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Color-coded log monitoring for simplified log analysis

Modern production environments generate massive volumes of logs every day. As systems become more distributed and cloud-native, that volume only increases. The real challenge isn’t collecting logs—it’s identifying what matters fast enough to act using effective log visualization. Most log views fail at this point. Every entry looks the same, forcing engineers to scan them manually and interpret lines under pressure.

Claude Code Observability at Scale: How We Did It With Bindplane

At Bindplane, we iterate fast. One of the most important tools we've adopted across our organization is Claude Code. It helps every team here build solutions to complex problems with both speed and precision. But speed without visibility is a liability. We needed a reliable way to monitor and audit how Claude Code was being used across our team. Luckily, we build the best platform on the market for data in motion.

How to debug REST Collector APIs with Cribl REST Collector Diagnostics

This video introduces the new REST Collector Diagnostics feature in Cribl, which helps you troubleshoot API collection issues faster. It’s designed for observability and data engineers who use REST Collector to pull data from external APIs and need deeper visibility into HTTP requests, responses, and errors.

How to Build a Cost-Effective Log Retention Strategy

Nearly every home has that drawer or doom corner where you store all those items that you don’t need every day but that you still want to keep for those “just in case moments.” If you’re a document connoisseur, you may have financial documents that go back years because an accountant once warned you that an IRS audit would require seven years of back documentation. In short, you have a lot of documents that you may or may not need taking up a lot of room in your home.

Cribl Search Pack for Zscaler: Setup & security dashboard walkthrough

Learn how to install and configure the Cribl Search Pack for Zscaler, then walk through prebuilt dashboards for your Zscaler security logs. This video is for security engineers, Zscaler administrators, and SOC/observability teams using Cribl Search to monitor and investigate Zscaler activity. In this walkthrough, you’ll see: If you need a reminder or want to share feedback on the pack, you can always refer to the README bundled with the pack or reach out to the Cribl team.

Logs told me something broke. Traffic showed me what.

Here’s a problem I run into constantly: something breaks in production, I can see the 500 errors in my logs, but I can’t reproduce it locally. The trace shows me the dependency graph but not the actual request that failed. This is especially painful in microservices. I was looking at a CNCF example the other day (a simple demo app, like 4 pods) and it already had so many cross-service dependencies that understanding what broke required looking at the whole system at once.

How LivePerson optimized Logstash and Kafka performance on GCP through benchmarking

By benchmarking five GCP machine types across both Logstash and Kafka, LivePerson's observability team found that infrastructure selection (not just pipeline configuration) is one of the highest-leverage cost optimization decisions at scale.

Observability Summit NA 2026: What the Community Is Thinking About

Two days in Minneapolis with the OpenTelemetry community, talking about where telemetry pipelines are headed and what the AI wave is doing to them. Two topics dominated everything: AI and cost reduction. Not as separate conversations, either. The more the community talked about AI telemetry, the more the cost question followed right behind it. I joined Diana Todea from VictoriaMetrics and Antonio Jimenez Martinez from Cisco ThousandEyes on the Telemetry That Matters panel.