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Distributed alerting with the Elastic Stack

Modern computing environments and distributed workforces have produced new challenges to traditional information security approaches. Many traditional threat detection and response strategies rely on homogeneous environments, system baselines, and consistent control implementations. These strategies have been built on traditional environment assumptions that may no longer be true in your environment with the evolution of cloud computing, remote work, and modern culture.

See how reliability management enhancements expand your SLO value

When we announced the general availability of reliability management in Sept 2022, you saw how crucial this functionality was for the digital customer experience. Unique insights from users helped to improve the experience and usability that we’ve incorporated into our latest release. Now you can use a wide range of features that will help you on your reliability management journey.

Importing your Cloudwatch Metrics into Prometheus

Cloudwatch is the de facto method of consuming logs and metrics from your AWS infrastructure. The problem is, it is not the de facto method of capturing metrics for your applications. This creates two places where observability is stored, and can make it difficult to understand the true state of your system. That’s why it has become common to unify all data into one place, and Prometheus offers an open-source, vendor-agnostic solution to that problem.

Introducing the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture

Join Ed Bailey and Eugene Katz as they unveil the first Cribl Stream Reference Architecture, designed to help observability admins achieve faster and more valuable stream deployment. In this live stream discussion, Ed and Eugene will explain the importance of a quality reference architecture in successful software deployment, and guide viewers on how to begin with the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture by first establishing end-state goals. They will also share different use cases and help viewers identify which parts of the reference architecture are applicable to their specific situation.

How to Create a Dashboard in Kibana

Wondering how to create a dashboard in Kibana to visualize and analyze your log data? In this blog post, we’ll provide a step-by-step explanation of how to create a dashboard in Kibana. You’ll learn how to use Kibana to query indexed application and event log data, filter query results to highlight the most critical and actionable information, build Kibana visualizations using your log data, and incorporate those visualizations into a Kibana dashboard.