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The video highlights the advantages of using OpenTelemetry Collector, emphasizing its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness.

The video discusses the advantages of using OpenTelemetry Collector over Sumo Logic's installed collectors for data collection and observability. It highlights key features and serves as a guide for organizations considering the transition to OpenTelemetry.

Kentik’s Phil Gervasi shows how modern data centers—especially those powering AI workloads—can spot and fix problems before they impact performance or budgets. See how Kentik’s Data Explorer helps you identify disruptive flows, reclaim wasted network capacity, and turn insights into real-time alerts. With monitor-only mode and integrations with systems like PagerDuty and ServiceNow, your network becomes its own early warning system—driving uptime, cost savings, and better AI performance.

Elasticsearch mappings turn logs from unstructured text into usable data. In this video, we explain what mappings are, how they define fields like text, number, and date, and why they matter. With the right mappings, Elasticsearch can filter error codes, sort by response time, and group results by browser, region, or version.

In the seventh episode of Masterclass 2025, learn the various aspects of an efficient asset management practice and map dependencies between IT infrastructure components to evaluate potential risks. We will go over how to manage hardware and software assets, discover assets using various methods, loan assets temporarily to contract employees, and auto-assign assets to users.

Connectivity powers our world, but the way it’s bought and sold is being transformed. In this episode of Uplink, Michael Reid talks with Ben Edmond, founder and CEO of Connectbase, about building a global marketplace for digital infrastructure. With 4.2 million quotes processed each month and 1.9 trillion rows of connectivity data, Connectbase is revolutionizing how providers and enterprises access real-time intelligence.

Network analysis doesn’t have to be slow or complicated. In this episode, we’ll show you how to master Flowmon Profiles so you can dramatically cut down your query time and focus on solving problems faster.

Why do ISVs choose to partner with Canonical? Canonical’s promise to deliver secure, open source software empowers Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to focus on building and improving their products every day. We help vendors meet regulatory compliance, reduce their environmental footprint through containerization, and stay ready for the future.

Outages don’t have to be part of your life and engineers don’t have to burn out being a hero. Spread out your effort and build reliability without the drama. Transcript:  You should be great at dealing with outages, but your customers don't care. There's no medals here. No one should have incentive to be paged. There's nothing good about being in a war room for 10 days or in the holiday season in 12 hour shifts around the clock just in case something happens.

What even is a trace span?