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Top five metrics to monitor in IIS Logs

Jun 3, 2025 By David Girvin In Sumo Logic
When managing and troubleshooting IIS (Internet Information Services) web server performance, logs are a critical resource. They capture detailed information about every request and response so your team can detect issues quickly. Let’s walk through the main IIS log formats, explore a sample log file, and break down five key types of IIS metrics you should monitor.
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Graylog vs ELK: Which Log Management Solution Fits Your Stack?

Jun 3, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Your app logs start simple—maybe a few print() or logging.info() calls. But in production, things get noisy. Thousands of log lines per minute, scattered across services, and it’s hard to know what matters. This is when tools like Graylog and the ELK stack help. They let you collect, search, and make sense of logs, but they do it in different ways. This guide breaks down how each one handles setup, scale, and day-to-day use.
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observiq

Your Collector, Your Rules: Introducing BYOC and the OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder

Jun 3, 2025 By Adnan Rahic In ObservIQ
Join the live stream at 11 am ET, here. OpenTelemetry’s super-power has always been: Choice. Yet, most observability vendors still insist you run their collector. Today we’re removing that last point of friction. With Bring Your Own Collector (BYOC), Bindplane now accepts any upstream-compatible build, recognizes exactly which receivers, processors, and exporters it contains, and adapts the UI and configuration workflow on the fly.
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Unify telemetry, own your pipeline: New integrations for Windows, Network Telemetry, and Cloud Storage

Jun 2, 2025 By Adnan Rahic In ObservIQ
Today, we're expanding on the integrations front, and launching new integrations for Windows events, network telemetry, and cloud storage. Here's a quick tour of what's new and why it matters.
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Sigma Specification 2.0: What You Need to Know

Jun 2, 2025 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Sigma rules have become the security team equivalent of LEGO bricks and systems. With LEGO, people can build whatever they can imagine by connecting different types of bricks. With Sigma Specification 2.0 rules, security teams can create vendor-agnostic detections without being limited by proprietary log formats. In response to the Sigma rules’ popularity, the team that built them updated them in August 2024, giving security teams new capabilities.
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Service Level Objectives -- Customer Brown Bag -- May 29th, 2025

Jun 2, 2025 By Sumo Logic, Inc. In Sumo Logic
This technical session on Service Level Objectives (SLOs) will cover the fundamentals of SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, along with how to define, monitor, and optimize them for system reliability. Through hands-on demonstrations, you'll learn to set up SLOs in Sumo Logic, track performance using logs, metrics, and tracing, and configure proactive alerts for incident response. By the end, you’ll have the skills to implement and manage SLOs effectively, ensuring your services meet reliability goals while balancing performance and cost.
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