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Depending on your business, MTTR stands for mean time to repair or mean time to recovery – but it can also mean resolution, resolve, or restore. No matter how you define it, the basic measurement is the same: it’s the time it takes from when something goes down to when it is back and fully functional. This includes everything from finding the problem to fixing it. For ITOps teams, keeping MTTR to an absolute minimum is crucial.

At Cribl, we understand precisely what challenges our customers face when running complex searches, and the importance of getting exactly what they need with their queries. Cribl Search’s latest feature, Operator Preview, allows data analysts to test search operators without committing to a full search. It saves time, reduces costs, and streamlines your everyday data analysis.

Log data is big data! But that’s not why it’s such a big deal. Log data can be really useful if you know what to do with it — which is where log analysis and analytics comes in. Let’s take a look at this valuable activity, starting with what log data can tell us and moving into how we can use analytics to inform business practices. (This article was written in collaboration with Muhammad Raza.)

At observIQ, we use the OTel collector to collect host/container-level metrics and logs from our systems. But to get more detailed monitoring of our applications (APM), we use the OTel SDK and instrumentation libraries. This post aims to provide a quick start to setting up tracing exporting to a local Jaeger instance.

Need to monitor a UNIX-like system, but can’t install Netdata on it? With our SNMP collector and Net-SNMP, you can get basic system information with just a bit of relatively quick and easy configuration.

Logs provide valuable information for troubleshooting application performance issues. But as your application scales and generates more logs, sifting through them becomes more difficult. Your logs may not provide enough context or human-readable data for understanding and resolving an issue, or you may need more information to help you interpret the IDs or error codes that application services log by default.

Free status page tools and open source status page tools became a valuable tool to keep users on track with the status of tasks and problems. However, countless self hosted, accessible, and open source status page platforms are available. Open source status page tools are crucial for notifying internal employees of threats and connecting with end users.

You likely already know how important it is to have a reliable website for your business — After all, your website is often the first point of contact between your company and potential customers. And if that website is not accessible or functioning properly, you could be missing out on some key opportunities to grow.

In today's world, where data plays a huge role in business success, companies must manage and analyze large amounts of information. Data warehousing has become a critical part of business operations to handle this challenge. Snowflake, a top cloud data warehousing platform, provides a scalable, secure, and flexible solution to help businesses adapt to their ever-changing data needs.

Systems for managing electronic health records (EHRs), clinical decision support, claims and payments, operations, and more are advancing rapidly in the healthcare industry. A more complex and dynamic mix of internal and external networks now play an integral role in patient outcomes. Digital transformation in healthcare is swiftly moving from islands of data to interconnected hybrid environments through critical apps like Epic Systems.