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Understanding OpenTelemetry: A Practical Guide

Observability is essential for understanding how modern applications perform and behave in production. OpenTelemetry has emerged as the industry standard for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data—traces, metrics, and logs—without vendor lock-in. This guide will walk you through OpenTelemetry’s core components, how it works, and why it’s a game-changer for observability.

What is Hosted OpenSearch? A Complete Guide for Businesses

As data continues to grow exponentially, businesses need powerful tools to search, analyze, and visualize their data efficiently. OpenSearch has emerged as a top choice for organizations seeking an open-source, scalable search and analytics engine. However, managing OpenSearch in-house can be complex, costly, and resource-intensive. That’s where hosted OpenSearch comes in.

VictoriaLogs Status Update: Heading Towards the Cluster Version

Today, we’re thrilled to share the latest updates on VictoriaLogs, your trusted open-source solution for efficient and user-friendly log management. Whether you’re just discovering VictoriaLogs or have been using it for a while, this post will walk you through the recent enhancements and give you a sneak peek at the much anticipated cluster version that’s on the horizon.

Introducing Observo Orion: Your AI Data Engineer for Security and DevOps

I’m thrilled to announce the general availability of Observo Orion, the industry’s first Agentic AI Data Engineer. This launch represents more than just a new product — it’s a fundamental shift in how organizations will manage their security and observability data pipelines. For years, I’ve watched organizations struggle with data engineering challenges. It’s been a highly specialized discipline, requiring deep technical expertise and significant manual effort.

Search and analyze unsampled logs in real time with Live Tail

With thousands of logs generated every minute from your infrastructure, applications, services, and devices, retaining all of this data for active search and analysis can be cost-prohibitive. Because log volumes continue to grow rapidly as operations scale, it’s common for organizations to implement log management strategies and limit the amount that they store in order to minimize costs.

Lakehouse Demo

Cribl Lakehouse is the first lakehouse built for the unpredictable nature of telemetry data. Unlike traditional solutions for structured data, it eliminates schema complexity and manual transformation while delivering elastic scalability, automated, ​​cost-optimized tiered storage, and federated queries across diverse datasets. IT and security teams can effortlessly store and analyze massive volumes of evolving telemetry data in real time—without data engineering expertise—unlocking the full value of their data with a unified, management experience.

Graylog Parsing Rules and AI Oh My!

In the log aggregation game, the biggest difficulty you face can be setting up parsing rules for your logs. To qualify this statement: simply getting log files into Graylog is easy. Graylog also has out-of-the-box parsing of a wide variety of common log sources, so if your logs fall into one of the many categories of log for which there is either a dedicated Input; a dedicated Illuminate component; or that uses a defined Syslog format; then yes, parsing logs is also easy.

Easy, comprehensive Logstash monitoring with Elastic Agent

Logstash is a powerful tool for ingesting, transforming, and shipping data from various sources. Visibility into Logstash is critical for optimizing performance and troubleshooting issues related to data ingestion. We’ve greatly improved the Logstash integration to display the status of your Logstash nodes and pipelines at a glance. The integration is now powered by Elastic Agent, which queries Logstash monitoring APIs for data that populates managed dashboards.