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Grafana Loki 2.7 release: TSDB index, Promtail enhancements, and more

Grafana Loki 2.7 has arrived! With it comes an experimental feature we are rather excited about: a redesigned index based off of the Prometheus TSDB index. While we are still in the early stages, this enhancement in Grafana Loki, which we previewed at ObservabilityCON 2022, creates a smaller storage footprint, better query performance, and much more that we will dive into below!

Product Spotlight: Logz.io Telemetry Collector for Fast Data Shipping

Today we’re excited to announce Logz.io Telemetry Collector – an agent that can send logs, metrics, and traces to Logz.io in a single installation as part of our Open 360™ platform. With Telemetry Collector, customers can get started monitoring their services with Logz.io faster than ever by simplifying the data collection process.

Too many tools? Best practices for planning and implementing a successful IT tool consolidation strategy

IT tool consolidation is the ongoing and combined effort of all members of an IT organization to ensure that employees (only) use IT hardware, software and services that create and demonstrate explicit value for stakeholders in the business. The best metaphor for tool consolidation is in my kitchen, where common sense principles around value creation provide useful guidelines for any consolidation process.

Alerts in Sematext | Sematext Cloud Guide

Alerts are one of the most necessary features in any monitoring tool. Sematext Cloud comes with a whole host of alerts to keep you informed and updated on your system's performance. Sematext Comes with alert presets for 100+ integrations, so you can spend less time creating alerts and more time on what matters. Send Notifications and Alerts for yourself and the whole team via Slack, OpsGenie, paper duty, and many more. Monitor multiple distributed systems from a single UI.

Search Observability Data In-Place: Store Where You Want, Query When You Want

When we created Cribl Search, we wanted to give systems administrators the ability to query data without having to spend resources on collection and processing first — but we didn’t stop there. With Search, we’re also making it possible to query all the data you’ve already collected, processed, and kept in places like object stores, file systems, analytics tools, S3 buckets, or other data stores.

Logz.io's New Features: Easier, Faster, and More Cost-Efficient Observability

Our product strategy this year was relatively simple. Many observability practitioners we spoke with complained that observability was oftentimes slow, heavy, complex, and costly – which can be summed up in our CEO’s recent blog on modern observability challenges. While our customers didn’t report similar challenges, we wanted to further distance ourselves from this typical observability experience.

Getting started with unified observability for AWS in less than 10 minutes using terraform

This video provides a step by step guide on how to observe AWS environments. This will only take about 10 min of working time for you to get a fully configured Elastic Cluster that is actively collecting the data of your AWS environment.

When Stream Meets Lake: Cribl Integrates With New Amazon Security Lake to Help Customers Address Data Interoperability

We’re excited to announce that Cribl integrates with Amazon Security Lake. Amazon Security Lake allows customers to build a security data lake from integrated cloud and on-premises data sources as well as from their private applications using the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OSCF).