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Data Lake Challenges: Or, Why Your Data Lake Isn't Working Out [VIDEO]

Since the data lake concept emerged more than a decade ago, data lakes have been pitched as the solution to many of the woes surrounding traditional data management solutions, like databases and data warehouses. Data lakes, we have been told, are more scalable, better able to accommodate widely varying types of data, cheaper to build and so on. Much of that is true, at least theoretically.

Which Event Log Events Should You Worry About?

When you are configuring your event log monitor settings, you need to decide which event log events you need to worry about. Event logs are generated for a wide array of processes, applications, and events. Logs will record both successes and failures. As such, you need to decide what data is most vital and needs your immediate attention.

Coralogix - On Demand Webinar - 2021 Troubleshooting Best Practices

When it comes to troubleshooting, the majority of time spent is usually on finding the issue rather than fixing it. To change this, it’s not enough to store a few metrics - you need to also store context. In this on-demand webinar, we’ll explain the techniques for creating a powerful observability stack, that will not only tell you what is broken, but why it has broken.

Cloud SIEM: Modernize Security Operations and your Cyber Defense

Scott Crawford, Research Director of Information Security at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, joined by Greg Market, Vice President and General Manager of Security at Sumo Logic, discuss the increased adoption of cloud as a deployment model for SIEM. Cloud SIEM and various forms of deployment has become a significant factor for enterprises according to survey-based research at 451 Research.

Why We Chose the M3DB Data Store for Logz.io Prometheus-as-a-Service

Logz.io is focused on creating the best observability service to manage the scale of monitoring, add value on top of AI/ML technologies, and enhance enterprise security. Metrics is one of the pillars of Logz.io, and our Prometheus-as-a-Service offering. It has been a crucial part of our platform goals, but if we turn the clocks back a year, our service only used the open-source Elasticsearch database (ES).

Finding the Bug in the Haystack: Hunting Down Exceptions in Production

Software companies are in a constant pursuit to optimize their delivery flow and increase release velocity. But as they get better at CI/CD in the spirit of “move fast and break things,” they are also being forced to have a very sobering conversation about “how do we fix all those things we’ve been breaking so fast?” As a result, today’s cloud-native world is fraught with production errors, and in dire need of observability.