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How to Monitor MongoDB: Key Metrics to Measure for High Performance

Monitoring distributed systems like MongoDB is very important to ensure optimal performance and constant health. But even the best monitoring tool will not be efficient without fully understanding the metrics it gathers and presents, what they represent, how to interpret them, and what they affect. That’s why it is crucial not only to collect the metrics but also to understand them.

Observability Pipelines Have Never Been This Easy to Set Up, Manage, and Troubleshoot

Did you know? Baby goats stand and take their first steps within minutes of being born. There is no stopping the goats! Likewise, there’s no stopping the goats at Cribl from innovating! Our product herd is growing rapidly, and it’s time for us to share the latest and greatest about our head of the product herd – Cribl Stream. (If you haven’t figured it out yet, We love goats here at Cribl. We even have a goat mascot; meet Ian)

What's New With Cribl.Cloud: Search, BYO IdP, AWS Marketplace, and More

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Cribl is Redefining Search for Your Observability & Security Data

Cribl, a leader in open observability, today released Cribl Search, the first federated query engine focused on observability and security data. Search flips the observability market on its head, dispatching queries to where the data is already at rest. Cribl Search was engineered to let you search data-in-place, whether the data remains at the edge, in the stream, in the observability lake, at the endpoint, or even in existing search tools.

Livin' on the Edge With Cribl Edge 4.0: Featuring Improved Scalability, Enhanced Fleet Management, and AppScope Integration

Cribl CEO Clint Sharp first announced Cribl Edge in March of 2022. Our SVP of Marketing, Abby Strong, complemented the announcement with a well-rounded blog post discussing why Cribl Edge is the first fully manageable and auto-configurable agent designed to collect telemetry data at scale. Even Aerosmith gave the product a shoutout! Well, not really, but wouldn’t it be fun if it was true? 🙂 We’re thrilled to be back with exciting news about the latest release of Cribl Edge (4.0).

Cribl's New User Interface: Simple, Accessible, and User-Friendly

The last year has been HUGE for us here at Cribl; we’ve seen explosive growth across our business. For those of us in the Product teams, one of the most exciting areas of growth has been the launch of two new ground-breaking products. First, we launched the first fully manageable and auto-configurable agent designed to collect telemetry data at scale – Cribl Edge, which enables customers to move data collection, processing, and routing out into the data source itself.

Advancing Observability: Cribl Search and New Product Enhancements Available Today

Product launch day is our favorite here at Cribl. It’s the culmination of hard work from our entire team and, better yet, the first time our customers get their hands on our latest innovations. And today is a big one. Our newest product, Cribl Search, is now generally available on Cribl.Cloud.

Cribl's Fall Launch: Beyond the Pipeline

What's new in Cribl's Fall release? Stream 4.0: A UX refresh, new DB collector, and a Pipeline profiling capability for better visibility and reduced time to resolution. Cribl.Cloud 4.0: BYO IdP, cloud-hosted queueing for sources and destinations, and the ability to purchase a Cribl.Cloud subscription directly from the AWS Marketplace. Edge 4.0: The addition of fleet management, AppScope Edge integration, enhanced Kubernetes support, and the power to handle up to 15k Edge nodes for even more visibility, at scale.

"Managing OpenTelemetry Through the OpAMP Protocol" by Mike Kelly, observIQ

Managing thousands of data collection Agents across just as many servers can overwhelm DevOps teams. Open Agent Management Protocol (OpAMP) is a new network protocol from the OpenTelemetry Project that enables remote management of OpenTelemetry collectors, allowing them to report their status to and receive configuration from a Server and to receive agent package updates from the server. This eliminates the need to create new custom distributions and redeploy, drastically simplifying Agent management.