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5 ELK Stack Pros and Cons

Is your organization currently relying on an ELK cluster for log analytics in the cloud? While the ELK stack delivers on its major promises, it isn't the only search and analytics engine - and may not even be your best option for log management. As cloud data volumes grow, ELK monitoring can become too costly and complex to manage. Fast-growing organizations should consider innovative alternatives offering better performance at scale, superior cost economics, reduced complexity and enhanced data access in the cloud.

Sumo Logic Customer Brown Bag - Observability - July 31st, 2023

In this session, Jeff Deininger, Architect Solutions Engineer from Sumo Logic, shows how to perform version control using Sumo Logic API. If you are interested in an engagement to receive additional guidance from Sumo Logic's Professional Services team, please reach out to your Sumo Logic Account Manager and/or Customer Success Manager.

How Does Persistent Queuing Work Inside Cribl Stream?

Preventing data loss for data in motion is a challenge that Cribl Stream Persistent Queues (PQ) can help prevent when the downstream Destination is unreachable. In this blog post, we’ll talk about how to configure and calculate PQ sizing to avoid disruption while the Destination is unreachable for a few minutes or a few hours. The example follows a real-world architecture, in which we have.

How to Implement Cloud Cost Optimization in Observability

Although microservices and cloud architectures are the new norm for modern applications, cloud cost optimization could run high in observability. High costs are largely due to the number of components involved in cloud architectures. According to Cloud Data Insights in a recent report, around 71% of IT companies say that cloud observability logs are growing at an alarming rate— a driving factor for rising observability costs.

Flatten the SPL Learning Curve: Introducing Splunk AI Assistant for SPL

At.conf23, we announced the preview release of Splunk AI Assistant - Splunk's first offering powered by generative AI. This app offers an intuitive and easy-to-use chat experience to help you translate a natural language prompt into SPL query that you can execute or build on, all within a familiar Splunk interface. Splunk AI Assistant also explains what a given SPL query is doing in plain English with a summary as well as a detailed breakdown of the query.

CriblCon 2023 Keynote Session

On July 17th, 2023, more than 400 Cribl users came together at The Mirage in Las Vegas to celebrate each other and the power of learning at CriblCon. The theme of our conference, “Do Different,” resonated throughout the day, emphasizing our commitment to innovation and highlighting the distinctive approach our customers and employees bring to every aspect of their work.

How to use Splunk Universal Forwarders With BindPlane OP

A tutorial on how to start collecting data from your splunk universal forwarders using BindPlane as an aggregator, giving you the ability to start sending telemetry data to multiple destinations. About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.

What Is Adaptive Thresholding?

Adaptive thresholding is a term used in computer science and — more specifically — across IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), for analyzing historical data to determine key performance indicators (KPIs) in your IT environment. Among other things, it’s used to govern KPI outliers in an effort to foster more meaningful and trusted performance monitoring alerts.