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Pastries with SREs: OTel me where the cronuts are

In this episode of Pastries with SREs, we tackle an observability debated topic: Do you need a Single Pane of Glass OR is OpenTelemetry a better strategy? We explore: Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

Logs & Lattes: Episode 1 - Smart Logging Without the Price Trap

How much value are you really getting from your logs, and what are you giving up to stay on budget? In this episode of Logs and Lattes, host Palmer Wallace sits down with Seth Goldhammer, VP of Product Management at Graylog, for a candid conversation about the hidden cost of traditional SIEM pricing. Seth explains how ingest-based and resource-heavy licensing models pressure security teams into tough tradeoffs, such as dropping logs, tuning down detections, or limiting retention just to avoid budget overages.

Pastries with SREs: Limitless observability and uncompromised donuts

In this episode of Pastries with SREs, we dig into Limitless Observability with a sweet side of unified observability strategy. If you're tired of siloed tools, fractured data, and swivel-chair investigations, this one’s for you. We explore: Why are silos still the norm in modern observability? What’s the true cost of inefficiencies across logs, metrics, and traces? How can SREs, IT operations, and dev teams shift to a no-compromise, unified observability model?

Logs vs. Metrics: Why You Need Both for Observability

Picture this: Your dashboards are calm. CPU load is steady. Error rates are low. Everything looks fine. That is, until the alarms go off. Now what? Metrics tell you something’s wrong, but not what, where, or why. They reveal symptoms, not root causes, and in high-stakes environments, that’s only half the story. Say your API response times spike. Metrics raise the flag, but they don’t tell you if it’s a code deployment, a database hang, or a traffic surge.

Visualize Logs Alongside Metrics: Complete Observability Elasticsearch Performance

Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine that powers everything from log management platforms to e-commerce search bars. It excels at indexing and retrieving large volumes of data quickly, but like any complex system it can slow down under heavy load or inefficient queries.

Monitor Cloud-Native & Hybrid Apps and Business Transactions With Observability Cloud APM

As organizations modernize, most applications don’t fit neatly into one category—they span both traditional three-tier architectures and cloud-native microservices. To monitor these hybrid environments effectively, teams need APM tools that can seamlessly connect the two worlds.

Instrumentation Your Way: Introducing a Combined Splunk AppDynamics Agent

In 2025, microservices are everywhere and Kubernetes is the de facto standard for operating cloud native applications. But not all apps are built in microservices architectures. For most enterprises, hybrid environments are the reality, with their business run on a mix of three-tier and cloud native applications.