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Observability's Moneyball Moment: How AI Is Changing the Game (Not Ending It)

‍ We're not witnessing the end of observability, we're witnessing its evolution into something far more powerful. The observability industry is having its Moneyball moment. Just like Billy Beane revolutionized baseball by using data analytics to compete with teams that had vastly larger budgets, observability is undergoing a fundamental transformation.

How to Get Logs from Docker Containers

When a container misbehaves, logs are the first place to look. Whether you're debugging a crash, tracking API errors, or verifying app behavior—docker logs gives you direct access to what's happening inside. This blog covers the full workflow: how to retrieve logs, filter them by time or service, and set up logging for production environments.

How to turn logs into metrics with Grafana Loki (Loki Community Call July 2025)

Cyril Tovena shows us how to turn logs into metrics with Grafana Loki using metric queries in LogQL. What do you do when all you have are logs, but you want to count them, aggregate them, or parse them for numbers you want to graph? Well, there's a query for that! Cyril is joined by Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven to discuss everything you need to know about metric queries and how to use them to get numbers out of Loki.

How They Handle 44 Million Searches a Day...Without Breaking! | Rightmove and Elastic

Rightmove, the UK's number one property search, and buying and selling platform has trusted Elastic for more than 11 years. Hear Andrei Nicusan, Principal Engineer at Rightmove on why Elastic has been Rightmove's number one Search and Observability solution for more than a decade. And now with the move to Elastic Cloud and Google Cloud Platform, you can find out how Rightmove are taking advantage of reductions in their infrastructure overheads too!

Introducing MetricFire Logging: Visualize Logs Alongside Metrics

As modern infrastructure grows more dynamic and distributed, collecting logs alongside metrics becomes a critical part of any observability strategy. To make this easy and powerful, MetricFire now supports a direct logging pipeline using Grafana Loki. This allows you to forward system logs from your servers to Hosted Graphite's Loki backend and visualize them in your Hosted Grafana dashboards with full control over queries, filtering, and alerting.

Coralogix Expands AWS Partnership to Deliver AI-Driven Observability and Edge Threat Detection

Coralogix is proud to announce a new phase in its partnership with AWS through a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) focused on bringing AI-powered observability and security to the enterprise. At the heart of this collaboration is Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s managed service for foundation models.

See System Logs Alongside your Metrics Using Loki, Grafana, and Graphite

In this quick demo, we show how you can transform logs collected by Grafana Loki into actionable Graphite metrics using MetricFire. Watch as we convert structured logs into performance insights. Perfect for teams looking to bridge the gap between logging and monitoring. This workflow helps you move beyond basic log storage and turn raw logs into meaningful metrics for alerts, dashboards, and capacity planning.

APM best practices: Dos and don'ts guide for practitioners

Application performance management (APM) is the practice of regularly tracking, measuring, and analyzing the performance and availability of software applications. APM helps you get visibility into complex microservices environments, which can overwhelm site reliability engineering (SRE) teams. The generated insights create an optimal user experience and achieve desired business outcomes.