Whether in personal or professional life, goals always set a direction for where you wish to go, in addition to defining the guidelines with which to reach that desired end. In addition, awareness and motivation are generated about the actions that are carried out, which allows us to focus our energies and efforts.

In a previous post, we described the technique that makes the ”most recent values” queries hundreds of times faster and has benefited many of our customers. The idea behind this technique is to progressively evaluate time-organized files until we reach the most recent values.

Web applications emit a wealth of metadata and user interaction information that’s critical to understanding user behavior. However, parsing this data to find what is most relevant to your product analytics project can be challenging—what one product analyst might find useful, another might consider unnecessary noise.

You are running a complex, mission-critical application, and you understand you need an advanced Observability solution to efficiently troubleshoot and proactively prevent issues. Yet you have a choice to make—should you choose a “Fully Managed” SaaS solution such as Datadog, Newrelic, or Dynatrace, or should you pick an Open-Source solution that you can host yourself?

Breaking down AI complexity: Your gateway to production-ready applications with Elasticsearch — the world's most downloaded vector database Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming the business landscape we’ve come to know.

In today's rapidly evolving cloud landscape, robust security measures are more critical than ever. At Elastic Security, we're excited to introduce our extended protections for cloud — a key component of our cloud detection and response (CDR) use case. This initiative seamlessly integrates open source security tools from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem with Elastic Security's powerful analytics platform.

The Sentry Unity SDK has been effective for crash reporting, including: We are confident that we have the best crash-reporting solution out there. Now we were looking towards offering some out-of-the-box insights into the game’s performance. Right out of the gate, we hit the first question: What would auto-instrumentation for Unity games look like?

We're excited to announce that AppSignal now supports Pino logs, making managing and monitoring your logging data easier than ever. By sending Pino logs directly to AppSignal, you can consolidate all your data in one place, giving you a clear overview of your app's performance for faster troubleshooting. Importantly, AppSignal now also works with Fastify 5, making it a great choice for Fastify developers looking for an APM that integrates seamlessly with their stack.

We’ve been listening to your feedback, and we’re excited to roll out the new Automatic Maintenance Resolution feature! Now, when you schedule maintenance, your service status will automatically update to “Resolved” at the scheduled end time, and any affected monitors will also switch back to “UP.” This makes managing your maintenance events even easier, without the need for manual updates.

It’s been a year since Grafana Labs announced the general availability of Grafana Beyla, our open source OpenTelemetry and Prometheus eBPF auto-instrumentation tool to help you easily get started with application observability. As a Beyla maintainer, I wanted to take a minute to reflect on what we’ve accomplished with Grafana Beyla since then, what we have learned about supporting an eBPF tool in production, and, in general, how exciting this whole journey has been.