Despite new technologies and telemetry formats, like Model-driven Telemetry/Streaming Telemetry and OpenTelemetry, SNMP traps continue to be a significant source of events for monitoring teams. If you’ve been in IT operations, you’ve likely had a request to parse SNMP traps into a human-readable format so that they can be analyzed, probably deduplicated, and passed to a ticketing system for triage and remediation. The challenge? SNMP traps can be excessively chatty.

Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine that provides real-time operations and scales Horizontally. This assists users in making quick and effective searches, as well as analyzing, and visualizing huge data volumes. Users commonly commend Elasticsearch for its data indexing and storage capabilities. They highlight its efficiency in indexing text data and its proficiency in managing large data sets for persistence and retrieval.

I’m so excited to share that Cribl has closed a $319M Series E round! The oversubscribed round was led by GV (Google Ventures), joined by new investor CapitalG along with participation from existing investors GIC, IVP, and CRV. This round values Cribl at $3.5 billion, up 40% from our Series D round in 2022, and includes both primary and secondary.

When Gartner publishes their annual observability industry research, it’s always exciting to find your company named among the most successful and high-profile providers in this space. That’s why Logz.io is thrilled to find itself listed as a Visionary for the third consecutive year in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms (previously known as the Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability).

As a solutions engineer, I always handle the complex challenge of collecting IT and security data. The variety of modern ephemeral systems increases the complexity of collection requirements. Cloud, PCF, and Kubernetes emit metrics, logs, and traces through methodologies like Cloud Foundry’s Nozzle, Prometheus scrapers, and OpenTelemetry collectors. I often find all of these deployed in parallel in a single enterprise environment to meet the evolving needs of IT Ops or SecOps.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a cybersecurity service offered by a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) that combines human security expertise with modern security tools to deliver managed threat detection, security monitoring, and incident response capabilities for both SMBs and enterprise clients.

The guide discusses the essential components, challenges, popular tools, and advanced techniques that define effective log aggregation.

Guide for kubectl logs with a cheat sheet. Learn to efficiently debug and monitor Kubernetes pods, from basic commands to advanced techniques.

Late last year, Datadog announced something called Flex Logs, a “more affordable” warm storage tier for log data. Designed for high-volume datasets that are infrequently queried and don't require real-time analysis, the Flex Tier offers Datadog Log Management customers a third option for data storage.

That’s the assessment of Senior DevOps Engineer and Logz.io user Armin Morattab when discussing the impact of AI on his day-to-day job. He dives deep on AI, observability, and strategies for improving workflows with Logz.io Co-founder Asaf Yigal in our webinar, AI in Observability: Real Engineers Talk Real Uses Cases.