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According to the 2024 Logz.io Observability Pulse Survey, 91% of respondents said they’re actively looking for ways to reduce observability costs, and 50% want better visibility into their monitoring expenses.

Today’s distributed, cloud-native systems generate logs at a high rate, making it increasingly difficult to derive actionable insights. AI and Generative AI (GenAI) technologies—particularly large language models (LLMs)— are transforming log management tools by enabling teams to sift through this data, identify anomalies, and deliver real-time, context-rich intelligence to streamline troubleshooting.

In formal terms, OpenTelemetry is an open source framework used for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data for applications, services, and infrastructure. It provides vendor-neutral tools, SDKs and APIs for generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs to any observability backend, including both open source and commercial tools.

We’re thrilled to announce that Logz.io received a Special Mention for Best Use of AI from the 2024 O11ys Awards, a celebration of innovation and excellence in observability. The 2024 O11ys Awards recognized our AI Agent, calling it: This recognition validates our mission to simplify observability with AI, empowering teams to troubleshoot faster, optimize costs, and focus on innovation.

We’re thrilled to launch our brand-new and improved Support Help Center, designed to streamline how you interact with our support team and access the resources you need. This enhanced platform empowers users to: This is more than just a support portal—it’s a centralized hub to enhance your experience, provide solutions faster, and keep your feedback front and center in our development process. Explore our new Support Help Center for answers and assistance!

Managing modern systems requires a constant balance between operational efficiency and innovation; going a little further, maintaining seamless operations and delivering exceptional customer experiences increasingly depend on ensuring robust observability. For years, the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) has been the go-to solution for many organizations for log management and observability, offering flexibility control and an open source approach.

Complexity rules the day within the world of data systems and pipelines. A goal for any observability practice is to help reduce complexity and give users and administrators a clear view of what’s happening in any system. This is the path to unified observability, a mature system where monitoring and troubleshooting are streamlined. This has been difficult to achieve for many organizations.

As digital applications and infrastructures grow increasingly complex, managing and understanding log data has become increasingly vital in achieving practical observability, enabling organizations to detect, diagnose, and prevent issues across their systems. However, traditional log analysis methods often struggle with the volume and complexities of modern log data in cloud-native environments.

These days, one of the most important decisions that organizations can make as it relates to their observability strategy is: “How much data do we want to retain in Hot storage to ensure we have everything needed for real time analysis — without running up associated costs?”

We’re rolling out new visualization capabilities in the Explore log management interface that are available now in some accounts and will be added to all in the coming weeks and months. With these updates you can: Warm Tier: There is now a new option for log storage and access that bridges the gap between high-performance Hot storage and the low-cost Cold Tier. Reach out to your customer success team for more information.