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Custom Alerts, SLOs, and Anomaly Detection with Elastic Observability

In this overview, we'll introduce you to the key features of Elastic Observability, focusing on custom alerts, service level objectives (SLOs), and anomaly detection. Whether you're managing infrastructure, ensuring service reliability, or overseeing software performance, these tools are essential for maintaining system health and efficiency. This video provides a quick glimpse into how Elastic Observability can streamline your monitoring tasks and alert you to issues before they impact your services. Perfect for those looking to enhance their observability strategy.

Kubernetes Logging | Set Up K8s Log Monitoring with OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes is a powerful orchestration tool for managing containers, but it comes with its own set of challenges. One of the biggest hurdles is effectively logging what's happening in your system. As your applications grow and spread across clusters, keeping track of their behavior becomes crucial. In this article, we will discuss logging in Kubernetes, common Kubernetes log types, and how logs can be effectively tracked and managed.

The Journey to 100x-ing Control Plane Scale for Cribl Edge

At Cribl, we value the simplest and quickest path to shipping new things. This is especially true with shipping new products. We took this approach with Cribl Edge, so we could get it into the hands of existing and potential customers as soon as possible to learn more about their needs and requirements. In order to ship a high-quality Edge product quickly, we based all of the systems for management and data streaming directly on the existing, battle-tested systems we built for Stream.

Elastic's RAG-based AI Assistant: Analyze application issues with LLMs and private GitHub issues

As an SRE, analyzing applications is more complex than ever. Not only do you have to ensure the application is running optimally to ensure great customer experiences, but you must also understand the inner workings in some cases to help troubleshoot. Analyzing issues in a production-based service is a team sport. It takes the SRE, DevOps, development, and support to get to the root cause and potentially remediate. If it's impacting, then it's even worse because there is a race against time.

Kubectl Logs Tail | How to Tail Kubernetes Logs

The kubectl logs tail command is a tool that allows users to stream the logs of a pod in real-time while using Kubernetes. This command is particularly useful for debugging and monitoring applications, as it enables users to view log output as it is generated and quickly identify any issues or problems with their application. In this article, we will see how to use the kubectl logs tail command to stream logs, the benefits of using the command, and an advanced tool for streaming logs.

Scaling in the Cloud with Cribl's Universal Receiver

Scaling cloud services is a critical task for Site Reliability Engineers, and it’s a challenging one. As organizations grow, the amount of data and the number of users of it grow like crazy, pushing traditional data management methods to their limits. SREs not only have to keep everything running, they’ve got to make sure it runs smoothly, efficiently, and swiftly.

A New Era of Cloud Security with Cribl and Wiz

Cribl is an integrations company at heart. We want to help every company develop a data strategy that gives them more control, improves security, and provides flexibility to adapt to their ever-changing data needs. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we are a Certified Wiz Integration (WIN) Partner to help customers take their cloud security game to the next level.

Does Your Observability Practice Lack Maturity? Here's What to Do.

Observability isn’t new. But organizations are struggling to adopt mature observability practices, and the impact on business is palpable. Organizations are seeing the value of observability for their applications and infrastructure—the results of our 2024 Observability Pulse survey of 500 global IT professionals reflects that across the board.

Introducing Elastic's OpenTelemetry Distribution for Node.js

We are delighted to announce the alpha release of the Elastic OpenTelemetry Distribution for Node.js. This distribution is a light wrapper around the OpenTelemetry Node.js SDK that makes it easier to get started using OpenTelemetry to observe your Node.js applications.

What's New With Mezmo: In-stream Alerting

Here at Mezmo, we see the purpose of a telemetry pipeline is to help ingest, profile, transform, and route data to control costs and drive actionability. There are many ways to do that as we’ve previously discussed in our blogs, but today I’m going to talk about real-time alerting on data in motion, yes - on streaming data, before it reaches its destination.