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Imagine you’re a product manager at a B2B SaaS company. Monday morning, a frustrated client floods your inbox—their workflows were disrupted by a slowdown you could’ve caught sooner with better user insights. Now, imagine running an e-commerce store on Cyber Monday. Traffic surges, but abandoned carts spike. Your RUM dashboard reveals slow mobile checkouts. A quick fix saves thousands in sales.

Hybrid cloud services have become a cornerstone for many businesses. These technologies, which combine the strengths of private and public clouds, assist enterprises in achieving their dreams of scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, this added optimization comes at a cost, particularly with increased operational complexity and security concerns. To minimize cyber threats and secure their data, businesses must invest in more security solutions, such as log monitoring.

Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions — without managing infrastructure. Today, we are excited to announce the technical preview of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure — now available in the EastUS region. Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions without managing infrastructure.

We’re excited to announce a series of upgrades to our AI Agent, Log Management Explore UI and core integrations designed to empower you with even deeper observability and streamlined operations. These updates enhance account visibility, multi-telemetry trace insights, and logging capabilities while ensuring seamless compatibility with OpenTelemetry. Read on to discover how these enhancements can help you gain more clarity and control over your environment.

According to the 2024 Logz.io Observability Pulse Survey, 91% of respondents said they’re actively looking for ways to reduce observability costs, and 50% want better visibility into their monitoring expenses.

The demand for seamless user experiences and robust system reliability is at an all-time high, and businesses are racing to meet these expectations. But as system complexity increases, traditional monitoring tools are falling short. Observability offers a paradigm shift. It goes beyond tracking metrics and provides deep insights to understand the “why” behind system behavior by parsing and contextualizing unstructured data.

For system admins and developers, being able to track error logs in real time is crucial. It’s not just about fixing problems; it’s about keeping everything running smoothly, ensuring systems perform at their best, and catching issues before they snowball into bigger ones. This guide breaks down the tools and commands that make real-time log monitoring easier and more effective, offering more than just the basics.

Ensuring that your web applications run smoothly and securely is essential. NGINX, known for its high performance and scalability, plays a key role in delivering web content. But to keep everything running efficiently, you need to monitor and analyze its logs properly. This guide will walk you through how to configure, analyze, and make the most of NGINX logs to stay on top of your server’s health.