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Setting up better logging in Azure Functions

We have been using Azure Functions for years. Being able to easily deploy and run code on both Azure App Services and real serverless has been a killer feature for all of our asynchronous jobs and services. Unfortunately, the logging approach provided as part of the default template is not ideal. In this post, I'll introduce you to the first steps we take in all of our existing and new function apps to improve logging. A quick note about the Azure Functions runtime.

Why public sector needs AI-powered observability: Cost savings, ROI, and analyst efficiency

Elastic Observability customers saw 243% ROI and $1.2 million in savings over 3 years For government and education organizations around the world, facilitating an efficient, reliable customer experience is essential when providing critical services and building trust with stakeholders. As technology infrastructure expands and the IT landscape becomes a complex mix of private cloud, public cloud, and air-gapped environments, the ability to see across all systems and data is challenging yet critical.

Elasticsearch and LangChain collaborate on production-ready RAG templates

For the past few months, we’ve been working closely with the LangChain team as they made progress on launching LangServe and LangChain Templates! LangChain Templates is a set of reference architectures to build production-ready generative AI applications. You can read more about the launch here.

Elastic Observability ES|QL Demo

Elevate Your Data Game with Elastic Observability and ES|QL! Discover the future of data querying with Elastic’s groundbreaking new feature: ES|QL! In this video you'll deep dive into how ES|QL revolutionizes the way you interact with complex, distributed data, ensuring seamless and efficient data analysis. Who Is This For? Whether you are a data analyst eager to optimize your query writing skills, or a business leader looking to democratize data insights across your organization, this video is tailor-made for you!

Quantifying the value of AI-powered observability

Organizations saw a 243% ROI and $1.2 million in savings over three years In today’s complex and distributed IT environments, traditional monitoring falls short. Legacy tools often provide limited visibility across an organization’s tech stack and often at a high cost, resulting in selective monitoring. Many companies are therefore realizing the need for true, affordable end-to-end observability, which eliminates blind spots and improves visibility across their ecosystem.

Best Practices for Using Git in Your Cribl Workflows

In this conversation, Sanjay Shrestha, Principal Detection Engineer at Bayer, and Raanan Dagan, Principal Sales Engineer from Cribl, talk about the integration of Git in Cribl Stream. They discuss how to manage configuration files and pipelines as code, simplifying their deployment. They also share a demo and give best practices for optimizing your GitOps workflow. In the 10+ years that Bayer has worked with Splunk, they’ve gone from processing just 80 GB/day to more than 13 TB/day.

Data Platforms Explained: Features, Benefits & Getting Started

A data platform is a comprehensive end-to-end solution for all your data. A true data platform can ingest, process, analyze and present data generated by all the systems and infrastructures within your organization. In this topic, there’s a lot of things to understand and consider. So, let’s take a deep look at data platforms, including the definition and related terms, the benefits and use cases, and how to start building your data strategy.

ELT: Extract Load Transform, Explained

Businesses today rely on analytics and insights derived from different data types for gaining competitive advantages. These data often come from different sources and in different formats. Without a unified solution, aggregating those data and performing analytics tasks is challenging. ELT has been invented to solve the complexities associated with processing data from multiple sources while retaining the raw data as it is.

Customer Data Analytics: An Introduction

Simply put, customer analytics (or customer data analytics) is the process of using information about customer preferences and behavior to improve sales, marketing and product development. You can think of customer analytics as the type of customer behavior where buyers are doing internet research before making a purchase. There is now a vast amount of information available for nearly every product category online.