For a lot of DevOps engineers and SREs, a Grafana dashboard is often the beginning of a troubleshooting procedure. It might be an alert in Slack or a colleague pointing out anomalous system behavior. Or maybe it’s just part of your day-to-day monitoring workflow. Whatever the reason, staring at a beautiful Grafana dashboard is the starting point of what can be either a long and excruciating process, or a short and efficient one.
We’re happy to announce the release of Logz.io Reports — an easy way to set up scheduled reporting for both operational and security use cases. Kibana dashboards provide you with a window into your environment, visualizing the different signals being tracked in a beautiful mix of graphs, charts, and maps. Often used in times of crisis and as the starting point for an investigation, dashboards can also be useful as a static reporting tool for multiple use cases.
Today I wanted to write about something that’s been on my mind for the last few months. The industry spends quite a bit of time talking about observability these days and something’s been, somewhat vaguely, bothering me about it. So about a week or so ago, I spent some time figuring out what was bothering me and had some insights I would like to share.
DevOpsDays Chicago had its first event in 2014, and 6 years later, this event is still going strong with about 500 people in attendance at the UIC Forum in downtown Chicago.
August 2019 was a bad month when it came to financial services outages, with both consumers and investors faced with banking glitches that made them unable to access their accounts. Let’s take a look at the anomalies that made headlines over the last 30 days.
Elasticsearch Aggregations provide you with the ability to group and perform calculations and statistics (such as sums and averages) on your data by using a simple search query. An aggregation can be viewed as a working unit that builds analytical information across a set of documents. Using aggregations, you can extract the data you want by running the GET method in Kibana UI’s Dev Tools. You can also use CURL or APIs in your code.
In the world of information technology, data has become the fundamental currency that holds the highest value. IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) represents one of the largest and richest sources of fresh and actionable data. Many automated tools can be used to make sense of all the information that comes from day-to-day IT operations, from log to agent to wire data.
