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Getting Started with OpenTelemetry Visualization - A Practical Guide

OpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF) project aimed at standardizing the way we instrument applications for generating telemetry data(logs, metrics, and traces). However, OpenTelemetry does not provide storage and visualization for the collected telemetry data. For OpenTelemetry visualization, you need to use a backend that can ingest the collected data and provide a web UI to visualize it.

Six Compelling Reasons to Choose Motadata AIOps Every Day, Every Time

Is your IT operations team falling short of diagnosing and handling complicated problems? When downtime occurs, managing alerts from numerous applications can be difficult. Every minute of downtime costs your company hundreds of dollars. It highlights a significant concern: the inability to assess and manage incidents. Failure to fix this issue can have serious ramifications. These could include extended downtime, bad customer experience, and lost income.

Essential Kafka Security Best Practices for 2024

Ah, Kafka—the powerhouse behind real-time data streaming in today’s world. It’s efficient, scalable, and handles vast amounts of data with ease. But with great power comes great responsibility, right? And in 2024, with cyber threats more sophisticated than ever, securing your Kafka environment is no longer just a good idea—it’s non-negotiable.

Log Miner

Learn how Selector’s Log Analytics simplifies log management by enabling direct ingestion from various sources, including network, infrastructure, cloud, and applications. With real-time analysis, it filters and clusters log data, detects anomalies, and surfaces actionable insights automatically. Explore how users can select specific time periods, search and filter logs easily with intuitive controls. Using Named Entity Recognition (NER), Selector extracts key metadata from logs for searching and correlation with other telemetry.

Work Flow Management

Streamline your workflow from start to finish with the Selector platform. From receiving alerts to filing incident reports, Selector simplifies the process by offering real-time insights, including probable root causes, directly in your favorite collaboration tools. No more manual event correlations—Selector automates everything for you. With just a click, access detailed insights and investigate the specific changes that triggered the issue. Leverage Selector’s GenAI-powered query interface to explore observability data and file incidents on your chosen ticketing system.

AWS GovCloud vs Azure Government Cloud - What's the Top Government Cloud Provider

If you’re ready to leap to the government cloud, you’re likely looking back and forth between Amazon and Microsoft, wondering which is the best (and safest) bet. We’ve got you covered! Learn all you need to know from our cloud experts about which government cloud offering will work best for you – and it may come as a surprise, but there are other options outside of AWS and Azure… get into the details below!

What is GovCloud - Compete Guide to GovCloud in 2024

If you’re a U.S. federal, state, or local government agency trying to deliver services to the public faster without sacrificing a single inch of security, GovCloud is the PaaS (Platform as a Service) solution. But what exactly is GovCloud, and how can it ensure you deliver services more efficiently and effectively? We’ll tell you all you need to know so you can decide if you’re ready to upgrade your tech stack with this tool.

How to build automatic remediation workflows in Grafana Cloud

When incidents occur, engineers must jump into action to get systems back to running at peak performance. However, there are a myriad of challenges that can prevent them from resolving the issues swiftly. Imagine a scenario where a team of DevOps engineers manages a cloud-based e-commerce platform that experiences occasional spikes in traffic during peak shopping seasons. During one of those major sales events, the team notices a sharp spike in CPU usage across several critical application servers.