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Nginx, a widely used web server and reverse proxy, maintains two crucial logs that provide valuable insights into its performance and user interactions: the access log and the error log. These logs play a pivotal role in monitoring and troubleshooting web server activities. The access log records every request made to the server, capturing details such as the requested URL, client's IP address, response status code, and user agent.

One of the inherent challenges you'll face when working with Kubernetes is that a typical cluster includes many resources that produce telemetry data. Because producing and moving telemetry data consumes resources, you can end up in situations where different workloads are competing for the resources necessary to manage telemetry data.

Spoiler alert: it’s great! Elastic Security has been making waves among busy security analysts everywhere with the launch of Elastic AI Assistant. Whether it’s synthesizing alert details and suggesting next steps, or the recent addition from Elastic 8.11 to generate ES|QL queries from natural language, there’s a lot to love about Elastic AI Assistant for security efforts.

There’s no doubt AI will radically reimagine the way we live, work and interact. It will empower new ways to solve business challenges and deliver customer value, but such a widespread impact requires a holistic approach. Building AI responsibly is one thing, but embedding trust into every aspect of our AI strategy is another entirely – and that’s what Splunk sets out to do.

As the Data Engine for IT & Security, Cribl helps organisations overcome several challenges, including : In this first blog, we will concentrate on how Cribl can help the UK public sector deal with ever-rising data volumes whilst controlling costs.

Elastic® Observability 8.12 announces general availability (GA) for the AI Assistant, Service Level Objectives (SLO), and Mobile APM support: Elastic Observability 8.12 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.

In the labyrinth of IT systems, logging is a fundamental beacon guiding operational stability, troubleshooting, and security. In this quest, however, organizations often find themselves inundated with a deluge of logs. Each action, every transaction, and the minutiae of system behavior generate a trail of invaluable data—verbose, intricate, and at times, overwhelming.

As data volumes continue to grow and observability plays an ever-greater role in ensuring optimal website and application performance, responsibility for end-user experience is shifting left. This can create a messy situation with hundreds of R&D members from back-end engineers, front-end teams as well as DevOps and SREs, all shipping data and creating their own dashboards and alerts.

The Elastic APM K8s Attacher lets the Elastic APM agent auto-attach to the application in your pods by adding just one annotation to your deployment The Elastic® APM K8s Attacher allows auto-installation of Elastic APM application agents (e.g., the Elastic APM Java agent) into applications running in your Kubernetes clusters. The mechanism uses a mutating webhook, which is a standard Kubernetes component, but you don’t need to know all the details to use the Attacher.