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Cribl Lake Wins CRN 2024 Tech Innovators Award for Data and Information Management

The greatest innovations are often the simplest. They address fundamental needs and make life easier in the most direct way. Cribl Lake was just announced as the winner of CRN’s 2024 Tech Innovators Award for Data Information Management. We are so happy and honored by this recognition, which solidifies our belief that the best innovations are indeed the simplest.

Shh, It's a Secret: Keeping Them Safe in Cribl's Software

Remember when you used to jot down passwords on sticky notes? Well, those days are long gone. In today’s world of data pipelines, secrets, similar to API keys, are like digital VIP passes. They open doors to critical systems and keep sensitive info on lockdown. At Cribl, we’re all about top-notch data security, and that means guarding your secrets like treasure. Let’s dive into our game plan for keeping secrets safe throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

How To Choose The Right Virtualization Monitoring Software For Your Entire IT Stack - Part 1

With many virtualization monitoring software options in the market, which is the right one for your entire IT stack? In this post, we’ll explore one of the crucial aspects of making this decision: the choice between agent-based, agentless, and hybrid monitoring solutions. Each approach has its own set of advantages and trade-offs, making it essential to understand which one aligns best with your organization’s needs.

How to Speed up your Playwright Tests with shared "storageState"

What are the two things making your end-to-end test investment a failure? Firstly, it's test flakiness. If you've invested days (if not months) in creating your test suite and it didn't turn out to be like this one trustworthy friend you have in your life for decades, you failed. You failed because eventually, you'll discover that every moment waiting for retrying tests became a burden.

Getting Started With Icinga Notifications

Icinga Notifications and Icinga Notifications Web just celebrated their first beta release. This post will try to help you get started by walking you through the interactive configuration, explaining both the underlying concepts and their actual effects. First, to get an understanding of what Icinga Notifications does, please read both the mentioned blog post and the introduction from the manual carefully.

How to integrate Okta logs with Grafana Loki for enhanced SIEM capabilities

Identity providers (IdPs) such as Okta play a crucial role in enterprise environments by providing seamless authentication and authorization experiences for users accessing organizational resources. These interactions generate a massive volume of event logs, containing valuable information like user details, geographical locations, IP addresses, and more. These logs are essential for security teams, especially in operations, because they’re used to detect and respond to incidents effectively.

Managing Observability Pipeline Chaos

The cloud environment has generated an unprecedented volume of data, making it increasingly difficult for enterprises to manage. With multiple SaaS and cloud-based applications in play, differentiating which data needs processing for analysis versus storage for regulatory compliance is a significant challenge. The growing number of data sources only complicates this further. So, getting clarity and control over this chaos is the goal, without having to overhaul your entire system.

Is too much data making your job harder? #youtubeshorts #dataanalytics #observability

What happens when capturing vast amounts of data becomes overwhelming instead of insightful? For years, vendors have prioritized collecting vast metrics, boasting thousands of data points. But is this approach beneficial, especially for developers who may not be observability experts? Understanding metrics shouldn't feel like deciphering a foreign language. Coroot is an open source observability platform that helps engineers fix service outages and even prevent them. It continuously audits telemetry data to highlight issues and weak spots in your services.

Are Cloud Observability Solutions Breaking the Bank? #youtubeshorts #observability #devopstools

Is the price of cloud observability becoming a burden for your infrastructure? Many professionals are concerned about the skyrocketing costs associated with proprietary observability tools like Datadog. With major acquisitions, such as Cisco's purchase of Splunk, one has to wonder if affordability is compromised in favor of profit. How essential is observability in today's tech landscape, and what alternatives exist?