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Why Is Designing an Effective Application Logging Strategy Important?

Observability is made up of metrics, logs, and traces. These pillars help us understand the behavior of applications under normal execution, which further accelerates identifying anomalies in case of application failure or deviation from normal execution. Logging is not about tracing each and every operation, it is about sensible, consistent, and machine-readable log messages that expose the application behavior.

Shipping Terraform Logs with the Logz.io Provider & API

Logz.io has deepened its partnership with Hashicorp over the last few months. Recently, we announced our integration with their service mesh, Hashicorp Consul. Simultaneously, we have worked on and completed an integration with their infrastructure orchestrator (a.k.a, infrastructure-as-code or IAC), Terraform. IACs take manual configurations and treats them as, well, code (along with procedures, build guides, run books, etc.).

How to Reduce Your AWS Costs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud computing platform, providing an array of services to manage a business’s data infrastructure to help it grow and expand. With the wide range of services provided, it has multiple options to provide you with an elastic approach to optimize your costs. However, many users struggle with controlling their expenditure due to a variety of factors. Getting a complete understanding of how to reduce your AWS operational costs may be a daunting task.

8 Service Desk Processes to Start Automating Today

Automation has evolved from being a management consultant’s go-to-advice to being a central part of every organization’s strategic plan. The biggest misconception about automation is that it is exercised in areas where the company wants to reduce human capital. Contradictorily, automation standardizes mundane processes and frees employees to focus on more value-producing activities that require their unique skills and knowledge.

Triggers in AppSignal: Already Powerful - Now Easy To Set Up

Setting up triggers within AppSignal is a powerful way to discover that the bits started hitting the fan. You can use triggers to get an alert if an error rate is higher than 1%, your server runs out of memory, or even if your hourly login drops to zero. Our latest update makes the creation of triggers much easier.

Announcing Grafana Tempo, a massively scalable distributed tracing system

Grafana Labs is proud to announce an easy-to-operate, high-scale, and cost-effective distributed tracing system: Tempo. Tempo is designed to be a robust trace id lookup store whose only dependency is object storage (GCS/S3). Join us in the Grafana Slack #tempo channel or the tempo-users google group to get involved today!

ObservabilityCON Day 1 recap: Loki 2.0 and Grafana Tempo announced, real-time observability with Redis, Grafana demos, a tester's perspective, and more

ObservabilityCON 2020 is live! Over the next few days, Grafana Labs is bringing together the Grafana community for talks dedicated to observability. Day 1 was filled with several new announcements about exciting projects and feature enhancements we’ve been working on for our customers and community. And there will be a lot more to learn about this week, like the session on Loki 2.0 on Wednesday.

Manage Splunk On-Call Using Terraform

HashiCorp’s Terraform has emerged as a powerful tool for managing infrastructure as code. Teams can fully describe an application’s infrastructure needs such as physical machines, VMs, containers and more using configuration files. This allows the application infrastructure to be version controlled, reducing human errors during deployments.

Splunk Mobile Update: MDM Support for Microsoft Intune

In May, we announced new updates across the Splunk Connected Experiences portfolio, including support for many popular mobile device management (MDM) providers. With support for MDM capabilities, our customers can securely deploy Splunk Mobile at scale. Today, we are excited to share that Splunk Mobile now supports another popular Mobile Device Management (MDM) provider: Microsoft Intune. You can manage Splunk Mobile on both iOS and Android devices through Microsoft Intune.

PA Server Monitor Basics & Getting Started Guide

PA Server Monitor is our flagship product that was designed with the end-user in mind. It is the easiest server monitoring solution to install and use. Once installed, our PA Server Monitor is designed to provide agentless server monitoring to track and monitor various server aspects. The software application includes features that allow you to customize and configure alerts via email or text messaging.