Remember when you were a kid and your school put on a production of the latest grade school drama? Maybe you didn’t get the lead role, but it was fun to put on (or watch) the show. Search Sandboxes are just like that! Except you get to be the stage manager when searching data. And Search Sandboxes offer you everything you need to make it an all-star performance.

Clouds aren’t magical data farms in the sky; they’re the backbone of modern infrastructure. Whether you’re using a public cloud, private cloud, or a mix of both, migrating to cloud-based infrastructure is not just a trend; it’s a strategic move for businesses seeking agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Cloud migration—moving data, applications, and workloads to the cloud (or between clouds)—is a critical step in this transformation.

Did you know that Cribl University is Cribl’s free online training platform, offering a wealth of knowledge in the form of self-paced, video-driven, and hands-on lab learning about our products and the data industry? But, of course, you’re probably already aware of that.

OpenTelemetry is starting to gain critical mass due to its vendor neutrality and having worked in the APM space for the last five years. I can see the appeal. Using OpenTelemetry libraries to instrument your code frees you from putting vendor libraries in your codebase. The other challenge most customers face is balancing cost versus visibility. While effective, most APM solutions are costly.

“Half the time the toilet’s out of reach – the other half it’s out of order”. –Arthur C. Clarke, Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations.

As IT managers and security practitioners navigate the complex terrain of modern cybersecurity in 2024 and beyond, the importance of endpoint telemetry cannot be overstated. This sophisticated technology involves meticulously gathering and analyzing data from various network endpoints, such as personal computers, mobile devices, and the ever-growing network of IoT devices.

When we discuss observability for applications running in Kubernetes, most people immediately default to Metrics, Logs, and Traces – commonly referred to as the “three pillars.” These pillars are just different types of telemetry – signals that can be fed into observability platforms to help understand how an application behaves. But did you know that Kubernetes offers another valuable signal? When combined with the other signals, you get MELT.

Data lakes have emerged as a revolutionary solution in the current digital landscape, where data growth is at a 28% CAGR with no signs of slowing. These repositories, capable of storing vast amounts of raw data in their native format in a vendor-neutral way, offer unprecedented flexibility and scalability.

As businesses grapple with increasing data volumes, the need for practical tools to manage and use this data has never been greater. High-quality tools are great — but imagine what you could accomplish with one that made all the others in your toolbox even better? That’s exactly how we design every Cribl solution — we exist to help IT and Security teams get more out of their existing infrastructure.

As the Data Engine for IT & Security, Cribl helps organisations overcome several challenges, including : In this first blog, we will concentrate on how Cribl can help the UK public sector deal with ever-rising data volumes whilst controlling costs.