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Uncovering Business Insights from Logs

In the world of modern business, data drives decision-making. Every interaction, every transaction, and every click generates a series of data in the form of logs. These logs, often seen as plain text records, have the potential to unlock valuable business insights when analyzed correctly. In How to Create Log-Based Metrics to Improve Application Observability, we described the process of creating log-based metrics to improve application observability using Sematext Cloud.

What is Multicloud? An Introduction

Simply defined, multicloud (or multi-cloud) describes a computing environment that relies on multiple SaaS or cloud services for different workloads within a single architecture. In a multicloud approach, organizations may use public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) for infrastructure, Microsoft Azure for platform, and Google Cloud Platform for development.

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): A Brief Introduction

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), a subset of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, comprises inter-networked devices and applications used in medical and healthcare information technology applications. IoMT devices connect patients, doctors and medical devices — including hospital equipment, diagnostic gear, and wearable technology — by transmitting information over a secure network.

Azure Monitoring: What it is and why you need it

Even before the push to the cloud, your company was a Microsoft shop. From workstations to servers, you’ve invested heavily in the Microsoft ecosystem because it gave your business all the technologies necessary for success. As part of your organization’s digital transformation strategy, Azure offered the easiest onboarding experience.

Grabbing the Datadog by the Tail

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool for information technology (IT) and DevOps teams that can be used to determine performance metrics as well as event monitoring for infrastructure and cloud services. The software can monitor services such as servers, databases, tools, and applications. Cribl Stream makes it easy to move data from anywhere, to anywhere. We take the saying to heart, and we also allow you to send our Cribl application metrics anywhere.

Building Dashboard and Dashboard Inputs in Cribl Search

This video demonstrates how to create “inputs” to Cribl Search dashboards. An Input is a control widget that we can add to our Dashboards to control how they execute. They allow the user to supply a range of inputs to customize one or many of the Searches in each of the panels on a given dashboard.

Distributed Tracing: Your Ultimate Guide

When all your IT systems, your apps and software, and your people are spread out, you need a way to see what’s happening in all these minute and separate interactions. That’s exactly what distributed tracing does. Distributed tracing is a way to tracking requests in applications and how those requests move from users and frontend devices through to backend services and databases.