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The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.

How Monitoring, Observability & Telemetry Come Together for Business Resilience

Systems going down because of an unforeseen incident? Got problems with your app or website? Is your audience missing out on products and services because your load times are too slow? Then monitoring and observability (and telemetry) should be of interest to you! In this long article, we’re covering everything! I’ll start with the concepts and how they work.

Industry Experts Discuss Cybersecurity Trends and a New Fund to Shape the Future

Cribl's Ed Bailey and Angel Investor Ross Haleliuk discuss trends in the CyberSecurity industry and Ross will be making a big announcement about his new fund to shape the future of the cybersecurity industry. Ross is a big believer in focusing on the security practitioner to provide practical solutions to common issues by early investment in companies he thinks will promote these values. Ed and Ross will discuss trends in the industry and common struggles that both Cribl and his new fund seek to address by adding value and giving security practitioners choice and control over how they run their security program.

Sweet Trick! Mastering O11y for Cloud-Native Technologies

Using the cloud can be challenging. Everyone likes to tell stories about a surprise cloud bill they received and laugh, but let’s be honest: it’s happened to all of us. When dealing with complex cloud environments and cloud-native architectures, gaining visibility into the state of the environment is critical. Today, developers are looking to monitor how things are working and performing as part of every step in the software development life cycle.

2023 is When More FinOps Practices will Shift Left and Cost Optimization around Logging will Get Central Stage

Effective troubleshooting and resolution of critical production issues require DevOps and R&D teams to utilize logging and observability. However, selecting the right logging solution can be challenging, given the wide range of available options and associated costs. Additionally, the strategy for logging usage should be tailored to the needs of different personas and use cases, such as DevOps engineers versus developers.

Using Cribl Search for Anomaly Detection: Finding Statistical Outliers in Host CPU Busy Percentage

In this video, we'll demonstrate how to use Cribl Search for anomaly detection by finding statistical outliers in host CPU usage. By monitoring the "CPU Busy" metric, we can identify unusual spikes that may indicate malware penetration or high load/limiting conditions on customer-facing hosts. The best part? This simple but powerful analytic is easily adaptable to other metrics, making it a versatile tool for any data-driven organization.

How CCP Games Used Honeycomb to Modernize and Migrate its Codebase

Imagine a universe in which a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) sets Guinness World Records for the size of its online space battles—and that game is built on 20-year-old code. Well, imagine no more. Welcome to the world of EVE Online, where hundreds of thousands of players interact across 7,800+ star systems and participate in more than one million daily market transactions.

How the All in One Worker Group Fits Into the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture

Join Ed Bailey and Eugene Katz as they go into more detail about the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture, designed to help observability admins achieve faster and more valuable stream deployment. In this live stream discussion, Ed and Eugene will explain guidelines for deploying all in one worker group. They will also share different use cases and talk about the pros and cons for using the all in one worker group.