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Going Beyond CloudWatch: 5 Steps to Better Log Analytics & Analysis

Amazon CloudWatch is a great tool for DevOps engineers, developers, SREs, and other IT personnel who require basic Amazon Web Services (AWS) log processing and analytics for cloud services and applications deployed on AWS. However, most developer teams will ultimately need more logging functionality than a basic AWS log analyzer like Amazon Cloudwatch can provide. For example: That's why, although CloudWatch may be one tool in your log analytics strategy, it probably should not be the only one.

Real World Journey's with Graylog

Join an engaging panel discussion featuring Graylog customers as they share their experiences and lessons learned on their journey with Graylog. Moderated by Mark Brooks, Graylog's Customer Success Officer, the panel will explore diverse use cases, the process of evaluating SIEM solutions, managing complex environments, and the unique advantages of leveraging open-source technology. Gain valuable insights from real-world implementations and discover how these organizations optimized their security operations using Graylog.

Managing Splunk Add-Ons with UCC Framework

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.

Stream AWS metrics to Elastic using Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams

In today’s data-driven world, organizations need to harness the power of real-time monitoring and analysis. Amazon CloudWatch native monitoring service provides a robust platform for tracking metrics, logs, and events from various Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. However, when you need to extend your monitoring and analytics beyond CloudWatch, integrating CloudWatch with Elastic can be a game-changer.

Control and predict costs with Scan Budgets

Managing costs without sacrificing insights is essential for today’s data-driven teams. With Sumo Logic’s Scan Budgets, your organization can better control and predict costs by setting budget boundaries that align with the value of your insights. Get visibility into which queries and dashboards deliver the greatest impact for your business, so you can invest in the insights that matter most while also managing costs when setting up new searches or monitors.

Ingesting JSON Logs From Containers With the OpenTelemetry Collector

It’s very popular to push logs, in a formatted way, to the console output of an application (sometimes referred to as stdout). Although using a push-based approach like OTLP over gRPC/HTTP is preferred and has more benefits, there are many legacy systems that still use this approach. These systems typically use a JSON output for their logs. So, how do we get these JSON logs into a backend analysis system like Honeycomb that primarily accepts OTLP data?

From App Search to Elasticsearch - Tap into the future of search

App Search will be discontinued in 9.0 versions, but Elasticsearch has everything you need to build powerful AI-powered search experiences. Here’s what you need to know. Recent advancements in generative AI are transforming user behavior, inspiring developers to create search experiences that are more dynamic, intuitive, and engaging.

The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Logging

Cloud logging continues to grow in popularity and usage as more organizations transition to storing data in the cloud rather than on-premise storage. This is fueled, in part, due to the numerous advantages that can be gained from cloud logging. For example, cloud logging solutions can scale to increasing data volumes with ease as an organization grows.

Resilience Talks with Somerford: The State of Observability 2024

In 2024, simply having an observability practice is a given. Organisations with leading programs create incredible digital experiences, innovate faster and drive resilience. Our latest research reveals that observability leaders deliver more productivity and value than their peers — achieving a 2.67x annual return on their observability solutions.

Webinar Recap: 2024 DORA Report: Accelerate State of DevOps

I had a fantastic opportunity to sit with Ben Good of Google and Rich Prillinger of Mezmo and participate in the discussion about the new DORA 2024 report. The 10th edition of the DORA report covers the impact of AI on software development, explores platform engineering’s promises and challenges, and emphasizes developer experience and stable priorities for success.

Cribl and CrowdStrike Partner to Transform Data Management for SIEM Solutions

Cybersecurity is moving fast, and if your security data management strategy can’t keep up with your growth, you’re already behind. Security operations centers (SOCs) today face mountains of data spread across countless tools and platforms. Combine that with evolving cyber threats, and you have an environment that demands a smarter approach to SIEM data management.

DORA Report Webinar: 2024 Accelerate State of DevOps

Watch our discussion on the 2024 DORA Accelerate State of DevOps report, where we dive into insights impacting software delivery, organizational strategy, and AI adoption in DevOps. We’ll review key findings and highlight practical steps for leaders to optimize development and delivery performance. Whether your organization is embracing AI, building internal platforms, or addressing burnout and resilience, this webinar will provide actionable takeaways for adapting to today’s evolving DevOps landscape.

