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Elastic and Google Cloud's powerful partnership in 2025

In 2025, Elastic and Google Cloud created a powerhouse of AI-driven insights, providing an end-to-end search, observability, and security journey for our joint customers. We continue to partner on many opportunities for success and have made even further progress this year to empower all our users, especially around generative AI (GenAI). This blog highlights our collaboration with Google Cloud to help you harness the power of data at scale as well as our top moments from Google Cloud Next ‘25.

The Observability Stack is Collapsing: Why Context-First Data is the Only Path to AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis

By Bill Balnave, VP of Customer Success at Mezmo The core promise of modern observability is simple: cut Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR). Yet, despite a boom in tooling and investment over the last four years, the data tells a sobering story: our industry is actually getting worse at finding and resolving issues. Dashboards, once our trusted guide, have become the starting point for a chaotic "dashboard hunt" that rarely leads to the definitive root cause.

Confessions of a software engineer who enjoyed being paged at 5am

It’s 5:14am, and I wake up to the squawking geese sound of my PagerDuty alert (anyone else have this sound? No?). I’m four months into working for my new team as a junior software engineer, and this is my first time being paged in the middle of the night. Most software engineers probably dread this moment, but I kind of love it. Agile ceremonies and Jira tickets suddenly don’t matter, and you’re fully focussed on stopping a customer-impacting fire.

Elastic at AWS re:Invent: Concluding a year of partnership in agentic AI innovation

Highlights of another laudable year of customer-centric collaboration The integration of Elastic’s capabilities, including vector databases and context engineering, with AWS services helps customers build intelligent, scalable, and secure applications faster and with greater flexibility. Our ongoing collaboration has resulted in another year of notable innovation with AWS. This blog highlights our continued collaboration with AWS throughout 2025 to help you capitalize on the power of AI.

Logging Best Practices (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call)

We’re back with a new Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call episode, and this time we’re diving into logging with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Loki! Even better, we’re joined by two fantastic guests: Jack Berg, OTel logging expert, and Ed Welch, Loki guru. Getting both of them in one conversation makes for an amazing deep-dive into all things logging. Logs come in every shape and size, from simple CLI output to massive distributed systems generating petabytes of structured data. In this episode, we’ll talk about.

About us - Sumo Logic

Security teams are flooded with thousands, or even millions, of signals every day. Sumo Logic’s entity-based SIEM and Dojo AI agents automate the manual work of detection, triage, and remediation so you can act faster on the alerts that matter. Discover how Sumo Logic simplifies security operations, helping you cut through the noise and protect your digital world.

Improve log utilization with Datadog log exclusion filters | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Want to make your logs easier to work with? Excluding unneeded logs from indexing reduces noise and may reduce log management costs. In this video, you’ll learn how to: See for yourself how to improve log utilization with Datadog Log Patterns and log exclusion filters. Then set up an alert to track ingestion spikes.

Setting up OpenTelemetry Demo in Kubernetes with Splunk Observability Cloud

Are you looking to explore the power of OpenTelemetry and Splunk Observability Cloud in a Kubernetes environment? This video provides a comprehensive, step-by-step walkthrough on how to deploy the OpenTelemetry Demo application in Kubernetes and seamlessly integrate it with Splunk Observability Cloud for metrics, traces, and logs! In this tutorial, you'll learn.

Tech Talk - Splunk Observability for AI

In this Tech Talk, we’ll show you how Splunk’s agentic, AI observability delivers end-to-end visibility of the entire AI stack, from agents and large language models (LLMs) to the underlying infrastructure. You’ll see how AI Infrastructure Monitoring provides teams with data-dense dashboards and detectors for surfacing trends, patterns, and outliers to correlate application health with underlying AI infrastructure performance.

Tech Talk - Take action automatically on Splunk alerts with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

As digital and AI applications become more prevalent, the need for fast, efficient, and consistent management of IT operations is critical. This session will show you how to automate responses to Splunk Observability Platform alerts using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's Event-Driven Ansible.