As an architect at SolarWinds, it’s essential to work with our own monitoring tools as a form of quality control and source for innovation. As one of the largest players in the IT monitoring and management world, we’re always thinking about ways to make it seamless for customers to work across our suite of tools. One of those tools I’ll focus on today is SolarWinds® Loggly®—our log management and analytics product, which is also a part of our APM integrated experience.

If you attended.conf21, or followed any Splunk blogs by Lizzy Li for the past year, then you likely have heard of Splunk Dashboard Studio — our new built-in dashboarding experience included in Splunk Enterprise 8.2 and higher and Splunk Cloud Platform 8.1.2103 and higher. With new, beautiful visualizations and the ability for more visual control over the dashboard, our customers and Splunkers alike have been creating beautiful and insightful dashboards to turn data into doing.

Log archiving is the process of storing all kinds of logs (application, system, or monitoring) from across a multitude of systems in a long-term storage solution like S3. Securely collecting and keeping logs is crucial for many businesses, and they have to do it effectively and with minimal supervision.

As an industry analyst at Gartner, we would often discuss whether people were in a centralized or decentralized cycle. In business, it’s normal to investigate options for creating innovation and moving quickly, or focus on reducing cost and optimizing teams and technologies.

In April 2021, Splunk launched Splunk Cloud on Google Cloud. Since then, a large and growing number of integrations, applications, tools, and solutions have been created to enable or enhance use cases across data protection, productivity, safer remote working and other security visibility needs. We’ve highlighted a few of the more noteworthy additions below for any current or prospective users of Splunk Cloud on Google Cloud.

SREs and Devs are used to solving problems even when an awkward or inefficient way is the only way. In AppScope 1.0, SREs and Devs have a new alternative to standard methods, that the AppScope team thinks will make that problem-solving a lot more fun. We in the AppScope team constantly hear firsthand about life in the SRE trenches. For this blog, we “interview” a fictional SRE/Dev whose thoughts and comments are a mash-up of things we’ve heard from real people we know.

With the exponential rise in cybercrimes in the last decade, cybersecurity for businesses is no longer an option — it’s a necessity. Fuelled by the forced shift to remote working due to the pandemic, US businesses saw an alarming 50% rise in reported cyber attacks per week from 2020 to 2021. Many companies still use outdated technologies, unclear policies, and understaffed cybersecurity teams to target digital attacks.

As you’re settling in with your Monday morning coffee, your email pings. The subject line reads, “Documentation Request.” With the internal sigh that only happens on a Monday morning when compliance is about to change your entire to-do list, you remember it’s that time of the year again. You need to pull together the documentation for your external auditor as part of your annual ISO 27000 and ISO 27001 audit.

Log messages - also known as event logs, audit records, and audit trails – document computing events occurring in IT environments. Generated or triggered by the software or the user, log messages provide visibility into and documentation of almost every action on a system. So, with all that in mind, let’s explore all the biggest log management challenges of modern IT and the solutions for these problems.

Today it is even easier to capture logs in your Java applications. Developers can get more data with their application logs using a new version of the Cloud Logging client library for Java. The library populates the current executing context implicitly with every ingested log entry. Read this if you want to learn how to get HTTP requests and tracing information and additional metadata in your logs without writing a single line of code.