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How to Set Up a Syslog Server: A Complete Step-By-Step Guide

Syslog servers are essential for centralized log management, helping network engineers monitor, troubleshoot, and secure network devices efficiently. This guide walks you through setting up a syslog server from scratch, focusing on practical steps using rsyslog on a Linux system—a common and robust choice for syslog collection. Windows does not have a native syslog server, so you need third-party software.

Fluent Bit Helm Chart: Simplify Log Collection in Kubernetes

Collecting logs in Kubernetes often starts as a simple goal, and quickly turns into a game of “where did that log line go?” Between sidecars, DaemonSets, and countless config options, it’s easy to get lost. Fluent Bit helps cut through the noise. It's fast, lightweight, and plays well with Kubernetes. And when you deploy it using Helm charts? The setup becomes way more manageable. This guide covers the how and the why, without overcomplicating the what.

Top Five Reasons Telemetry Pipelines Should Be on Every Engineer's Radar

You’ve probably felt the pain: data pouring in from every corner of your stack, tools choking on volume, dashboards lagging behind reality, alerts firing (or worse, not firing) without context. If that sounds familiar, it’s time to get serious about telemetry pipelines. Whether you're an SRE trying to stabilize a flapping service or a developer navigating multi-cloud chaos, a telemetry pipeline helps you take control of the data firehose.

Elastic - The Search AI Company

You may not know it, but you probably use Elastic every day. By combining the transformative power of AI with our deep expertise in search and vector databases, we are changing what's possible with search. Our Search AI Platform empowers organizations to have a conversation with all their data, build powerful GenAI applications, immediately diagnose root causes in observability, and hunt for threats at enterprise scale.

5 Ways to Optimize Your OpenSearch Cluster

OpenSearch is a powerful, scalable search and analytics engine that can do amazing things for logging, observability, and full-text search. But like any distributed system, it only performs well if you keep it properly tuned and healthy. Ignore it, and you risk slower queries, higher costs, and even data loss. Here are five practical tips to keep your OpenSearch cluster running smoothly and efficiently.

The best of both worlds with the Splunk Cloud Platform

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