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There's Nuggets in Them Buckets: How Cribl Search Can Mine Your Observability Lake

Enterprises have enough data, in fact, they are overwhelmed with it, but finding the nuggets of value amongst the data ‘noise’ is not all that simple. It is bucket’d, blob’d, and bestrewn across the enterprise infrastructure in clouds, filesystems, and hosts machines. It’s logs, metrics, traces, config files, and more, but as Jimmy Buffett says, “we’ve all got ’em, we all want ’em, but what do we do with ’em”.

Cribl Earns a Spot on the 5th Annual Enterprise Tech 30 List!

Cribl has been named to the 5th annual Enterprise Tech 30 (ET30) – a definitive list of the most promising, private enterprise tech companies. This is our first time on the ET30 list, ranking number four on the list of ten companies in the late stage category. The recognition highlights the value our innovative products deliver to our customers and partners as we work together to unlock the value of all observability data.

10 Best Practices When Logging in Python

In the eternal hunt for elusive bugs, logging is an indispensable aid. By recording the events and messages that occur during the execution of your program, logging opens the door to unparalleled debugging and performance monitoring capabilities. It all starts with Python’s built-in logging module. However, the true power of Python logging is unlocked not merely by using it, but by mastering it.

The leading InfluxDB Dashboard Examples

InfluxDB is a powerful tool for managing time-series data. It is widely used in industries such as IoT, finance, healthcare, and more. Using InfluxDB, you can query and store large amounts of data in real-time, making it easier to identify patterns, trends, and anomalies. InfluxDB dashboards provide a comprehensive overview of your system performance, metrics, and KPIs in real-time. You can customize these dashboards to meet your specific requirements.

Error Logging: A Complete Guide for Beginners

Today's applications are incredibly intricate and interconnected, often relying on numerous third-party services and libraries. With this complexity comes an increased likelihood of things going wrong. However, an error doesn't usually announce itself with great fanfare and a detailed explanation. More often than not, it shows up as an unexplained crash, a suspicious slowdown, or a surprising output. Error logging shines a spotlight on these problems.

How to Reduce the Volume of NGINX Logs

If you’ve worked with NGINX web servers, you know they’re efficient but can generate a lot of log data. While this data is valuable, sorting through it can be a challenge, and the storage and processing costs can quickly add up. This is where BindPlane OP comes in. It helps reduce log volume while still preserving the crucial information. It streamlines your data, filters out the irrelevant bits, and zeroes in on key data points, helping manage storage and keep costs under control.

Head in the Clouds: Data Value and Versatility with Splunk Cloud Platform

Data search and ingestion is cost-effective on the Splunk Cloud Platform. With workload pricing, you can measure the resources or computing capacity needed for different workloads versus the amount of ingested data. Yep, you could say that Splunk Cloud is all that and a bag of chips.

Full Overview: Reducing Web Server Logs (ex.NGINX)

Working with web servers such as NGINX, you know they’re efficient but can generate a lot of log data. While this data is valuable, sorting through it can be a challenge, and the storage and processing costs can quickly add up. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through refining an NGINX log data stream using BindPlane OP. We’ll dive into how to extract valuable metrics and reduce log volume by filtering out unnecessary logs. By the end of this, you’ll be able to navigate your log analysis process more efficiently, saving time⏳and money💰.

Overcoming Kubernetes Monitoring Challenges with Observability

At Logz.io, we’re seeing a very fast pace of adoption for Kubernetes–at this point, it’s even outpacing cloud adoption, with companies running on-prem fully adopting Kubernetes in production. Why are companies going in this direction? Kubernetes provides additional layers of abstraction, which helps create business agility and flexibility for deploying critical applications. At the same time, those abstraction layers create additional complexity for observability.