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The Hidden Cost of Overlogging

Logging is usually an afterthought. When we're creating a feature, we often neglect to think about how we'll observe the actual behavior, and even if we do end up adding proper logging messages - we rarely consider the implications those log lines will have on our bottom line. It's a hidden cost factor, but one that continuously comes up in conversations we have with practitioners. To help shed a light on this topic we gathered a panel of industry veterans, who will come together on November 8th to discuss the problem in depth and offer a completely new approach to solve it.

Are you a network observability champion?

At Kentik, we pride ourselves as innovators and thought-leaders for network observability. “Kentik is network observability” is more than a slogan for us. It’s an idea that informs our product roadmap and guides our problem-solving with customers. We’ve done a lot to explain network observability to prospects.

Time Series Forecasting with PyTorch and InfluxDB

Time series data (also known as time-stamped data) refers to a collection of observations (data points) measured over time. When plotted on a graph, one of the axes for this type of data will always be time. Because time is part of every observable entity, time series data can be used in all kinds of industries, like the stock market, weather data, logs, and traces.

Prometheus vs. Zabbix

For a successful business, you need to introduce an effective monitoring system covering all areas of your business and infrastructure - servers, databases, services, overall traffic, and even revenue collected. The users of this monitoring system can be system administrators, software engineers, information engineers, as well as all sorts of analysts.

Splunk Platform Demo

Splunk Platform enables you to search, analyze, and visualize your data across your technology landscape. Take a look at how Splunk offers an extensible data platform that powers unified security, full-stack observability, and limitless customer applications. This Splunk Platform overview and demo will show you how Splunk can help you make data transformations to further accelerate your cloud-driven initiatives.

Auditing Your Automation's Access: Using More Automation

Between CI/CD pipelines, container orchestrators, and developer debugging tools, more and more automation is needed to scale your systems. But how do you know if that automation is accessing the right systems at the right time? And how do you ensure that your automation is safe from exploits by unauthorized users?

Changing Perspectives: A Deep Dive into the Security Posture of 600+ Real-World AWS Environments

Earlier this year, Datadog released the “State of AWS Security” study, which examined real-world data from more than 600 organizations and AWS accounts to understand the security posture of global AWS users who also leverage the Datadog Cloud Security Platform. Join Datadog’s Christophe Tafani-Dereeper and Andrew Krug as they explore some important insights from this study, such as the top ways organizations are breached on AWS and how tooling like Datadog Cloud Security Posture Management can help.

Deploying OpenTelemetry Organizationally: From Proof of Concept to In-Production at Scale

Observability involves telling a coherent story about an entire system. Over the years, video streaming service Pluto TV has had to navigate many storytellers in terms of observability vendors, tools, and formats before settling on OpenTelemetry to analyze and compare features across its many destination platforms. During this presentation, you'll see how Bharathi Ramachandran—Engineering Manager at Pluto TV—used OpenTelemetry to implement his initial proof of concept and get his entire organization shipping observability data at scale.