The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.
Metrics measuring user engagement on your website are crucial for observability in marketing. Metrics will help marketing departments understand which of your web pages do not provide value for your business. Once known, developers can look at the web page’s technical metrics and determine if updates are required. Typically user engagement statistics, like the average time required to load your page, are stored separately from technical site logs.
Recently, we added a new derived column function to Honeycomb, INGEST_TIMESTAMP(), which can help customers debug event latency and/or inaccurate timestamps. A meaningful minority of the events sent to Honeycomb are already old when they arrive, and a very special few claim to have been sent from the future. Has this happened to you? Let’s do an experiment.
We are thrilled that Elastic has been recognized as a Leader and a Fast Mover in the 2021 GigaOm Radar Report for Cloud Observability. GigaOm Radar reports offer a forward-looking view of the market and are designed to help IT decision makers evaluate solutions with an eye to the future. Their analysts consider not just where the solutions are today, but also how the market is evolving and where the solutions are headed relative to that trend.
Last week, we announced that Refinery, our platform-agnostic sampling solution, is generally available. But it’s always better to see it for yourself. Follow the steps in this HoneyByte to see how Refinery works by running it locally.
Digital transformation is accelerating at a staggering pace. Consider these statistics. In December 2019, Splunk partner Zoom had 10 million monthly active users. By the end of last year, that number was estimated to be closer to 300 million. It was part of an explosion of technological growth replicated across many industries and businesses in 2020. As Splunk CEO Doug Merritt said.
Before we start, please take a moment to appreciate what day it is. IoT, or Internet of Things, has been a buzzword for longer than usual. Buzzwords usually have two common properties, and then their paths fork. I like thinking about buzzwords and about the useful aspects of what they mean. The most recent public example focuses on another buzzword currently in its hype phase: observability.
