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The latest News and Information on Log Management, Log Analytics and related technologies.

Extended protections for cloud using CNCF open source security tools

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 Top 10 Prometheus Alternatives

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring solution, it offers efficient, scalable, and flexible monitoring practices and has emerged as a trusted tool for organizations seeking insights into their systems. It’s written in Go, gathers metrics data, and stores it in a time series database. Also, Prometheus employs a robust query language, PromQL, to manipulate and analyze collected time series data, offering versatile monitoring capabilities for various systems and services.

The Ultimate Guide to AWS Logging: Tools, Types, and Techniques

AWS logs are fundamental for organizations to conduct performance analysis, troubleshooting, security monitoring, and adhere to compliance requirements. But if you’re using more than one AWS service you can quickly realize that your logs are expanding out of control across decentralized locations. Therefore it’s crucial that you can process and analyze all your AWS logs within a single centralized repository.

An Engineer's Guide to Making Sense of Log Data

In the webinar, the experts explained why a log management strategy is crucial if you want to accurately assess the health and compliance of your applications. Topics include: Cloud native technologies have made it harder to understand how systems are behaving. Logs are the answer, but they can be voluminous and complex in any environment. How do you make sense of them?

VictoriaMetrics Efficiently Simplifies Log Complexity with VictoriaLogs

Salt Lake City, Utah, 13th November 2024 – Today we’re delighted to announce the GA release of our innovative logging solution - VictoriaLogs. Our easy-to-use, open source log management solution combines a powerful query language for easy log searching with minimal resource requirements. It’s perfect for managing and analyzing large volumes of log data, especially in containerised environments such as Kubernetes.

Key Takeaways from the 2024 DORA Report

Google recently released its 2024 Cloud DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) report, bringing together a decade’s worth of trends, insights, and best practices on what drives high performance in software delivery across industries of all sizes. This year’s findings take a closer look at how DevOps teams can achieve greater resilience and efficiency by adopting AI, improving team well-being, and building powerful internal platforms. ‍

Elastic Observability 8.16: Enhanced OpenTelemetry support, advanced log analytics, and streamlined onboarding

Elastic Observability 8.16 announces several key capabilities: Elastic Observability 8.16 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release. You can also download the Elastic Stack and our cloud orchestration products — Elastic Cloud Enterprise and Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes — for a self-managed experience. What else is new in Elastic 8.16?

Elastic's redesigned navigation menu

A deeper look into our new, simplified navigation menu for Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments In recent years, the Elastic platform steadily expanded its features and capabilities to address complex and evolving customer needs. As a result, the left navigation became a vast array of over 100 menu items. While our customers deeply value this extensible toolset on a unified platform, daily users need a simple interface for quick access to commonly used tools.