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At Seniorlink, we provide services and technology to support families caring for their loved ones at home. In the past two years we’ve expanded our programs across the United States, and so our need to observe our application systems has grown too.

With Elastic 7.14, the filestream input, the successor of log input, is now generally available in Filebeat. This new, superior input provides better support for reading active log files, with faster reaction time when there is backpressure in the system, quicker registry updates, better cooperation with external log rotation tools, and more.

I’m Tim, a Product Design Manager at LogDNA and a massive coffee and magic enthusiast. My team is responsible for creating a beautiful and easy-to-navigate user interface so that you can easily access, and gain value from, your logs. We’ve been working on making our product more accessible and are about to roll out some subtle changes.

Archiving is in and your logs are here to stay! We develop features that streamline the log management processes for our users. Logs are information assets, and we understand that you need to retrieve, re-asses and draw insights from your historic logs. observIQ offers a simple integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for extended retention. It takes less than 30 seconds to set up and archive logs directly to an S3 bucket in your AWS account.

When you’re troubleshooting an application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the more context that you have on the issue, the faster you can resolve it. For example, did the pod exceed it’s memory allocation? Was there a permissions error reserving the storage volume? Did a rogue regex in the app pin the CPU? All of these questions require developers and operators to build a lot of troubleshooting context.

Want to access your Splunk data on the go? We’re making it easier than ever to unlock value from your data anywhere at any time. Regardless of your role or level of technical expertise, you can use Splunk Mobile to view dashboards and take action from your mobile device.

In our Data Lake vs Data Warehouse blog, we explored the differences between two of the leading data management solutions for enterprises over the last decade. We highlighted the key capabilities of data lakes and data warehouses with real examples of enterprises using both solutions to support data analytics use cases in their daily operations.