Transform Troubleshooting with Logz.io's AI Agent

As Gartner predicts, AI will support up to 70% of performance monitoring and troubleshooting tasks in the next few years. The Logz.io AI Agent helps teams get ahead of this curve today. Too much time spent troubleshooting? You’re not alone. Manual investigation, jumping between dashboards, and piecing together scattered data are time-consuming and frustrating.

Elevating Security Posture to Maximize Threat Response - Customer Brown Bag - November 21st, 2024

Join us as Marvin, a Technical Account Engineer at Sumo Logic, addresses the following customer questions on how to elevate their security posture and maximize threat response: How can we mature our Sumo Logic SIEM? How can we identify if we have gaps in logs or detections? How can we create or identify custom rules for use cases that are critical to us and that we want to monitor closely?

Grafana Loki 3.3 release: faster query results via Blooms for structured metadata

The Grafana Loki 3.3 release is here, and it brings a fresh wave of enhancements aimed at making your log management experience faster, more efficient, and more scalable. While this update includes the usual round of bug fixes and operational improvements, the standout feature is a shift in how Loki leverages Bloom filters—going from free-text search to harnessing the power of structured metadata.

Leveling up your observability practice - Part 2

Lessons from the front lines: Challenges in your observability maturity journey In our previous blog, we explored the observability maturity spectrum — revealing that while only 7% of organizations consider themselves experts, the majority (43%) are actively working to improve their practices. We saw how mature organizations achieve better outcomes, from faster root cause analysis to reduced user-reported incidents.

Agentic RAG on Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and Elasticsearch Vector Database

We are excited to collaborate with Dell on the white paper,Agentic RAG on Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. The white paper is a design reference document for developers outlining strategies and solution components to implement agentic retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications. It’s a design point for organizations across industries, specifically healthcare, for the agentic RAG framework decision-making with AI-driven data retrieval.

Adding AI to Observability 2.0 for Dynamic Observability

The original premise of observability was to ensure system health, identify issues, and resolve those issues efficiently. As I recently outlined, the legacy approach (sometimes called Observability 1.0 now) relied heavily on metrics and tracing because logs were seen as too noisy or challenging. But, as most forward thinkers have identified now, logs are exactly the telemetry type that we need the most.

Are you ready for the next outage? How a to prepare for any crisis

We live in an “always on” world, so unplanned outages are more than just inconvenient. They can result in lost revenue, damaged reputations, and, more importantly, frustrated customers. While preventing outages is impossible, the most resilient teams must be prepared with a solid plan, a “technical go bag,” so to speak: a collection of tools, plans, and resources ready to activate at the first sign of trouble.

Future-proofing operations with generative AI

NOBODY PANIC! The Elastic AI assistant’s got you! Transform problem identification and resolution, and eliminate manual data chasing across silos with an interactive assistant that delivers context-aware information for SREs. Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

Collecting Windows telemetry with Elastic: An introduction to the ETW Filebeat input

In the world of security, being able to use system telemetry of Windows hosts opens new possibilities for monitoring, troubleshooting, and securing IT environments. Recognizing this, Elastic has introduced new capabilities focused on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) — a powerful Windows-native mechanism for capturing a vast array of system and application events. With these new additions, Elastic users can capture, analyze, and visualize Windows telemetry using the Elastic Search AI Platform.

Leveling up your observability practice - Part 1

Lessons from the front lines: Moving to observability maturity What separates the observability experts from the novices? It's a question that's been on my mind lately, especially after diving into our recent 2024 State of Observability Survey of over 500 practitioners. In my past roles as a DevOps engineer and a site reliability engineer (SRE), I've seen firsthand how a mature observability practice can be the difference between sleepless nights and smooth sailing.

Mastering Tail Sampling for OpenTelemetry: Cost-Effective Strategies with Cribl

Recently, I have seen a trend of enterprises moving toward OpenTelemetry (OTel) for application tracing. Tail sampling, in particular, has emerged as a preferred approach to gain actionable insights while balancing data volume and cost. OpenTelemetry offers developers and practitioners the ability to instrument their code with open-source tools, moving away from vendor-provided tools for application instrumentation.

