You have to capture everything to investigate security issues thoroughly, right? More often than not, data that at one time was labeled irrelevant and thrown away is found to be the missing piece of the puzzle when investigating a malicious attacker or the source of an information leak. So, you need to capture every network packet.

If I had a penny for each time someone asked for a single pane of glass view across my 20 years in the application monitoring (now observability) space, and I would be retired instead of writing this blog. But, on the other hand, I’d be in big trouble if I paid out each time we failed we finished that ask.

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies data collection and consumption. It has different types of plugins that retrieve logs from external sources, parse them, and send them to log management tools like Site24x7 AppLogs. tail, forward, udp, tcp, http, syslog, exec, and windows_eventlog are common input plugins.

When you’re working with large data sets, having that data structured in a way that means you can use software to process and understand it will enable you to derive insights far more quickly than any manual approach. Logfile data is no exception.

AWS announced CloudTrail Lake on January 5th, 2022, as a fully-managed solution for storing and querying CloudTrail logs. At first glance, it is straightforward to set up, can be enabled for all your organization’s accounts with a radio button, and keeps data for up to seven years by default! It’s a huge time saver and headache eliminator for many, as getting CloudTrail from all organization accounts to a SIEM can be tedious and time-consuming. But all this comes with a cost.

Our mission at Cribl is to unlock the value of all your observability and telemetry data, regardless of source or destination. We aim to give you choice and control over your data—because we know data has different value to different stakeholders at different times in the data lifecycle. Users are just scratching the surface in terms of the ways they are finding value from Cribl LogStream.

Examining Java logs is usually the quickest way to figure out why your application is experiencing trouble, so it's critical to have it in place. Best practices for Java logging can help you troubleshoot and address issues before they affect your users or business. In many circumstances, this entails utilizing a Java logging tool capable of automating your processes and delivering faster and more accurate results than manual logging.

Over 85% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production by 2025 say Gartner, with 4 in 5 enterprises expected to move their workloads from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. Migration to the cloud has IT admins and/or SREs managing an increasingly complex, hybrid IT environment, with an uphill battle of trying to monitor and troubleshoot their infrastructure components and services in real time.