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Navigating digital disruptions: Lessons from the Microsoft outage

The recent Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage serves as a stark reminder of the interconnectedness and fragility of our digital infrastructure. What began as a seemingly isolated issue with a software update rapidly escalated into a widespread disruption, affecting businesses across multiple sectors. The incident highlights the potential consequences of software errors, particularly those that impact core system components.

Elastic vs Splunk [Detailed Comparison 2024]

Elasticsearch and Splunk are two leading solutions renowned for their capabilities in processing, analyzing, and visualizing large datasets in real-time. Both platforms have carved out significant roles in the fields of data analytics and log management, each offering unique features tailored to different needs. This article aims to provide a comprehensive comparison of Elasticsearch and Splunk, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, and introducing Uptrace as a compelling alternative.
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What's new in Avantra 24.2

It's my pleasure to announce the release of Avantra 24.2. The second update of Avantra 24, building upon 24.1 which brought performance and customer requested bug fixes, 24.2 brings new innovations and enhancements to our Avantra platform. With over 300 changes in our development management system, Avantra 24.2 feels like a major release to us and we have something new everywhere you look. Let's dive deeper into the new features.
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Incidents are lessons, not failures

Delivering digital operations excellence - DevOps, incident management, and keeping organisations running - is a constant challenge. As customer digital expectations rise, so do the complexities of the tech stack and cloud services integrations. But to insist on 100% uptime and rush through incident management without taking learnings into account creates a poor culture that can damage the ability of the DevOps team. This is not how a business creates resilient infrastructure and high-performing teams.

Grafana Loki vs. ELK Stack for Logging: A Comprehensive Comparison

With the increasing complexity of modern applications, log management solutions have become synonymous with troubleshooting, monitoring, and ensuring application reliability. Moreover, choosing the right tools can significantly impact your application’s performance, efficiency, and overall operational costs. Two powerful tools that often come up in these discussions are Grafana Loki and the ELK Stack (consisting of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).