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What is Istio Service Mesh, and Do I Need It?

Development teams build modern applications using microservice architectures. Individual services are built and maintained by separate teams, and then these services are combined using container-based orchestrators to comprise a complete product offering. Microservices are a standard development method because they allow teams to iterate releases, providing ongoing new customer-facing features and bug fixes without needing to redeploy an entire platform or app.

How Logz.io Uses Observability Tools for MLOps

Logz.io is one of Logz.io’s biggest customers. To handle the scale our customers demand, we must operate a high scale 24-7 environment with attention to performance and security. To accomplish this, we ingest large volumes of data into our service. As we continue to add new features and build out our new machine learning capabilities, we’ve incorporated new services and capabilities.

Bridge Your Data Silos to Get the Full Value from Your Observability and Security Data

In my work as a technical evangelist at Cribl, I regularly talk to companies seeing annual data growth of 45%, which is unsustainable given current data practices. How do you cost effectively manage this flood of data while generating business value from critical data assets?

How to track AWS costs with the AWS Cost Explorer app for Sumo Logic

From Sumo Logic’s inception over a decade ago, we made a strategic bet to go all in with Amazon Web Service (AWS). Today, many of our customers rely on Sumo Logic to gain unified visibility into their growing number of AWS services, cut troubleshooting time and unlock comprehensive root cause analysis for complete issue resolution.

Collect GitHub audit logs and scanning alerts with Datadog

For most organizations, GitHub is mission critical. Your GitHub repositories likely also contain some of your organization’s most sensitive data. GitHub provides tools to help you protect and govern this data, with tools such as audit logs, code scanning alerts, and secret scanning alerts. However, analyzing these logs and alerts through GitHub’s UI can be challenging. For example, looking for trends in your code scanning alerts over time through GitHub’s UI is just not possible.

Where Are You In Your Observability Journey?

Observability is the ability to see and understand the internal state of a system from its external outputs. Logs, Metrics, and Traces, collectively called observability data, are three external outputs widely considered to be three pillars of observability. Now more than ever, organizations of all sizes must employ the necessary processes and technologies to harness the power of their data and make it more actionable.

Q&A from Our Recent Observability Webinar

Earlier this month I hosted the “Everything You’ve Heard About Observability is Wrong (Almost)” webinar– thanks to all of you who attended. I wanted to follow-up with the attendees as well as those who were not able to join. As promised, it wasn’t the same old Observability presentation that we have grown accustomed to you know, all marketing with little value.

How to Enrich Logs and Metrics with OpenTelemetry Using BindPlane OP

Data enrichment is the process of adding additional context or attributes to telemetry data at the source that increases its value during analysis. OpenTelemetry, a collaborative open source telemetry project with the largest organizations in the observability space, can be configured to enrich logs and metrics from dozens of sources. This blog will show you the basics of how to use BindPlane OP to easily deploy and configure OpenTelemetry to enrich data from a source.

How to Tail Kubernetes Logs: Using the Kubectl Command to See Pod, Container, and Deployment Logs

Logs are a critical aspect of any production workload, as they give you insight into what is happening in your system and tell you which components may be having issues. The traditional method of looking at logs involves basic Linux commands like tail, less, or sometimes cat.