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Modern systems throw off logs like confetti—and making sense of all that noise is half the battle. OpenTelemetry logging offers a way to bring some order to the chaos. It helps DevOps teams collect logs in a consistent format, no matter what language or framework they’re working with. In this guide, we’ll walk through what OpenTelemetry logging is, why it matters, and how to put it to work in your stack.

Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions — without managing infrastructure. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Google Cloud — now available in the Iowa (us-central1) region. Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale observability, security, and search solutions without managing infrastructure.

Despite the nonstop warnings, millions of users still gamble with their data. A 2023 survey by Acronis revealed that 41% of people rarely or never back up their digital files, and businesses aren’t much better. Fewer than 20% of businesses back up their SaaS data, even though tools like Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 don’t guarantee full recovery after a loss or attack. The consequences?

The information age has leapt forward with the explosive rise of generative AI. Capabilities like natural language processing, image generation, and code automation are now mainstream — driving the business goals of winning customers, enhancing productivity, and reducing costs across every sector. New large language models are emerging almost daily, existing language models are optimized in a frantic race to the top. There seems no stopping the AI boom.

At least once a week, a team reaches out to discuss migrating from an established SIEM or analysis platform. This major decision is influenced by several compelling factors, which can create significant work for engineering teams and pose risks to the business. The cost of switching to a new platform, often referred to as displacement costs, can be substantial.

Windows event logs can provide valuable insight into day-to-day operations and potential security issues. But making sense of that data—and getting it to the right place without overloading your systems or driving up costs—takes some planning. Bindplane helps with this by providing a flexible way to collect, process, and route Windows events. It’s designed to support security and compliance needs without adding unnecessary complexity.

When things break, logs are often the first place you turn to figure out what's going on, which is why Datadog makes it easy to find them. The ability to pivot between traces, metrics, and logs in one place speeds up investigations and helps teams move faster during incidents. That level of correlation is a big reason so many teams rely on Datadog. ‍

A year ago, we set out to transform log analytics pricing by making it as flexible, transparent, and as customer-friendly as possible. We built a model that aligns cost with business value, charging only for data storage and analytics executed. With Flex Licensing, customers can scale usage up or down without breaking the bank, eliminating hidden costs and inefficient licensing structures. There is no more pre-planning or tiering of log data; there is just log ingest with sensible pricing.