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Secure your deployments on Elastic Cloud with Google Cloud Private Service Connect

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Google Cloud Private Service Connect integration with Elastic Cloud. Elastic Cloud VPC connectivity is now available to all customers across all subscription tiers and cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud).

Data Lakes Are Gaining Maturity, According to 2021 Gartner Hype Cycle for Data Management

IT leaders’ experiences with data lakes have been a roller coaster ride since their inception in 2010. To some, that roller coaster ride might resemble the canonical Hype Cycle graphic, trademarked by Gartner to show the maturity curve of technologies in a given category over time. This year’s Hype Cycle for Data Management report was just released, revealing that modern data lakes are poised to exit the Trough of Disillusionment and enter the Slope of Enlightenment in 2022.

Maintaining reliable services with advanced Cloud Logging features

We’ve covered ingesting, routing, storing, and viewing logs from your services in Cloud Logging already, but what else can you do with all that data? In this episode of Engineering for Reliability, we show how you can use advanced features like alerting on logs, logs-based metrics, and capturing application exceptions in Error Reporting. Watch to learn how you can find issues faster, make your services more reliable, and keep your users happy.

Understanding Cardinality in a Monitoring System and Why It's Important

The journey to becoming cloud-native comes with great benefits but also brings challenges. One of these challenges is the volume of operational data from cloud-native deployments — data comes from the cloud infrastructure, ephemeral application components, user activity, and more. The increased number of data sources does not only increase datapoint volume – it also requires that monitoring systems store and query against data with higher cardinality than ever before.

Taming Rails Logging with Lograge and LogDNA

Rails is a classic on Ruby for a reason. The framework is powerful, intuitive and the language has a low entry bar. However, being designed when systems existed on a single server, standard Rails logging is excessively fractionalized. Even on a single server, a straightforward call can quickly turn into seven unique, unconnected logs.