KubeCon Europe 2023 will be held in Amsterdam in April, with many exciting updates and discussions to come around projects from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). That’s why I was thrilled to host Chris Aniszczyk, the CTO of the CNCF on the March 2023 episode of OpenObservability Talks. We had a wide-ranging, free-flowing conversation that touched on all things cloud native, observability and the future of our space.

Elastic Observability 8.7 introduces new capabilities that drive efficiency into the management and use of synthetic monitoring and expand visibility into serverless applications and Kubernetes deployments. These new features allow customers to: Observability 8.7 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release.

I know you’re here to talk money, and I’ll get to pricing in just a moment, I promise! Let’s first look at how we ended up in a situation where log analytics is increasingly important to help set the stage for why transparent pricing is so vital in this arena.

Log management is the processes and tools that your DevSecOps team use to collect, store and manage log data. As they constantly assess your applications and systems for performance, log analytics comes into play to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization, identify and troubleshoot problems, and monitor the health and performance of system. Looking for a proactive approach to find issues, bugs and threats? Interested in surfacing your business and user adoption insights?

There is value in the machine data (logs and events) from your infrastructure and applications. However, storing and analyzing that data to extract that value can be a big (and expensive) undertaking for organizations. With log analytics, companies like yours can better understand your log data and take action to improve reliability and increase security. Log files are produced by applications, operating systems, networks and other components of a technology stack.

Thanks to regulation, legislation and the pandemic, the term ‘resilience’ has burst into the consciousness throughout the financial services industry. But why is it so important? To answer this, we are going to delve deeper into the world of Operational Resilience by exploring how it has the potential to deliver a lot more than merely regulatory compliance.