Navigating the complex terrain of IT systems, operational issues, and security breaches is no easy job, even for the seasoned CIO. And when tasked with the lofty goals of improving operational resilience, mitigating security risk, and enhancing customer experiences, dealing with the day-to-day operations is all the more challenging. Achieving these goals can often feel overwhelming, with no end to the journey in sight.

This year, Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud services provider, announced a comprehensive security solution called Amazon Security Lake. In this blog post, we will explore what Amazon Security Lake is, how it works, the benefits for organizations, and partners you can leverage alongside it to enhance security analytics and quickly respond to security events. Image source: Amazon.

In this guide, we will compare two of the leading data visualization tools based upon open-source software that are available for use for metrics, traces and log analysis. To allow new users to know exactly which solution may be best suited to their needs, we wanted to explore in more depth a comparison between OpenSearch Dashboards and Kibana across various aspects in our latest guide covering the differences between leading open-source software.

Logz.io is excited to announce Service Overview, a fast and easy way to unify telemetry data and insights across your infrastructure and applications into a single interface. Our Beta users have reported simplified observability, faster time-to-insights, and observability consolidation.

In a rapidly evolving realm of IT, organizations are constantly seeking peak performance and dependability, leading them to rely on a reliable observability platform to obtain valuable system insights. Logs vs metrics play a vital role, as any full-stack observability guide would tell you, serving as essential elements for efficient system monitoring and troubleshooting. But what are logs and metrics, exactly?

The common failure scenarios that occur in the cybersecurity world are typically assumed to be costs of doing business, but they’re actually more predictable and avoidable than you might imagine. Even if you’ve been lucky enough to avoid failed data sources or backups, a SIEM getting knocked offline, and other cybersecurity attack situations until now — in today’s day and age, they’re still inevitable.

Hey there, Cribl fans! We hope you’re ready to move into the second half of summer with a splash because we have some exciting news to share. Our latest product launch is all about enabling teams and multiple users to work together seamlessly while focusing on security, access control, and providing valuable data insights on demand. Who says you can’t have it all? Let’s dive right into the details!

Elastic APM supports OpenTelemetry on multiple levels. One easy-to understand scenario, which we previously blogged about, is the direct OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) support in APM Server. This means that you can connect any OpenTelemetry agent to an Elastic APM Server and the APM Server will happily take that data, ingest it into Elasticsearch®, and you can view that OpenTelemetry data in the APM app in Kibana®.