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AWS Elasticsearch Pricing: Getting Cost Effective Logging as You Scale

AWS Elasticsearch is a common provider of managed ELK clusters., but does the AWS Elasticsearch pricing really scale? It offers a halfway solution for building it yourself and SaaS. For this, you would expect to see lower costs than a full-blown SaaS solution, however, the story is more complex than that.

Observability 101: Terminology and Concepts

When I first started following Charity on Twitter back in early 2019, I was quickly overwhelmed by the new words and concepts she was discussing. I liked the results she described: faster debugging, less alert fatigue, happier users. Those are all things I wanted for my team! But I was hung up on these big polysyllabic words, which stopped me from taking those first steps toward improving our own observability.

Monitoring Google Cloud with the Elastic Stack and Google Operations

Google Operations suite, formerly Stackdriver, is a central repository that receives logs, metrics, and application traces from Google Cloud resources. These resources can include compute engine, app engine, dataflow, dataproc, as well as their SaaS offerings, such as BigQuery. By shipping this data to Elastic, you’ll get a unified view of the performance of resources across your entire infrastructure from cloud to on-prem.

Investigative analysis of disjointed data in Elasticsearch with the Siren Platform

At Siren, we build a platform used for “investigative intelligence” in Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Financial Fraud. Investigative intelligence is a specialisation of data analytics that serves the needs of those that are typically hunting for bad actors. Such investigations are the primary focus of law enforcement and intelligence, but are also critical to uncovering financial crime activities and for threat hunting in cybersecurity.

Detecting & Preventing Ransomware Through Log Management

As companies responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with remote work, cybercriminals increased their social engineering and ransomware attack methodologies. Ransomware, malicious code that automatically downloads to a user’s device and locks it from further use, has been rampant since the beginning of March 2020. According to a 2020 report by Bitdefender, ransomware attacks increased by seven times when compared year-over-year to 2019.

Logging Golang Apps with ELK and Logz.io

The abundance of programming languages available today gives programmers plenty of tools with which to build applications. Whether long-established giants like Java or newcomers like Go, applications need monitoring after deployment. In this article, you will learn how to ship Golang logs to the ELK Stack and Logz.io. It’s usually possible to get an idea of what an application is doing by looking at its logs. However, log data has a tendency to grow exponentially over time.

Can Distributed Tracing Replace Logging?

Logging has been around since programming began. We use logs to debug issues and understand how software works at the code level. After logging and debuggers, profilers are a dev’s best friend when writing code and may run in production with limits to reduce overhead. As we distributed architectures — making systems more complex — centralized log aggregation was soon necessary. At that point, we had to analyze this data. Hence, log analytics technologies were born.

Gauge the effectiveness of your DevOps organization running in Google Cloud

Many organizations aspire to become true, high-functioning DevOps shops, but it can be hard to know where you stand. According to DevOps Research and Assessment, or DORA, you can prioritize just four metrics to measure the effectiveness of your DevOps organization—two to measure speed, and two to measure stability.

Introducing The Amazon Connect App for Splunk

We’ve seen quite a bit of change this year as businesses have had to pivot to accelerating their digital transformation strategy, and placing even more emphasis on leveraging technology as a competitive differentiator. Most have continued to stress the importance of maintaining excellent customer relationships through their contact centers, but the playing field has changed as they now have to tap into data for insights that may have normally been gleaned through an analog approach.