Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

JSON Jiu Jitsu: Has JSON Parsing Got You in a Chokehold?

Apr 13, 2026 By Graylog In Graylog
From malformed fields to endlessly nested objects, JSON logs can feel like they’re trying to submit your SIEM. In this technical session, we’ll demonstrate how to turn that chokehold into a clean takedown using Graylog’s parsing, normalization, and enrichment capabilities. You’ll learn how to: Whether you’re a SOC analyst tired of regex wrestling or an admin looking to streamline onboarding, you’ll leave with practical techniques to make messy JSON your sparring partner—not your opponent.
View Video
graylog

Unified Logging for a Single Source of Truth

Apr 1, 2026 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
In Star Trek, the Borg are a cybernetic alien organism that forcibly assimilates other beings and technologies into its hivemind called “The Collective.” Each assimilated being or technology becomes part of the unified consciousness, with the villainous Borg Queen as the leaders. As the only independent thinker, the Borg Queen leads this rapidly adapting Collective.
Read Post
graylog

Log Correlation for Security and Performance Monitoring

Mar 11, 2026 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
International travel comes with amazing sights, cultural experiences, and local delicacies. However, most travelers know that it comes with differing economies that impact a money’s value and various currencies. When people need cash, they have to translate the money in their wallets to the local currency, which means different coins and bills. Depending on the exchange rate, the currency’s value can change as the person moves from one country to another.
Read Post
graylog

Centralizing Docker Logs for Observability and Security

Mar 4, 2026 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Most people can remember the old game of telephone, the stream of whispered sentences or phrases across a group of kids. At each transmission, a different piece of information gets lost or misheard, leaving the last person with an incomplete or incomprehensible statement. Managing Docker logs can feel the same way, especially when an error message is lost or an error message lacks context.
Read Post
graylog

Your Data is Whispering and Needs a Human to Listen

Feb 27, 2026 By The Graylog Team In Graylog
If you have ever owned, operated, or supported a piece of technology, you have probably built a dashboard. Maybe it started as a quick chart to answer a simple question, then quietly grew into something more important. Dashboards are often created by the people who know the systems best, the ones who can wire together data sources and click all the right buttons. But those same builders are rarely trained in how humans actually interpret data.
Read Post
graylog

What is OpenTelemetry and Why Do Organizations Use it?

Feb 19, 2026 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Mining for information about environments is like trying to find gold. Looking for gold can be sifting through silty waters or blasting through a mine. In some cases, the gold nuggets are so small as to be almost invisible, some things look like gold but aren’t, and others are larger nuggets where the miner strikes it rich. Trying to understand how a distributed system works means sifting through vast amounts of telemetry, looking for patterns.
Read Post
graylog

What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Feb 17, 2026 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
The Iron Man’s J.A.R.V.I.S. is the artificial intelligence (AI) that almost every person wants to see. A conversational technology that answers questions like a friend would. The rise of large language models (LLMs) almost seems to give people the friendly robotic sidekick that generations of children grew up dreaming about.
Read Post
graylog

Observability vs Monitoring: Getting a Full Picture of the Environment

Feb 2, 2026 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Driving down the highway, you usually glance intermittently at your speedometer to ensure that you stay within the speed limit, or whatever window above the speed limit you’re willing to drive. While monitoring your speed mitigates the risk of a ticket, you still need to look out for various threats on the road, like cars going through stop signs. By observing your surroundings, you take in real-time information that can help prevent a crash.
Read Post
graylog

From Atlassian JSON to Actionable Audit Insights

Jan 28, 2026 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Atlassian audit logs carry high-value security and operational signals, yet the raw format makes them hard to use in day-to-day investigations. Nested JSON, arrays inside arrays, and localization keys turn routine questions into slow, manual work. For lean Security and IT teams, that friction shows up as delayed triage, fragile dashboards, and alerts that fire without enough context to act.
Read Post

Taming Atlassian Audit Logs: Processing messy JSON to enable operational insights

Jan 28, 2026 By Graylog In Graylog
Atlassian’s audit records are data-rich, but messy. In this data-driven deep dive, Eddy Gurney from NetScout shares what it took to get them into Graylog. He walks through four pipeline approaches and why each fell short, then shows how moving parsing to the edge with Filebeat unlocked Graylog. With clean, flattened events flowing in, alerts and dashboards turn “noise” into operational visibility. You’ll also see how Sidecars makes config rollout easy, plus what changes to make if you’re on Atlassian Cloud instead of Data Center.
View Video

Copyright © 2026 OpsMatters™. All rights reserved.