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In the world of observability, having the right amount of data is key. For years Apica has led the way, utilizing synthetic monitoring to evaluate the performance of critical transactions and customer flows, ensuring businesses have important insight and lead time regarding potential issues.

Application performance monitoring (APM) is much more than capturing and tracking errors and stack traces. Today’s cloud-based businesses deploy applications across various regions and even cloud providers. So, harnessing the power of metadata provided by the Elastic APM agents becomes more critical. Leveraging the metadata, including crucial information like cloud region, provider, and machine type, allows us to track costs across the application stack.

To maximize the performance and value of your software apps, networks and systems, it’s critical to eliminate performance bottlenecks. Performance testing has become critical in every organization to reveal and fix performance bottlenecks, ensuring the best experience to end users. This article explains what performance testing is, its importance, and the various types of performance testing.

Cloud analytics is the process of storing and analyzing data in the cloud and using it to extract actionable business insights. Simply one shade of data analytics, cloud analytics algorithms are applied to large data collections to identify patterns, predict future outcomes and produce other information useful to business decision-makers.

In today's market, companies undergoing digital transformation require secure and reliable systems to meet customer demands, handle macroeconomic uncertainty and navigate new disruptions. Digital resilience is key to providing an uninterrupted customer experience and adapting to new operating models. Companies that prioritize digital resilience can proactively prevent major issues, absorb shocks to digital systems and accelerate transformations.

In previous blogs, we explored how Elastic Observability can help you monitor various AWS services and analyze them effectively: One of the more heavily used AWS container services is Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service). While there is a trend toward using Fargate to simplify the setup and management of ECS clusters, many users still prefer using Amazon ECS with EC2 instances.

Cindy works long hours managing a SecOps team at UltraCorp, Inc. Her team’s days are spent triaging alerts, managing incidents, and protecting the company from cyberattacks. The workload is immense, and her team relies on a popular SOAR platform to automate incident response including executing case management workflows that populate cases with relevant event data and enrichment with IOCs from their TIP, as well execute a playbook to block the source of the threat at the endpoint.

If you’ve ever found yourself pondering the hidden treasures tucked away within thousands of files in Amazon S3, this is the perfect guide for you. In this blog post, we’re going to look at how you can use the Cribl Search fields feature to catalog and explore the fields in petabytes of data stored in Object Stores. In the Fields Tab within Cribl Search, all returned fields are categorized according to five different dimensions.