One of the gratifying things about working at Cribl is receiving daily validation that we’re making customers’ lives easier, and solving their real problems. Every time someone tells us something like this, our hearts gladden, and a goat angel gets its wings: Numbers like those also translate into…numbers. When we surveyed customers in our most recent quarter, our CSAT (Customer SATisfaction) score was above 90%.
Over the last 15 years, digital technology has fundamentally changed the way businesses operate. Every industry, from retail and hospitality to banking and airlines, has not only had to adjust to a world where customers increasingly rely on digital experiences, but they also have to build and manage the platforms where these experiences take place.
Observability is a methodology that you incorporate into your enterprise architecture to provide greater visibility into what is happening. It helps us determine the states of the system from their external outputs and allows technicians to identify bottlenecks, predict issues and mitigate them. As the architectures of IT systems are becoming more complex and distributed we use observability to meet the need to measure their internal states.
When we began the week, we had zero awards from Comparably. As we end the week, we now have a three-peat of awards. Cribl was recognized among 70,000 companies out of 15 million ratings – winning top honors for Happiest Employees, Best Compensation, and Best Perks and Benefits. We’re thrilled to be recognized by Comparably, and we’re looking forward to continuing our pursuit of being the best place to work.
The United States is the #1 target for cybersecurity attacks in the world. 38% of targeted cybersecurity attacks so far in 2022 were aimed at the United States data and systems. That’s alarming. And we see it in the news almost every day. Solarwinds, Colonial Pipeline, The Pulse Secure VPN zero-day… There’s an increasing number of threats and attacks, to the tune of 15.1% year over year.
What is an observability engineer? Is it your SIEM admin? How about your application performance monitoring admin? Neither? Both? Observability engineering is more than administering a tool. There is more to it than data onboarding, writing parsers, and getting data in. As an observability tool admin, you work with data producers and consumers to get data in a human-readable and searchable format from the source to the analytics system.
This article is the final installment in a series that demystifies observability. The first three focused on the history of observability, dispelling myths around observability, and what observability is and what it can offer. In this last article of the series (Check out part 1), I want to offer a complete definition of observability.
How easy is it to work with your security tools? So easy that you’re telling all your family and friends and you singing their praises from the occasional rooftop? Well, we sure hope so. Security tools, like any other tool, should help you save time, not waste it. Nobody would have invented a drill if screwdrivers were fast enough — but it’s also up to you to make sure you are using your drill and all the other power tools available in the modern world.
Everybody is starting to look more at object storage to deliver on data lake initiatives, and S3, specifically Amazon S3, is the gold standard for that. In addition, we’ve heard from many of you that setting up S3 as a destination is a must when starting with Cribl Stream. So in this article we’ll walk you through the setup.
