Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The idea of paying money to store logs nobody is looking at may seem like a waste. Well, that is until you need those logs. At that point, you see how valuable log retention is, especially if there’s a security or compliance issue. When you prioritize log retention, you can look back to investigate an incident or provide data for an audit — especially when you centralize log and metric data in one platform.

In today’s world of flexible work, technology has to be one thing above all else: versatile. A decade ago, virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) wouldn’t have been able to meet this moment – VDI used to be too narrow and restricted in terms of what use cases it could service. Fortunately, VDI has evolved dramatically since those days. Now, with the right resources, there’s very little you can’t accomplish through virtual desktops.

There are different positions on whether observability and monitoring are two sides of the same coin. We will analyze and explain what the observability of a system is, what it has to do with monitoring and why it is important to understand the differences between the two.

Monitoring and gaining additional insights about usage of your Splunk Cloud Platform deployment is essential for effective management as a Splunk admin. Your Splunk Cloud comes with the Cloud Monitoring Console (CMC) app, which displays relevant information about the status of your Splunk Cloud environment using pre-built dashboards.

We have always thought of our organization as special. Our plans were never to build a traditional business, and we know we have a unique culture. But it is nice when others outside of our company recognize that Grafana Labs is something special, too. This week, we were excited to be included on two very prestigious lists: The Enterprise Tech 30 and America’s Best Startup Employers.