Splunk's Path Towards Achieving FedRAMP Moderate Authorization for Splunk Observability

Splunk continues to partner with government agencies on their digital transformation journeys to help deliver their missions and provide faster and more intelligent services. We are committed to the success and support of the security requirements of our public sector customers, and I am thrilled to share the latest strategic investments Splunk is making to expand our FedRAMP program to include Splunk Observability Cloud for government customers.

Rethinking Security: Why Organizations are Flocking to Microsoft Sentinel

We’ve been steadily building strong momentum with Microsoft over the past year, and the latest step forward is a significant one: Cribl solutions are now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. But why this focus on Microsoft Azure? The answer lies in what customers are prioritizing and discussing with us.

Understanding Ubuntu Logs

Linux, Debian, and Ubuntu are the Kirk, Spock, and McCoy of modern application development. The Captain Kirk, Linux, is the open-source central code for directing and talking to hardware. Debian sits as the trio’s Spock, the original distro that can be seen as more complex to install and use. As a Debian child distro, Ubuntu is the McCoy, helping to heal the challenges that people have when trying to use Debian.

The new era of observability - why logs are the key to success

The promise of observability has always been clear: ensure system health, quickly identify and resolve issues efficiently. However, traditional observability, broken into metrics, logs, and traces, is cumbersome and fragmented, leading to higher costs and developer burnout.

Safeguarding your future: budget planning for cybersecurity resilience

With remote and hybrid working environments as the norm, organizations need to embrace a modern security paradigm across cross-functional teams. While the primary goal is to deliver confidence, visibility, and robust protection to safeguard their future, balancing the digital transformation journey with budgets can be particularly challenging. Going into budget planning season, these are the challenges to keep top of mind. You can even allocate a line item as you defend your budget and your systems.

Rich Logs Collector for Docker Compose Services with SigNoz

Our production services run on a Linux machine using Docker Compose, keeping our infrastructure simple and manageable. Docker Compose allows us to easily define and manage multi-container applications, providing a straightforward way to orchestrate services, which helps reduce complexity in our infrastructure. Recently, we decided to switch to SigNoz to gain more flexibility and control over our observability stack. Following the SigNoz setup guide, we used logspout to collect and forward logs.

Maximizing Financial Efficiency for MSSPs with Cribl: Reducing Egress Costs

In previous discussions about Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), I’ve looked into the architectural benefits and product-level advantages of integrating Cribl. Today, let’s explore why Cribl isn’t just technically sound—it’s also a smart business decision that can help MSSPs like you manage and lower egress costs, creating a significant impact on the financial efficiency of your operations.

Elasticsearch achieves Certified Software Solution status for Microsoft Azure

As a trusted partner in the Microsoft ecosystem, Elasticsearch has achieved another significant milestone by becoming a Certified Software Solution for Microsoft Azure. This certification not only underscores our commitment to excellence but also reflects our dedication to delivering seamless data solutions for our customers.

Understanding Business Analytics

Business operations are now almost completely digitalized, this means with the appropriate tools timely data and reporting of key performance indicators can be utilized to assist in driving accurate business decision-making. With these tools, organizations can begin monitoring and analyzing extensive amounts of data that offer significant advantages to them.

Elastic and Red Hat: Accelerating public sector AI and machine learning initiatives

As public sector organizations adapt to the exponential growth of data, there is a pressing need for powerful, adaptable solutions to manage and process large, complex data sets. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become essential tools with the potential to transform data into actionable intelligence for government agencies. However, deploying these advanced solutions requires a robust infrastructure capable of handling the demands of data processing, storage, and analysis.

Manage Your Pino Logs with AppSignal

We're excited to announce that AppSignal now supports Pino logs, making managing and monitoring your logging data easier than ever. By sending Pino logs directly to AppSignal, you can consolidate all your data in one place, giving you a clear overview of your app's performance for faster troubleshooting. Importantly, AppSignal now also works with Fastify 5, making it a great choice for Fastify developers looking for an APM that integrates seamlessly with their stack.

Extended protections for cloud using CNCF open source security tools

In today's rapidly evolving cloud landscape, robust security measures are more critical than ever. At Elastic Security, we're excited to introduce our extended protections for cloud — a key component of our cloud detection and response (CDR) use case. This initiative seamlessly integrates open source security tools from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem with Elastic Security's powerful analytics platform.

