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How much value are you really getting from your logs, and what are you giving up to stay on budget? In this episode of Logs and Lattes, host Palmer Wallace sits down with Seth Goldhammer, VP of Product Management at Graylog, for a candid conversation about the hidden cost of traditional SIEM pricing. Seth explains how ingest-based and resource-heavy licensing models pressure security teams into tough tradeoffs, such as dropping logs, tuning down detections, or limiting retention just to avoid budget overages.

In this lecture, we explore how to build a cost-effective IT procurement process. A well-designed procurement strategy ensures your organization acquires the right assets at the right price, while also considering long-term value, compliance, and vendor relationships. By focusing on both efficiency and foresight, procurement becomes more than just a purchase—it becomes a driver of IT and business success.

In this lecture, we look at vendor management best practices and how they impact the entire IT asset lifecycle. Effective vendor management goes beyond negotiating prices—it’s about building strong partnerships, ensuring compliance, and aligning vendor performance with your organization’s goals. By applying best practices, you can create more value from your vendor relationships and reduce risks tied to procurement and asset management.

In this episode of Pastries with SREs, we tackle an observability debated topic: Do you need a Single Pane of Glass OR is OpenTelemetry a better strategy? We explore: Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

In this video, we discuss handling both old and new systems in IT environments. From legacy SNMP setups to modern telemetry, most organizations juggle multiple data sources, which can make observability feel overwhelming. We explore how to combine logs, metrics, and flow data into one system that provides actionable insights. You’ll see practical examples of simplifying scattered tools and making sense of complex, disparate information. Understanding how these different types of data work together is key to getting observability right.

As part of our mission to help developers "Start with Aiven", we built a new plugin to make working with Apache Kafka easier. The Kafka UI Connect plugin allows you to interact with your Kafka clusters directly from any JetBrains IDE (e.g., IntelliJ, PyCharm). No more juggling multiple applications!