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The OpenTelemetry Collector: A Deep Dive

Delve into the intricate workings of the OpenTelemetry Collector in this comprehensive webinar. Watch as we explore advanced features, optimization techniques, and best practices for maximizing the efficiency of your telemetry data collection. Whether you're a seasoned user or just getting started, this deep dive promises to unlock invaluable insights into harnessing the full potential of the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Building a Custom OTel Collector: A Step by Step Guide

Ready to tailor your telemetry data collection to fit your exact needs? Watch as we go step-by-step through constructing a custom OpenTelemetry Collector. From defining requirements to implementing custom processors and exporters, leave this feeling empowered to create a collector perfectly aligned with your infrastructure and observability goals.

SolarWinds Observability simplifies searching live event messages and log archives

New reverse tail UI, API-based searches, and copy-paste permalinks Searching event data in SolarWinds® Observability just got easier. A new reverse tail display option lets you move the log search bar and change the scroll of the events from bottom to top. For SolarWinds Papertrail™ fans, moving the search bar and changing the scroll will make you feel right at home. To access this customization feature, select display options and toggle the reverse tail option.

The benefits of utilizing locally hosted models with Elastic AI Assistant

A way for public sector organizations to leverage generative AI today to solve security challenges With its ability to sift through large amounts of data to find unusual patterns, generative AI now plays a key role in helping teams protect their organizations from cyber threats. It also helps security professionals by augmenting their skills and bridging gaps in their knowledge.

The Best ELK Training Courses

The ELK Stack combines three tools, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana into a complete solution that numerous organizations and teams utilize. Mastering a new tool or process can be challenging enough but learning three at once, including how these three tools interact with each other, is particularly difficult. However, to ease the learning process, there are numerous training courses and certifications for the ELK stack to help you deeply grasp how it operates and how it can be best utilized.

Identity Governance in Cribl.Cloud

This blog post explores Cribl.Cloud‘s approach to Identity Governance (IG), a crucial strategy for securing access to critical systems and data. Learn how Cribl.Cloud leverages IG to ensure security, compliance, efficiency, and customer trust, while also tackling the challenges of managing custom SaaS APIs within an IG framework.

When Your Open Source Turns to the Dark Side

Not that long ago, in a galaxy that isn’t remotely far away, a disturbance in the open source world was felt with wide-ranging reverberations. Imagine waking up one morning to find out that your beloved open source tool, which lies at the heart of your system, is being relicensed. What does it mean? Can you still use it as before? Could the new license be infectious and require you to open source your own business logic? This doom’s day nightmare scenario isn’t hypothetical.

Pipeline Talk: Between Two Fernders Edition

Cribl’s co-founders, Clint Sharp, Dritan Bitincka, and Ledion Bitincka, recently took time to host a Between two Fernders edition of Pipeline Talk at the Cribl offices to discuss a wide variety of topics, including Cribl Lake, the N-Gage, WWE aspirations, fishing poles, how CAT6 cabling is not named after actual cats, and wondering if Apple’s iPhone will be a consumer hit (Yes, we know what year it is, but the host clearly doesn’t).

Elastic Observability on Google Cloud - Access insights in real-time with AI

With the power of Elastic on Google Cloud, you can bring your logs, metrics, traces, and profiling together at scale for unified visibility and AI-powered insights across your entire ecosystem. Discover how organizations of all sizes unify and visualize all their data in one place using the combined innovation of Elastic and Google Cloud.

Sentry vs Coralogix: Comparison of RUM capabilities, pricing & more

As Coralogix is a full-stack observability platform with log analytics, RUM, APM, SIEM and more, it’s hard to really compare it to Sentry’s very limited offering of error tracking and some other real user monitoring functionality. Sentry is also insanely expensive in comparison to Coralogix. Nonetheless, we shall attempt to assess how Sentry’s RUM offering stacks up.