Modern, distributed application architectures pose particular challenges when it comes to coordinating incident management. DevOps, SREs, and security teams—often spread out across separate locations and time zones, and equipped with limited knowledge of each other’s services—must work quickly to collaboratively triage, troubleshoot, and mitigate customer impact.

BGP Flowspec is one of the critical technologies gaining traction in DDoS mitigation strategies. In this article, Justin Ryburn outlines the adoption rates and best practices of this emerging and effective DDoS mitigation tool.

Here at Mezmo, we see the purpose of a telemetry pipeline is to help ingest, profile, transform, and route data to control costs and drive actionability. There are many ways to do that as we’ve previously discussed in our blogs, but today I’m going to talk about real-time alerting on data in motion, yes - on streaming data, before it reaches its destination.

We are delighted to announce the alpha release of the Elastic OpenTelemetry Distribution for Node.js. This distribution is a light wrapper around the OpenTelemetry Node.js SDK that makes it easier to get started using OpenTelemetry to observe your Node.js applications.

Observability isn’t new. But organizations are struggling to adopt mature observability practices, and the impact on business is palpable. Organizations are seeing the value of observability for their applications and infrastructure—the results of our 2024 Observability Pulse survey of 500 global IT professionals reflects that across the board.

In this fourth post in the series of "secret" elmah.io features, I want to introduce you to one of several AI features available on elmah.io. We have had machine learning features like automatic bot detection and spike identification for years. But a recent addition to the portfolio of AI features is the integration with ChatGPT to get help solving issues. In this post, I'll show you how to set it up and how it works.

Observo.ai is excited to share that we now integrate with Panther Labs, a modern SIEM built for the cloud. This enables Panther users to leverage Observo.ai’s powerful telemetry data pipeline features. Observo.ai was created to help Security and DevOps teams solve their biggest telemetry problems. Using Artificial Intelligence, Observo.ai optimizes and transforms data from any source and routes it to the destinations where it has the most value.

Scaling cloud services is a critical task for Site Reliability Engineers, and it’s a challenging one. As organizations grow, the amount of data and the number of users of it grow like crazy, pushing traditional data management methods to their limits. SREs not only have to keep everything running, they’ve got to make sure it runs smoothly, efficiently, and swiftly.

AWS is an essential part of many organizations’ tech stacks today, which is why we continue to make it easier to observe your environment in Grafana Cloud. We recently launched AWS Observability, a fully managed application for visualizing and alerting on dozens of AWS offerings. And with our latest update, we’re making it cheaper and simpler to ingest and query your AWS logs.

NET Aspire is a new type of project and set of NuGet packages that make it easier to coordinate the multiple moving parts of a cloud-native web application. Announced near the end of 2023, .NET Aspire is currently in Preview 6, so still a work in progress. We’ve just released Raygun4Aspire, our Crash Reporting client for Aspire applications.