The Top 10 Prometheus Alternatives

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring solution, it offers efficient, scalable, and flexible monitoring practices and has emerged as a trusted tool for organizations seeking insights into their systems. It’s written in Go, gathers metrics data, and stores it in a time series database. Also, Prometheus employs a robust query language, PromQL, to manipulate and analyze collected time series data, offering versatile monitoring capabilities for various systems and services.

AWS re:Invent 2024: Discover the latest & greatest from Coralogix

As we gear up for AWS re:Invent this December, we’re excited to share some of the latest innovations that make our platform stand out. Coralogix continues to evolve with powerful new capabilities designed to simplify observability, improve performance monitoring, and deliver actionable insights across your systems. From advanced visualization tools to AI-powered troubleshooting, these updates reflect our commitment to empowering teams with smarter, faster ways to solve complex challenges.

Drain the Data Swamp! Tagging your Data in a Data Lake to help Organize and Optimize Search

Sending events into a data lake can make it challenging to find and organize them. Using tagging with Cribl Lake in conjunction with Cribl Search across a primary data source will increase speed of analysis and reduce costs, as well as help keep your data organized. This scenario involves us performing an investigation for an incident that occurred where our systems indicated unusual activity from an IP address of aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd.

The Ultimate Guide to AWS Logging: Tools, Types, and Techniques

AWS logs are fundamental for organizations to conduct performance analysis, troubleshooting, security monitoring, and adhere to compliance requirements. But if you’re using more than one AWS service you can quickly realize that your logs are expanding out of control across decentralized locations. Therefore it’s crucial that you can process and analyze all your AWS logs within a single centralized repository.

An Engineer's Guide to Making Sense of Log Data

In the webinar, the experts explained why a log management strategy is crucial if you want to accurately assess the health and compliance of your applications. Topics include: Cloud native technologies have made it harder to understand how systems are behaving. Logs are the answer, but they can be voluminous and complex in any environment. How do you make sense of them?

VictoriaMetrics Efficiently Simplifies Log Complexity with VictoriaLogs

Salt Lake City, Utah, 13th November 2024 – Today we’re delighted to announce the GA release of our innovative logging solution - VictoriaLogs. Our easy-to-use, open source log management solution combines a powerful query language for easy log searching with minimal resource requirements. It’s perfect for managing and analyzing large volumes of log data, especially in containerised environments such as Kubernetes.

Key Takeaways from the 2024 DORA Report

Google recently released its 2024 Cloud DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) report, bringing together a decade’s worth of trends, insights, and best practices on what drives high performance in software delivery across industries of all sizes. This year’s findings take a closer look at how DevOps teams can achieve greater resilience and efficiency by adopting AI, improving team well-being, and building powerful internal platforms. ‍

Stop Guessing, Start Knowing: The Power of Integrated Logging and APM

‍ Let’s talk about something we’ve all experienced: a customer reports that their checkout process is “sometimes slow,” – or maybe you noticed an unexpected spike in response times. So, you dive into the logs, grep through thousands of lines, and try to match timestamps with your APM traces. Sound familiar? At Scout, we’ve seen countless engineering teams struggle with this disconnect between their logging and APM tools.

Elastic Observability 8.16: Enhanced OpenTelemetry support, advanced log analytics, and streamlined onboarding

Elastic Observability 8.16 announces several key capabilities: Elastic Observability 8.16 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release. You can also download the Elastic Stack and our cloud orchestration products — Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes — for a self-managed experience. What else is new in Elastic 8.16?

Elastic's redesigned navigation menu

A deeper look into our new, simplified navigation menu for Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments In recent years, the Elastic platform steadily expanded its features and capabilities to address complex and evolving customer needs. As a result, the left navigation became a vast array of over 100 menu items. While our customers deeply value this extensible toolset on a unified platform, daily users need a simple interface for quick access to commonly used tools.

Why should you care about architectural differentiators?

When discussing what makes a product different, what makes it unique, we are led down the path of feature comparison. It is a natural thing to break down a product into its component parts to ease the process of weighing and measuring each layer. Does the authentication layer support SAML? Can platform components be defined in code? Beneath each of these features, however, is a foundational strata. A golden thread that enables and constrains each and every piece.

