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Fundamentals of a Successful Logging and Observability Strategy

Your team is responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of your organization’s critical applications and infrastructure. What keeps you up at night? Your applications are more complex, distributed and cloud-native than ever, meaning that understanding what’s happening under the hood has never been more complex than it is now. Is it system bugs, or data bottlenecks? Chasing alerts for latency or service degradation that may or may not be business-critical?

5 Ways Logz.io's Log Management UI Beats Kibana & OSD

At Logz.io, we’ve found that for most organizations observability challenges start with log management. Today more than ever, log management is a highly complex practice that involves mountains of ephemeral data, and the related obstacles are preventing people from achieving their observability goals, full stop. That’s why we designed our new log management UI to simplify the daily tasks of SREs and developers in managing logs and diving into data.

WebAssembly: The Next Frontier in Cloud-Native Evolution

Kubernetes has just reached its 10th anniversary, signifying the maturity of the containers movement. Now it’s time to explore the next frontier in cloud-native evolution: WebAssembly, a.k.a. WASM or Wasm. Moving beyond containers and Kubernetes, WASM bears the promise to revolutionize the cloud landscape with unparalleled performance, portability, and security.

Logz.io Earns G2 Badges for Easiest to Use and Easiest Setup - AGAIN!

There’s no question that achieving end-to-end observability is among the most challenging tasks facing engineering and ops teams today. A quick look back at the 2024 Observability Pulse survey throws this conclusion into stark relief as: Logz.io is committed to making observability smarter, faster, and easier — from data ingestion, to troubleshooting, to managing costs.

How Logz.io Provides Trustworthy Observability through AI

The business of observability is all about data: what you’re observing in the data, how you’re visualizing it, what it indicates about the state of your environment, and how to address issues that may occur. Creating your own perspective for observability, and understanding what you’re seeing, can be difficult.

Redis is No Longer Open Source. Is Valkey the Successor?

Redis is no longer open source. In March 2024 the project was relicensed, leaving its vast community confused. But the community did not give up, and started work to fork Redis to keep it open. On my recent OpenObservabilty Talks episode, I delved into Valkey, a prominent fork of Redis.

Real-world Observability AI: An Interactive Chat with Logz.io IQ Assistant

There’s so much hype around the use of AI in observability — but how does that translate into making tangible progress with your day-to-day tasks? At Logz.io we’ve introduced an AI-based chatbot assistant to the Open 360 platform that automatically delves into your stack, fine-tunes your workflows and enables conversation directly with your systems and data.

Your Guide to Observability Engineering in 2024

It may sound complicated and daunting, but so much of observability is about discovering the unknown unknowns in your critical systems. The capabilities of observability engineering can help you make those discoveries. Most organizations have some form of monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting, which can be adequate to a point but fall short when trying to determine the root cause of unexpected outages.

Fixing Kafka Streams Uneven Tasks Distribution at Logz.io

At Logz.io we provide an observability platform with the ability to ship logs, metrics, and traces and then interact with them using our app. LogMetrics is an integral part of our observability offering, which bridges the gap between logs and metrics. It provides the seamless conversion of one type of signal to another. It empowers our customers to gain critical insights faster while also reducing their monitoring bill.