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13 Best Windows Monitoring Tools in 2025

It’s 2 AM, and your phone buzzes with an urgent alert—your primary server application is down, and users are flooding the support channels with complaints. As you dive into the logs, the cause is elusive, buried somewhere in the sea of system events. Is it a rogue service eating up memory? A failing disk? Or a network bottleneck? Without powerful Windows monitoring tools, you’re left troubleshooting in the dark.

CriblCon sneak peek with AlphaSoc

The countdown to is on and we’re giving you an exclusive first look at the expert insights, innovative solutions, and success stories you’ll see on the big stage. Join us as we chat with Chris McNab, Founder of AlphaSOC, a security startup that processes network telemetry to uncover infected hosts, emerging threats, and targeted attacks.

Audit log streaming for real-time security visibility in your CI/CD pipeline

Security and compliance teams face a critical challenge: by the time they discover suspicious activity in their development pipeline, it’s often too late to prevent damage. Manual audit log requests create bottlenecks that delay incident response, and gaps in visibility leave organizations vulnerable to insider threats and compliance violations. If your team struggles with any of these issues, you need a systematic approach to real-time audit monitoring.

Soft navigations: The future of seamless browsing

In the ever-evolving world of web standards, a new experimental feature is quietly reshaping how browsers perceive navigation: Soft Navigations. While still in the early stages, this concept has the potential to redefine user experience metrics, improve performance monitoring, and better align browsers with the behavior of modern web applications. Let’s dive into what soft navigations are, why they’re important, and how you can start exploring them today.

Securing the Future: Responsible AI on AWS with Sumo Logic -- Customer Brown Bag -- Sept 25th, 2025

This session with Moumita Saha, Sr. Security Partner SA – WW Consulting Partners, AWS, and Adam White, Sr. Dir. Technical Marketer at Sumo Logic explores how AWS and Sumo Logic partner to deliver practical strategies for securing generative AI applications, ensuring they remain safe, compliant, and trustworthy.

How to Push Prometheus Metrics to Splunk Observability Cloud with the OpenTelemetry Collector

In this video, you’ll learn how to scrape Prometheus endpoints with the OpenTelemetry Collector’s Prometheus receiver and send metrics to Splunk Observability Cloud. We’ll walk through configuring three common data sources (a Python Flask app, node_exporter for host metrics, and the NGINX Prometheus exporter), show how to enrich metrics with resource attributes, and build simple charts in Splunk Observability Cloud. You’ll see how centralized scraping and consistent tagging make it easy to manage and visualize Prometheus metrics in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Zooplus Found Faster Root Cause Detection with Elastic Observability

Zooplus Platform Engineering Lead Aram Hakobayan shares how Elastic Observability helps manage 3,000+ microservices and 15,000+ logs/sec across their AWS cloud. Learn how Elastic powers their French market, centralizes monitoring, simplifies root cause analysis, and avoids costly vendor migration. Ideal for DevOps, SREs, and cloud architects scaling fast.

Your Next Observability RFP is All Wrong. Why AI Changes Everything

AI-first observability addresses two of the most pressing troubleshooting challenges: complex IT environments and AI-generated code. But understanding how to implement AI in a way that brings ROI, requires cutting through the hype and maintaining realistic expectations, while keeping a forward-thinking vision. In this blog post, we bring practical tips for including AI in your next observability RFP. The article is based on a webinar held with Logz.io founders, CEO Tomer Levy and CTO Asaf Yigal.

The one where we talk about Cribl Guard

Manual hunts for sensitive data are slow, error-prone, and expensive. Cribl Guard combines advanced AI with a human-in-the-loop control point to spot sensitive data, such as credit card, passport, and Social Security numbers, as it flows through Cribl Stream. Whether you’re fully cloud or hybrid, Cribl Guard puts you firmly in control of every piece of sensitive information that crosses your pipes.

OpenTelemetry Logs - A Complete Introduction & Implementation

OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) incubating project aimed at standardizing the way we instrument applications for generating telemetry data(logs, metrics, and traces). OpenTelemetry aims to provide a vendor-agnostic observability framework that provides a set of tools, APIs, and SDKs to instrument applications.