Enhancing Data Flexibility in Microsoft Sentinel with Cribl

At Cribl, we’ve been deeply investing in the Microsft Azure security space. Last year, we introduced a native integration with Microsoft Sentinel, enabling us to write data seamlessly to native and custom tables. As highlighted earlier, working with Microsoft Sentinel and Log Analytics involves interacting with tables with predefined column names and data types.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is coming - are you ready?

As the official implementation date approaches for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) – financial institutions and their information and communication technology (ICT) service providers, across the European Union are gearing up for a significant shift in their operational landscape.

Observability 2.0: Don't repeat sins of the past

If you are moving in the observability circles, chances are that you have heard the phrase “Observability 2.0,” which refers to how we need a new approach to observability. I am incredibly excited about the energy and discussion around a shift to “Observability 2.0,” as we now have a second chance to develop observability the way it was originally envisioned.

A Taste of Observability - Embrace the Cloud With OpenTelemetry

Join Splunk Observability expert Kirk O'Quinn and Monster CICD Lead Graham Bucknell for a conversation on OpenTelemetry (OTel), a powerful open-source project that is transforming how we monitor and trace applications. In this informative session, we will delve into the world of Otel, exploring its history, its roadmap and we will discuss lessons, and success/failures of “Companies” journey to OpenTelemetry.

Deploying the Loki Helm on AWS | Grafana

One of our most requested Loki tutorials is here! Deploying the Loki Helm on AWS . In this video, we’ll walk you through the entire process of deploying the Loki Helm on AWS; from creating a Kubernetes cluster to configuring essential AWS resources to learning best practices when creating your Helm values file. If you are struggling with your first production deployment this should get you up and running so you can store your logs.

Tracing the Line: Understanding Logs vs. Traces

In the software space, we spend a lot of time defining the terminology that describes our roles, implementations, and ways of working. These terms help us share fundamental concepts that improve our software and let us better manage our software solutions. To optimize your software solutions and help you implement system observability, this blog post will share the key differences between logs vs traces.

Latest Product Updates and Features in Logz.io | November 2024

We’ve improved the filter pane to include: Additionally, a new time-picker option lets you mix absolute and relative times and manually set the date and time to the second. Additionally, you can view your data in either UTC or your local time zone. Saved searches from Explore can now be used to create visualizations and dashboards in OpenSearch Dashboards, streamlining data analysis.

Enhance user insights with Custom Measurements & Timing

When we talk about Real User Monitoring (RUM), it’s easy to get wrapped up in metrics—the hard numbers that tell us about our users’ experiences. But RUM is more than just data; it’s the foundation for improving performance, an essential key to user experience. The big question is: how do you accurately measure that experience across different kinds of applications?

Webinar Recap | Telemetry Data Management: Tales from the Trenches

Managing telemetry data effectively is a serious challenge for today’s engineering teams. In our webinar, Telemetry Data Management: Tales from the Trenches, experts from Mezmo and DZone shared practical strategies for building robust telemetry pipelines that both streamline operations and turn raw data into a strategic asset.

Cribl Copilot Leverages Our Docs to Get You Answers Faster Than Ever Before!

Cribl employees are renowned for their insatiable curiosity, especially when it comes to their passions. Having been a technical writer for most of my adult life, this goat is deeply passionate about two things: writing engaging content and understanding the mindset of our users. As one of our founders always says, “Software is a people business.” To make my users successful, I need to know how they think. But what if the “user” is a machine? This goat is intrigued.

Understanding IoT Logging Formats in Azure and AWS

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are everywhere you look. From the smartwatch on your wrist to the security cameras protecting your offices, connected IoT devices transmit all kinds of data. However, these compact devices are different from the other technologies your organization uses. Unlike traditional devices, IoT devices lack a standardized set of security capabilities, making them easier for attackers to exploit.

Best MySQL Monitoring Tools

Database monitoring is crucial for numerous reasons, an example being that monitoring database performance metrics such as query execution times, throughput, and resource utilization helps highlight performance bottlenecks. By conducting this, administrators can enhance database configurations, queries, and indexing by examining these metrics to optimize overall performance.