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Optimizing APM Costs and Visibility with Cribl Stream and Search

OpenTelemetry is starting to gain critical mass due to its vendor neutrality and having worked in the APM space for the last five years. I can see the appeal. Using OpenTelemetry libraries to instrument your code frees you from putting vendor libraries in your codebase. The other challenge most customers face is balancing cost versus visibility. While effective, most APM solutions are costly.

Major Hospital System Cuts Azure Sentinel Costs by Over 50% with Observo.ai

A large North American hospital system saw rapid increases in its Microsoft Azure Sentinel SIEM expenses primarily due to the escalating growth of security telemetry data. Their primary data sources were Fortinet Firewall logs, Windows Event Logs, Active Directory, Domain Controller, and DNS logs.

Elastic Observability monitors metrics for Microsoft Azure in just minutes

Developers and SREs choose Microsoft Azure to run their applications because it is a trustworthy world-class cloud platform. It has also proven itself over the years as an extremely powerful and reliable infrastructure for hosting business-critical applications. Elastic Observability offers over 25 out-of-the-box integrations for Microsoft Azure services with more on the way. A full list of Azure integrations can be found in our online documentation.

Up Your Observability Game With Attributes

Splunk Observability Cloud includes powerful features which automatically identify patterns within your data to surface trends. The resulting insights tell you why some customers aren’t getting an optimal experience from your application, and how you can improve it. Unlocking these features requires attributes to be included with your application traces. But how do you know which attributes are the most valuable for your application and business?

The Top 15 New Relic Dashboard Examples

Among the arsenal of tools available for monitoring and managing an organisation’s mission critical applications and service, New Relic is a popular choice for many users. In our article, we will delve into the world of New Relic Dashboards, shedding light on the best use cases that demonstrate their visualisation capabilities.

5 Important Reasons Why You Need Application Observability

Application performance monitoring (APM) has been around for a long time. Odds are if you’re tasked with overseeing app performance, you’ve had to deal with this technology to get an understanding of your applications and any issues that can arise in the name of troubleshooting. But there’s a new approach you should consider: application observability.

Forward logs from Google Cloud Platform to Site24x7 with Dataflow

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enables organizations to create and scale applications. Activities in applications, whether on Compute Engine or other services from virtual machines to serverless environments on GCP, produce a significant amount of logs. Logs play a crucial role in helping you achieve effective observability and troubleshooting. But the logs may experience irregular surges in data ingestion during major system events, posing challenges for network overhead.

Navigating IT and Security Consolidation in 2024

Please join Cribl’s Ed Bailey and Jackie McGuire for a dynamic discussion around IT and Security vendor consolidation in 2024. The current economic landscape poses challenges for companies to sustain operations without being profitable or having a clear path to profitability. As a response, businesses are either merging with similar companies or becoming part of larger entities through acquisitions. Change is afoot, so join the conversation as we dive into the ongoing transformations, discussing the implications for security and observability. Get ready for an engaging discussion.