Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

It’s that time of year again–the temperature is dropping, snow is falling, and a new year has arrived. On the bright side, the end of 2018 brings the beginning of 2019 and a whole new list of tech conferences to look forward to.

The inherent limitations of most log managers and the need to work within the constraints of your current hardware may force your enterprise to make some hard choices. Less useful data may be left unchecked, old information will eventually get deleted, and the amount of data that is accessed in real-time is sacrificed to reduce excess workload.

This bank needed to upgrade their customer recording communications analysis & troubleshooting abilities, to comply with required regulations. It was also important for them to identify and resolve problems proactively. By implementing XpoLog they managed to significantly shorten the ‘loss-of-recording’ durations, perform quick troubleshooting and get to the root cause fast. Their ability to analyze/monitor their environments became much simpler and more efficient.

The firm runs hundreds of services which optimize online advertising. The company utilizes large amounts of data which is located both on-premise and on AWS. They wanted to: By using XpoLog the company created a single location that manages all the information from all the sources. The information is shipped to the XpoLog cluster and tagged to the relevant service/team. XpoLog is deployed and managed on AWS spot instances, reducing approximately 90% of the required hardware costs! Try XpoLog free.

Today we are releasing the first public beta of Graylog v3.0. This release includes a whole new content pack system, an overhauled collector sidecar, new reporting capabilities, improved alerting with greater flexibility, support for Elasticsearch 6.x, a preview version of an awesome new search page called Views, and tons of other improvements and bug fixes.

Scalability is a core requirement of modern applications. Applications need to be able to handle sudden changes in demand without losing resilience or performance. With the popularity of cloud computing and microservices, DevOps teams have a countless number of platforms and tools for deploying scalable applications. However, true scalability involves much more than just migrating an application to the cloud.

This leading medical care provider manages thousands of facilities and dozens of various patient portals. They needed to find an efficient way to analyze and monitor different services, to obtain maximum availability of their systems – so that patients/doctors get the information they need without interruptions. By implementing XpoLog: Their environment consists of multiple applications, centralized in a main data center, which interacts with all their facilities.