Understanding Metrics, Logs, Events and Traces - the key pillars of observability and their pros and cons for SRE and DevOps teams.

Data dictionaries are an invaluable tool for any data-driven organization, but they can often seem like a complex and daunting task to build. Not only do you need to understand the definition of a data dictionary — you also have to know its components, benefits and how to create one. In this article, we'll cover everything about data dictionaries — from beginning to end — so that you'll have a good foundation of what a data dictionary is for. Read on for a detailed guide!

When engaging with potential customers, we are often asked “how can we reduce spend on our observability platform like Splunk or Data Dog and simultaneously justify the cost of BindPlane OP?” Let’s dive in and see how the powerful capabilities of BindPlane OP can reduce your total ingest, and get a positive ROI on your BindPlane OP investment.

As the affordable choice for cloud computing, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is catching up to its competitors, like AWS and Microsoft Azure. As a business, you need the speed and scalability that the cloud provides, but you want to limit your costs to ensure you hit revenue targets. With GCP, you found a digital services business partner to help you meet your business objectives, a technology that gives you the service availability you want at the speed you need.

Many organizations use Amazon CloudWatch to analyze log data, but find that restrictive CloudWatch log retention issues hold them back from effective troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. As a result, many companies may be looking for effective ways to export CloudWatch logs to S3 automatically. Let’s look at some of the reasons why you might want to export CloudWatch logs to S3 in the first place, along with some Amazon-native and open-source tools to help you with the process.

Follow these best practices to learn how to get the most out of your Google Cloud and third-party logging infrastructure for the lowest cost.

More platform teams owning multi-tenant systems need a full-stack observability solution that aggregates volumes of data into logs, metrics and traces. In tandem, there’s a growing number of major players in the observability industry, including New Relic. This post will compare some key features between Coralogix vs. New Relic. We will also go over what customers are looking for when choosing a complete observability platform.