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Large organizations often rely on multiple monitoring tools, security platforms, and auditing systems to meet the diverse needs of their observability, security, engineering, and compliance teams. Because these teams may use the same logs for many different use cases—including detecting potential threats or breaches, troubleshooting errors, and gauging the effectiveness of new features—it can be difficult to effectively standardize and route data.

Whether you’re rushing to troubleshoot an incident or proactively performing a security audit, the trial-and-error process of searching through millions of logs for key information can be time-consuming and cumbersome. To help you quickly surface important details from large swaths of log data, Datadog’s Log Explorer allows you to search and filter your logs, create visualizations, as well as group your logs by fields, patterns, or transactions.

Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL is a fully managed relational database service for PostgreSQL that is powered by the open source Citus extension. With remote query execution and support for JSON-B, geospatial data, rich indexing, and high-performance scale-out, Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL enables users to build applications on single- or multi-node clusters.

With the increasing use of cloud-based applications, businesses are more reliant than ever on the Internet to deliver WAN traffic. As a result, they’re migrating from MPLS networks to hybrid WAN architectures and SD-WAN technology. Keep reading to learn how to monitor SD-WAN networks with Network Monitoring to identify issues that native SD-WAN monitoring features often miss.

Send your Aiven service metrics and logs to AWS CloudWatch with the Aiven Amazon CloudWatch integration. Find out how.

If you’re thinking about ITIL certifications for 2023, you’ll find a lot of helpful information and guidance here. ITIL certifications are globally recognized as the standard in IT Service Management (ITSM). These certifications provide individuals and organizations with a clear indication of competency and knowledge in relation to ITIL best practices. You have many ways to go about it.

For over 40 years the vast majority of UK organisations have chosen to get their IT advice and solutions from specialist IT selling organisations, collectively called resellers. The principal functions resellers provide is advice, products, and services. Today resellers are categorised into sub-groups which better define their type or focus, such as, Managed Service Providers (MSP), Value Added Reseller (VAR), Enterprise, Systems Integrator (SI) etc.

You’ve probably heard about the Internet of Things but what about the Artificial Intelligence of Things? Yes, connected things are also getting smarter and smarter. AIoT is a new field that combines AI and IoT in fascinating new use cases, some of them in automotive.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes famously said, "You see, but you do not observe." Collecting application logs exhaustively and interpreting them to support business objectives are two different things. Application logs, also called app logs, event logs, and audit trails, are automatically generated records of computational events in IT environments.

StackState’s new 4T Monitors introduce the ability to monitor IT topology as it changes over time. Now your observability processes can trigger alerts on changes in topology that don’t match an ideal state, on deviations in metrics and events and on complex combinations of parameters. Monitoring topology as part of your observability efforts enriches the concept of environment health by adding the dimension of topology.