If your company has multiple servers or services that create log files, reviewing them to find the causes of troubles or to find security breaches, takes up too much time. Log monitoring and event logging software is a powerful tool for solving the problem of reviewing logs and helping you with log analytics, business intelligence, and log management. It allows professionals to track the activities of users, detect changes to applications, hardware, and network connectivity, and more.

Microsoft Monitoring health and usage information is a critical maintenance task for any site or application, whether it’s running in your on-premises datacenter, hybrid or public cloud environment, or hosted environment. Today’s challenge is that enterprises still require end-to-end monitoring insights of their running (and not running) application workloads, while also knowing that they are losing ground on the physical characteristics of managing their own datacenters.

Here at Datadog, we have always strived to build monitoring tools that are robust yet flexible. We are committed to continued innovation, and we believe that when it comes to creating new solutions that complement our customers' existing workflows, our work is never done. That’s why we’re excited to announce that Timber Technologies, the company behind Vector, is joining Datadog.

Logs are automatically-generated records of events that take place within a cloud-based application, network, or infrastructure service. These records are stored in log files, creating an audit trail of system events that can be analyzed for a variety of purposes, including: Enterprise organizations use log analytics software to aggregate, transform, and analyze data from log files, developing insights that drive business decisions and operational excellence.

As promised in part 1, I’m back with a short blog about our five key technology predictions for the UK public sector this year.

We’ve all been watching closely as the Solarwinds hack, known as SUNBURST, gets its due analysis. This attack was sophisticated and rightfully should concern any company. Companies are now — or should be — considering not only what products they are using but to what attack vectors those products are exposed that unduly extend attack surfaces. Solarwinds makes great products — I’ve used them for years.

The importance of the security of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) networks is no secret (well, of course a lot of it is secret!). This is evidenced by the Department’s IT/cybersecurity budget request that annually tops $40 billion dollars. Last year’s IT and Cyberspace Activities Budget Overview perhaps said it best.

We are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of Elastic 7.11. This release brings a broad set of new capabilities to our Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions, which are built into the Elastic Stack — Elasticsearch and Kibana. This release enables customers to optimize for cost, performance, insight, and flexibility with the general availability of searchable snapshots and the beta of schema on read.

Some of the earliest memories of my career involve getting spammed by hundreds of emails from monitoring systems. After managing to find an issue, I’d scroll through endless logs trying to find obscure bugs that are impossible to recreate. I’m sure you’ve been there. I’ve spent many hours, days, and even weeks pressing “Page Down” on my keyboard trying to find a clue pointing me toward the root cause. I’m here to tell you: there’s a better way.

To understand the value of logs—those many digital records of hardware and software events—picture a big puzzle. You put all the pieces together to make sense of them. Every day the modern enterprise generates billions of logs, each capturing a user log-in, application record change, network service interruption—as well as the messages these entities send to one another.