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Building An Agent From First Principles

Yesterday, we officially announced Cribl Edge, a next-generation observability agent. You can find more about its features here. In this post, I am going to walk you through the journey of incepting and building this new product. Our most important core value at Cribl is “Customers First, Always.” and that involves actively listening and being on the lookout for any pains our customers might be experiencing.

Centralized Log Management and NIST Cybersecurity Framework

It was just another day in paradise. Well, it was as close to paradise as working in IT can be. Then, your boss read about another data breach and started asking questions about how well you’re managing security. Unfortunately, while you know you’re doing the day-to-day work, your documentation has fallen by the wayside. As much as people are loathed to admit it, this is where compliance can help.

Partner Amplification - Logz.io Achieves AWS Security Competency

We’ve got some outstanding news to share in the arena of security partnerships: Logz.io® Cloud-based SIEM has officially achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency! This designation within the Logging, Monitoring, SIEM, Threat Detection, and Analytics category further demonstrates Logz.io’s proven commitment to delivering best-in-class security.

How to collect metrics and logs for NGINX using the OpsAgent

The Ops agent is Google’s recommended agent for collating your application’s telemetry data, and forwarding them to GCP for visualization, alerting and monitoring. The Ops agent collates logs and a metrics collector into one single powerhouse. Some of the key advantages of using the Ops agent are outlined below.

Customers First, Always: Thanks for Making the Best Even Better

We’ve come a long way in a short time and that is thanks to you, our customers. Cribl set out to listen to our customers and use that to guide us forward. Today we’re announcing Cribl Edge, a next generation agent designed to to scale your most precious commodity; you. We’re also announcing a name change to the product formally known as LogStream. Now, as with all our releases, it doesn’t stop there. We have some upgrades that all go towards allowing you to scale.

Announcing Cribl Edge & Cribl Stream

In 2022, administrators are still managing agents which collect data for observability and security the same way they did 15 years ago: typing in configuration files by hand. A lot has changed since 2006 when Amazon announced AWS. Instead of racking and stacking servers in data centers, we’re spinning up compute resources in a variety of forms – at the click of a button, or automatically through APIs.

More Choice, Less Compromise: We're Taking You to the Edge!

It’s been a busy Winter at Cribl! Today we are officially announcing Cribl Edge, a next-generation agent that expands the scope of observability. In Edge, we’ve taken the very concept of “agent” and given it a Cribl power-up by taking our best-in-class observability pipeline technology built into Cribl Stream and moving it all the way out to edge systems.

SRE Metrics: Four Golden Signals of Monitoring

SRE (site reliability engineering) is a discipline used by software engineering and IT teams to proactively build and maintain more reliable services. SRE is a functional way to apply software development solutions to IT operations problems. From IT monitoring to software delivery to incident response – site reliability engineers are focused on building and monitoring anything in production that improves service resiliency without harming development speed.

How to Get Started with Heroku Logging

Heroku is a platform for deploying, running, and managing applications, which is written in a variety of programming languages, including Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and others. Heroku's goal is to free you up to focus on your applications rather than infrastructure management. Logging is usually included in infrastructure management. Heroku provides a high-level log maintenance tool. In this Heroku logging article, we'll learn how to get the most out of Heroku logs.