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Achieve operational resilience with a flexible data store

Are you prepared for the unexpected? In today's rapidly evolving world, operational resilience has never been more critical for businesses to survive and thrive. Resiliency is the ability of a system to maintain its operations under adverse conditions, including system failures, unexpected surges in user demand, or even security breaches. The heart of many applications, particularly in this era of data-driven decision-making, is the data store or database.

Reduce MTTR and Address the Talent Gap with Logz.io Alert Recommendations

When our CEO and co-founder Tomer Levy delivered his “Observability is Broken” presentation at last year’s AWS re:Invent, he highlighted numerous challenges faced by today’s organizations as they seek to advance their observability practices. Of the six individual points that he noted, two specifically dealt with the current shortage of available engineering expertise, with another two focused on data overload.

The Quixotic Expedition into the Vastness of Edge Logs, Part 1: Analyzing Numerous Cribl Edge Nodes with Cribl Search

Cribl Search is a powerful tool that is designed to enhance your data search efficiency, irrespective of the location of your data. This blog will explore how this tool seamlessly integrates with numerous Cribl Edge Nodes in real time, simplifying the process of discovery and troubleshooting. An integral part of Cribl Search is the “teleport” feature, which enables users to access specific Edge Nodes for in-depth analysis, simply by clicking on a host field.

From Spotify to Open Source: The Backstory of Backstage

Technology juggernauts–despite their larger staffs and budgets–still face the “cognitive load” for DevOps that many organizations deal with day-to-day. That’s what led Spotify to build Backstage, which supports DevOps and platform engineering practices for the creation of developer portals.

Kubernetes | How to run ElasticSearch, Kafka and Logstash in Kubernetes

How to run ElasticSearch, Kafka, and Logstash in Kubernetes Kubernetes has become one of the best choices for running distributed, big data ingestion microservices such as ElasticSearch, Kafka and Logstash. It provides a great deal of flexibility and resilience that make it the ideal hosting platform for a data pipeline. It's not however without it's pitfalls. Using the DKP Enterprise platform by D2iQ, our EMEA Principal Architect, Dave Whitehouse, gives us his top 5 tips for success using the open source, Day 2 applications that ship with the platform and run straight out of the box.

ChatGPT and Elasticsearch: APM instrumentation, performance, and cost analysis

In a previous blog post, we built a small Python application that queries Elasticsearch using a mix of vector search and BM25 to help find the most relevant results in a proprietary data set. The top hit is then passed to OpenAI, which answers the question for us. In this blog, we will instrument a Python application that uses OpenAI and analyze its performance, as well as the cost to run the application.

Amazon Security Lake & ChaosSearch deliver security analytics with industry-leading cost & unlimited retention

Amazon Security Lake is a new service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is designed to help organizations improve their security posture by automating the collection, normalization, and consolidation of security-related log and event data from integrated AWS services and third-party services (Source Partners). By centralizing all the security data in a single location, organizations can gain greater visibility and identify potential threats more quickly.

Top 10+ Best Log Monitoring Tools & Software: Free & Paid [2023 Comparison]

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape companies are facing an increasing number of challenges in maintaining their IT infrastructure, and ensuring application stability. It is critical to stay on top of all the information to ensure the health of the organization and the business side of it. One of the ways to achieve visibility is to use a log monitoring tool to centralize the log data coming from each application and infrastructure element.

What is Applied Observability?

There’s a new term on the technology block: Applied Observability. Gartner estimates that 70% of organizations will successfully adopt applied observability capabilities in coming years. The most common use cases of applied observability will include: But exactly what is applied observability? We’ve got the answers and more here for you to get a full understanding. Read on!