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Monitoring IT infrastructure and services has always been an essential IT prerequisite. However, your IT monitoring system and security measures need to upgrade with an exponential increase in the number of remote users post-pandemic. For instance, consider this: At the end of a work day, you are notified that one of your critical services has gone down. But the problem is that five teams support different processes of that service.

This article will give you a quick overview of some of the key attributes you should know in order to get started with leveraging the OpenTelemetry collector for your next telemetry project. As an integral component of any project that involves distributed tracking, the OpenTelemetry Collector plays an important role. Simply put, it is helpful to know that the collector itself is a data pipeline service that collects telemetry data.

Over the last 15 years, digital technology has fundamentally changed the way businesses operate. Every industry, from retail and hospitality to banking and airlines, has not only had to adjust to a world where customers increasingly rely on digital experiences, but they also have to build and manage the platforms where these experiences take place.

One thing that adds value to a business’s ecommerce presence is the ability for customers to easily find physical stores with an interactive map. Store locators can be built quite rapidly — all you need to place them on a map is geographic location in latitude and longitude. In this post, I’ll outline the pieces needed to put together a proof-of-concept store locator that could later be added to an ecommerce website.

Traditionally, when monitoring or troubleshooting active incidents, engineers access logs directly on the source system. However, modern IT environments are now too complex, and engineers can no longer manage and analyze logs effectively this way. With the adoption of microservices and the use of cloud-native infrastructure, it’s no longer feasible.

Moving to Splunk Cloud Platform has a lot of benefits, including flexibility, agility, and scalability. However, we understand that migrating to cloud is not a trivial task and can also bring up security concerns especially when it comes to having your data traverse the internet.

Observability is a methodology that you incorporate into your enterprise architecture to provide greater visibility into what is happening. It helps us determine the states of the system from their external outputs and allows technicians to identify bottlenecks, predict issues and mitigate them. As the architectures of IT systems are becoming more complex and distributed we use observability to meet the need to measure their internal states.

When we began the week, we had zero awards from Comparably. As we end the week, we now have a three-peat of awards. Cribl was recognized among 70,000 companies out of 15 million ratings – winning top honors for Happiest Employees, Best Compensation, and Best Perks and Benefits. We’re thrilled to be recognized by Comparably, and we’re looking forward to continuing our pursuit of being the best place to work.

Many developers don’t know what instrumentation really is, and those who do don’t really understand the black magic that takes an application and makes it emit telemetry, especially when automatic instrumentation is involved. On top of that, each programming language has its own tricks. I wanted to unwrap this loaded topic on my podcast, OpenObservability Talks. For this topic I invited Eden Federman, CTO of Keyval, a company focused on making observability simpler.