Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Let’s face it: managing global data infrastructure isn’t just hard, it’s “I-just-deployed-the-wrong-config-to-prod-again” hard. If you’re a Cribl Admin or Operator working across clouds, continents, and compliance regimes, your to-do list probably reads like a series of increasingly desperate Post-it notes. Sources. Destinations. Pipelines. TLS settings. Proxies. Dev, staging, prod. Repeat. Forever. But what if we told you there’s a better way?

Think Sumo Logic is only for query language pros? Think again. Whether you’re deep into JSON logs or just trying to make sense of a Linux error message, these five time-saving hacks turn anyone into a log-searching ninja, no regex, no complexity, just clicks. From instantly parsing values to filtering down with a tap, these tips will help you troubleshoot faster, work smarter, and feel more confident in your observability game. You’ve got logs, now it’s time to put them to work.

Discover how Accenture and Elastic are helping businesses seize the opportunities offered by generative AI When it comes to generative AI, enterprises need to think big. Shaving a few seconds off the time needed to draft an email is helpful, but the journey to real value begins when you apply AI at the enterprise level. A new partnership between Accenture and Elastic combines technical expertise and strategic excellence, enabling businesses to build the data foundations for a successful AI future.

This guide aims to help your team shift testing left, simulate real user behavior, and catch critical issues early as part of CI/CD, prevent regressions from reaching production by automating tests as part of your CI/CD and aborting deployments that contain issues. Synthetic monitoring is a great way to check important flows in production and make sure everything is working the way it’s supposed to.

In Part 1, we explored how aligning network visibility with IT service context empowers faster, smarter incident response. But what does this actually look like? Here in Part 2, we’ll go deeper into the challenges of traditional monitoring approaches, and how teams should look to move from fragmented alerts to unified insights – because when ITOps and NetOps can both see the “what” & “why” of the problem, actions become instinct.