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From Gartner IOCS 2024 Conference: AI, Observability Data, and Telemetry Pipelines

Last week, I attended one of the last conferences of the year with team Mezmo: the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, there were over 20 sessions covering observability and how it is getting increasingly critical in the new complex distributed computing environment. Of course, there were many sessions, including all keynotes that addressed the advent and impact of AI on IT operations and observability.

Overcoming Performance Issues: Real-World Solutions to Keep Your Graylog System Running Smoothly

Are you experiencing performance issues with your Graylog instance? Are late-night alerts and unexplained slowdowns keeping you up at night? You're not alone if you’re dealing with license limit violations without a clear cause. In this session, we’ll share our experiences with these common Graylog challenges and the practical solutions we’ve developed to overcome them.

New Microsoft ILogger integration with Raygun

That’s a wrap on Raygun’s 12 Days of Christmas 2024! Over the past two weeks, we’ve rolled out daily updates featuring bug fixes and feature improvements inspired by your feedback. These small but mighty changes are all about making Raygun faster, smoother, and easier to use. Thanks for helping us level up—your input makes all the difference. Our special thanks to Blair from New Zealand who suggested this great idea!

AI Log Analysis - Shaping the Future of Observability

As digital applications and infrastructures grow increasingly complex, managing and understanding log data has become increasingly vital in achieving practical observability, enabling organizations to detect, diagnose, and prevent issues across their systems. However, traditional log analysis methods often struggle with the volume and complexities of modern log data in cloud-native environments.

12 Ways We Sleighed Innovation This Year

As we wrap up an incredible year, it’s the perfect time to celebrate Cribl’s progress and innovation in 2024! This year brought many exciting features designed to solve real-world problems and make life easier for our customers. In the spirit of reflection and festivity, I’ll highlight twelve game-changing product features, releases, and enhancements— each a testament to listening, learning, and delivering value to you, our users.

Balancing Standardization & Customization: Tailoring Security Monitoring to Your Unique Environment

So you’ve gone ahead and ingested every log you can think of and built a plethora of detections in line with frameworks and best practices. You may have even dabbled into custom alerts built from your own internal assessments and findings. Or maybe it’s the opposite; you’re still early in your journey toward security maturity or logging new or custom applications without much guidance. It can be hard to feel truly comfortable with your environment’s security in both situations. Standards are good but can be too noisy and restrictive in some places and too quiet or permissive in others.

Unlocking the Power of IIS Logs: A Comprehensive Guide

IIS (Internet Information Services) is a web server developed by Microsft, shipped as a part of the Windows Server services. It’s used to host and manage web applications and services. IIS is a particularly robust web server solution that is tightly integrated with the Windows operating system, making it a natural choice for organizations that rely on other Microsoft products.

Our team's learnings from Kubecon: Use Exemplars, Configuring OTel, and OTTL cookbook

A few weeks ago, members of Mezmo were at Kubecon and attended several sessions. You can see a post with my recap and session highlights. Today, though, I’m going to discuss three sessions that my colleagues found interesting for our peers in Observability.

Make NetFlow Flow Without Breaking The Network

Ever wondered how many NetFlow exporters or edge routers you have configured on your core switches? What if I told you that every exporter uses ~0.2% bandwidth in overhead? While that may not seem like much (and it has been a few years since most network engineers were worried about CPU overhead for NetFlow exports), older hardware and network OS versions may be more sensitive to having multiple flow exporters configured.

Scaling Observability on a Budget with Cribl for State, Local, and Education

Over the past year, I’ve noticed some interesting trends in my work with state and local governments. Across my conversations with organizations in this space, there’s a common thread: teams are getting creative about maximizing their limited resources. With budgets either flat or shrinking and operational demands increasing, these teams face tough choices. They’re being asked to maintain or improve services while working with the same, or in some cases, fewer resources than before.