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Is Your Telemetry Data Strategy Ready for the Next Decade?

What worked for the last 10 years won’t work for the next 10. IT and Security teams face three big challenges with telemetry data: Volume: Telemetry data is growing at a 28% CAGR, while budgets remain flat. Compliance requirements demand retaining massive datasets, straining both storage and costs. Variety: Logs, metrics, traces, configs—telemetry data comes in all shapes and sizes, making it difficult for traditional analytics tools to handle. Your tech needs to manage this complexity seamlessly.

Best Practices for Troubleshooting a Windows Server Upgrade

To upgrade, or not to upgrade. While that may not have been the question that Hamlet asked, it’s one you might be asking. You already made the mistake of asking Reddit, “should I do an in-place upgrade,” and, as expected, people had Big Opinions. A Windows Server Feature Update offers benefits, like performance and analytics. On the other hand, if you have problems, then your attempts can lead to business downtime and service disruption.

Logrotate: Choosing Between Size-Based and Time-Based Log Rotation

Managing log files effectively is crucial for ensuring a well-performing, reliable system. Logrotate, a popular log management tool, provides a flexible way to automatically rotate, compress, and remove old logs. Among its many configurations, two common approaches to trigger log rotation are size-based and time-based rotation. In this blog, we will explore the differences between these methods, compare their use cases, and help you decide which approach (or combination) suits your needs best.

SecOps Standardization Processor

Learn how to standardize data being routed to Google SecOps About observIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.

Leveraging AWS Private Image Build for a Compliant Cribl Deployment

In today’s data-driven world, ensuring the security and compliance of your data pipelines is paramount. Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge offer powerful telemetry data management and enrichment solutions. However, deploying these tools within your environment often requires careful consideration of security and compliance standards.

The Leading Synthetic Monitoring Tools

For accurate and effective performance testing, synthetic monitoring has become a staple and this is only going to continue in the coming years. This is mainly due to the fact that this process is beneficial and offers numerous advantages to organizations. With synthetic monitoring, your organization can identify performance issues before they affect real users. By continuously simulating user interactions, your team can highlight and rectify performance bottlenecks and infrastructure issues in real time.

Grafana Loki Query Best Practices with LogQL (Loki Community Call December 2024)

In this December's Loki Community Call, Cyril Tovena, Senior Principal Engineer and LogQL guru walks us through a Grafana Loki query tutorial with LogQL, the Log Query Language used for Loki. He talks about the key "Dos and Don'ts" of LogQL, offering practical tips to help you write better queries, boost performance, and sidestep common mistakes. Whether you’re tuning up your current setup or just diving into LogQL, Cyril’s got you covered.

Splunk Platform Use Cases, Written Just for You

If you're a Splunk customer, chances are high that you use either Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud Platform on a daily basis. With powerful dashboards, scalable indexes, and data streaming, these core products give you immense data analysis powers and actionable insights. And that's something everybody wants! But you aren't everybody. You're uniquely you - a specific customer working in a specific industry with specific use cases.