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In an era where networks are the arteries of every enterprise, ensuring they run smoothly is non-negotiable. From small branch offices to sprawling data centers, a single misstep in configuration can trigger costly downtime, security breaches, and compliance headaches.

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a stand-alone service that acts as a powerful, vendor-neutral pipeline for your telemetry data. It can receive, process, and export logs, metrics, and traces, giving you full control over your observability data before it reaches a backend. This guide will provide a comprehensive overview of the OpenTelemetry Collector, its architecture, deployment patterns, and how to configure it for production use.

The Kubernetes platform is the standard for orchestrating containerized applications. It’s ideal for large applications running on distributed instances. However, monitoring Kubernetes infrastructure can be notoriously challenging. This guide will cover Kubernetes monitoring in more detail, including what metrics to track to improve visibility and control over your K8s containers, apps, microservices, etc.

Hi, Riley Durham here. I’m an Event Marketing Manager and Social Media Marketer at Cortex, and I’m here to share how a culture of autonomy and excellence has opened doors for career growth at Cortex. Before joining Cortex, I worked in the DevSec tool space, wearing multiple hats managing events, demand generation, social media, and direct mail marketing. That variety gave me a solid foundation in full-funnel marketing, but it was joining Cortex that really accelerated my growth trajectory.

To read more on the findings from this research, visit The Digital Sovereignty Revolution whitepaper by clicking here. For years, US tech giants have enjoyed near-unquestioned dominance over the global cloud market. However, this dominance is being challenged as trust in Big Tech begins to fracture. According to our latest whitepaper, "The Digital Sovereignty Revolution", the foundation of trust in Big Tech's infrastructure and services is cracking.

Streamline your entire loaner asset process—from easy reservations to smooth checkouts and timely returns—to prevent losses and keep your teams confidently equipped.

Learn how mid-size companies can dramatically cut cloud infrastructure costs using practical strategies like compute rightsizing, serverless, storage tiering, and automated scaling. This guide also explores how Qovery simplifies and automates cost optimization for growing teams - no full DevOps team required.

Elastic is a go-to choice for organizations that want a powerful, flexible search and analytics engine without the cost overhead of traditional SIEM platforms. With its open-source foundation and customizable architecture, the Elastic (ELK) Stack—Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana—has become a cornerstone for many modern observability and security workflows.

A lot can change in three years. The world of 2022 was a quite different place. Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving living monarch, the world population hadn’t yet cracked eight billion, and many of us were still emerging from the strangeness of the Covid years. Meanwhile, at HAProxyConf 2022, we unveiled HAProxy Fusion Control Plane for the first time.

‍ We're not witnessing the end of observability, we're witnessing its evolution into something far more powerful. The observability industry is having its Moneyball moment. Just like Billy Beane revolutionized baseball by using data analytics to compete with teams that had vastly larger budgets, observability is undergoing a fundamental transformation.