The Batch Processor in the OpenTelemetry project is used in both the SDKs and the OpenTelemetry Collector. What exactly is this processor, and what does it do? And, how can you use the OTLP Logs, OTLP Metrics, and OTLP Traces Functions in Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge to build batches like a boss?

Metrics are key to monitoring system health and performance but you probably are ingesting far more metrics than you will ever need or use. The issue is that popular tools in this space, such as OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, leverage node exporters to emit a plethora of metrics. OpenTelemetry tracks even the minutest details of system performance. Prometheus exporters can generate a vast array of metrics, ranging from CPU usage to disk I/O, and everything in between.

The 2024 Global Digital Trust Insights survey from PwC reports that 36% of businesses have experienced a data breach that cost more than $1 million to remediate. Cyber threats are clearly on the rise and in today’s volatile threat environment, it is a matter of when - not if - a cybersecurity incident will occur. Digital adversaries are becoming more sophisticated and relying on weak links to exploit company applications and infrastructure.

In today’s distributed work environment, understanding the geographic origin of network traffic has become more crucial than ever. As organizations adapt to remote work, IT teams face the challenge of monitoring and analyzing an expanding array of IP addresses from various locations. Graylog’s geolocation feature offers a powerful solution to this challenge, allowing teams to extract and visualize geographic information from IP addresses in their logs.

Every day, employees and leaders of enterprise IT organizations make multiple decisions that affect their company’s success or failure. To stay ahead of the competition and drive innovation, an increasing number of organizations are turning to decision intelligence (DI), a relatively new field combining data science, decision theory and artificial intelligence, to augment and improve decision-making.

Observability provides many business benefits, but comes with costs as well. Once the (not-insignificant) work of picking a platform, taking an inventory of your applications and infrastructure, and getting buyin from leadership (both from the business and engineering sides of the house) is done, you then have to actually instrument your applications to emit data, and build the data pipeline that sends that data to your observability system.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud powered with AI capabilities to enhance efficiency, scalability and innovation. Splunk, a leader in security and data observability, has been at the forefront of this transformation.

History is filled with stories of human triumph. One of the most famous such stories is that of John Henry, “The Steel Driving Man.” As the traditional American folk story goes, John Henry and his fellow workers were faced with the arrival of the steam engine, which threatened to replace their manual labor. To prove that human strength and skill could outperform the new technology, John Henry challenged the machine to a contest.

Ensuring the security of your network infrastructure is critical for all organizations, and this requires going beyond traditional network monitoring and incorporating the monitoring of network devices, such as routers, switches, and other network devices. Whilst network monitoring includes the monitoring of devices, dedicated network device monitoring is a more thorough process for guaranteeing the health and performance of your organization's network devices.

Imagine running a large company where data-driven decisions give you a competitive edge. You use a lot of business intelligence tools that tap into vast amounts of data, such as sales figures, inventories, and expenses. This analysis tells you how your company is performing. However, it does not reveal how your "company infrastructure" is performing. This crucial information comes from your systems in the form of telemetry data, such as logs and events.