning to find out that your beloved open source tool, which lies at the heart of your system, is being relicensed. What does it mean? Can you still use it as before? Could the new license be infectious and require you to open source your own business logic? This doom’s day nightmare scenario isn’t hypothetical.

Pipeline Talk: Between Two Fernders Edition

Cribl’s co-founders, Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka, recently took time to host a Between two Fernders edition of Pipeline Talk at the Cribl offices to discuss a wide variety of topics, including Cribl Lake, the N-Gage, WWE aspirations, fishing poles, how CAT6 cabling is not named after actual cats, and wondering if Apple’s iPhone will be a consumer hit (Yes, we know what year it is, but the host clearly doesn’t).

Elastic Observability on Google Cloud - Access insights in real-time with AI

With the power of Elastic on Google Cloud, you can bring your logs, metrics, traces, and profiling together at scale for unified visibility and AI-powered insights across your entire ecosystem. Discover how organizations of all sizes unify and visualize all their data in one place using the combined innovation of Elastic and Google Cloud.

Sentry vs Coralogix: Comparison of RUM capabilities, pricing & more

As Coralogix is a full-stack observability platform with log analytics, RUM, APM, SIEM and more, it’s hard to really compare it to Sentry’s very limited offering of error tracking and some other real user monitoring functionality. Sentry is also insanely expensive in comparison to Coralogix. Nonetheless, we shall attempt to assess how Sentry’s RUM offering stacks up.

The Best 15 Interactive Dashboard Examples

Your organization, irrespective of its size, is likely creating a substantial amount of data, and deriving value and insights from this data is vital. This is where dashboards can assist you. With reporting dashboards, you can cut through the noise, and select the metrics that are pivotal to your team to begin visualizing them and the trend of these metrics through continuous monitoring, enabling your team to acquire actionable insights.

Data Storage Costs Keeping You Up at Night? Meet Archived Metrics

We all have been there! Getting the largest metrics plan available, turning on real-time monitoring, and…. You know what happens next… BIG BILL! With the explosion of telemetry from microservices, containers, and cloud stacks, engineering teams often have to choose between data and budget. To help our Splunk champions, we are introducing Archive Metrics to make storing data up to ten times cheaper.