The sooner you know about a problem, the sooner you can address it, right? Imagine if you could do that in your most important apps and software. Well, that’s exactly what MTTA measures. Let’s take a look.

Fluentbit is a popular logs and metrics collector used for monitoring anything from virtual machines to containerized applications. With the rise of BindPlane OP and OpenTelemetry, it is not uncommon for organizations to begin replacing Fluentbit, or integrating OpenTelemetry with Fluentbit. An organization may have hundreds or thousands of Fluentbit agents deployed to their endpoints but they want to manage the pipeline using BindPlane OP.

As Charles highlights in his Financial Services Predictions blog, operational resilience is critical. The regulatory drive for defining, measuring and improving operational resilience is clear within Europe, outlined by EU DORA and UK FCA / PRA guidelines. The organisations who embrace this change can capitalise on real opportunities in the coming years; specifically, the opportunity to use data-driven insights to improve customer experience and proactively resolve issues before customer impact.

Thanks to regulation, legislation and the pandemic, the term ‘resilience’ has burst into the consciousness throughout the financial services industry. But why is it so important? To answer this, we are going to delve deeper into the world of Operational Resilience by exploring how it has the potential to deliver a lot more than merely regulatory compliance.

Yes, yes, it’s true: Splunk is not open source — and that’s for good reason. We do support a lot of open-source efforts, as you’ll see below. I’ll also point you to areas to try out Splunk for free and look at common reasons organization opt for open source.

Long-term storage, especially for logs, is essential to any modern observability provider. Each vendor has their own method for handling this problem. While there are numerous available solutions, let’s explore just one – DataDog – and see the benefits and limitations.

Log management turns the huge volume of raw information created as logs into something usable for an organization's DevOps, IT and security teams. When log management is done correctly, its benefits include: Let’s take a closer look at some of the benefits of log management and how they apply to specific areas.

Logs are like digital footprints or a letter that developers write to themselves for the future. They track every action or event that takes place within your software, applications and IT infrastructures. They provide important information such as when an action took place, host name, type of action, application used and more.

Log management and analysis tools provide you real-time visualization of how your users are interacting with your apps and systems. Many of these log management tools include a sophisticated visual dashboard to immediately analyze data. They also offer your DevSecOps teams deeper insights and possibilities to enhance code quality, boost productivity and reduce risks. What should the best log management tools do for your team to be successful?