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Synthetic Monitoring Is Broken. Your Production Traffic Can Fix It.

Sep 22, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Synthetic monitoring has been a critical part of application reliability for years. It gives engineering and operations teams a way to proactively test applications, APIs, and critical customer journeys before users encounter problems. But there is a fundamental limitation with the traditional approach: Someone has to create the tests. As applications become more distributed and customer journeys become more complex, organizations can end up maintaining hundreds or even thousands of synthetic scripts. Every new feature, API, dependency, or change to a customer journey can require another update.
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Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 17 - Notebooks

Sep 22, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
Whether you call them runbooks, response guides, or just notebooks, today on Cribl on your coffee break, we are looking at Cribl’s implementation, which lets you document your notes, queries, and discoveries as you make them, and then re-run those same processes later to troubleshoot similar issues in the future with less toil. By the time the month is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed more caffeinated beverages than is strictly appropriate...
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How Adaptive Tail Sampling Works in the OpenTelemetry Collector

Sep 21, 2026 By Mike Goldsmith In Honeycomb
You're producing more trace data than you want to pay to store, so you sample. A fixed 1-in-100 rate cuts your bill, but it's blind. It keeps 1% of your errors, 1% of the requests to that rarely-hit route, and 1% of the health checks, all at the same rate. The noisy traffic you care about least dominates what you keep while the traces you need during an incident are the ones most likely to be gone.
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Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 16 - Dashboards

Sep 21, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
Welcome to the final week of Cribl on your coffee break, the series to help you get started with the Cribl platform. Today we’re going to cover the last of the "essential skills” in the Cribl platform: using and building dashboards. By the time the month is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed more caffeinated beverages than is strictly appropriate...
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Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 15 - Routes, part 4 and Cribl Packs

Sep 18, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
Welcome to the end of week 3 of series to help you get started with the Cribl platform. We’re still talking about routing, but through the lens of Cribl Packs, a way of supercharging your path to getting your data in and through Cribl. By the time the month is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed more caffeinated beverages than is strictly appropriate...
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Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 14 - Routes, part 3: One-to-Many

Sep 17, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
Welcome to the 14th installment in our series to help you get started with the Cribl platform. Here, we continue our conversation about Cribl routes and routing techniques By the time the month is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed more caffeinated beverages than is strictly appropriate...
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c1

Why Security and Observability Must Work Together in 2026

Sep 17, 2026 By Lucas Persell In C1
Modern IT environments generate more data than ever. Every application request, user login, network connection, cloud workload and endpoint action produces signals that can help teams understand what is happening across the business. Yet having more data has not necessarily made organizations more secure, more reliable, or easier to operate.
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Avantra

SAP Observability Tools Compared

Sep 16, 2026 By Avantra Team In Avantra
Comparisons of SAP observability tools often evaluate which platforms can see inside SAP.Today, that’s nearly all of them. Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic and Splunk can all get SAP telemetry. None of them are likely the best choice for an SAP-centric application, and we will document why. The questions teams evaluating SAP observability solutions should consider: That last one is where most of these platforms stop, and it is the difference between observability and operations.
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Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 13 - Routes, part 2: Many-to-one

Sep 16, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
Leon is back from the BlackHat conference and it shows (or at least it SOUNDS like it). Despite a little bit of laryngitis, today he’s continuing the exploration of routing by focusing on taking multiple sources of data and using routes to send them to a particular destination. By the time the month is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed more caffeinated beverages than is strictly appropriate...
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