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OKRs, KPIs, and Metrics: Understanding the Differences

In the world of business management and performance tracking, OKRs, KPIs, and Metrics are common terms thrown around. Each plays a distinct role in helping organizations define their vision, measure their progress, and improve their performance. Let's dive deep into understanding the nuanced differences between these three concepts.

Best practices for Elasticsearch on Kubernetes | Kubecon

In this talk, Radu will delve into the world of Elasticsearch and OpenSearch within Kubernetes. In this informative snippet, we uncover the best practices for deploying, managing, and optimizing these powerful search and analytics engines in your Kubernetes environment. Whether you're a seasoned developer, a DevOps enthusiast, or a data-driven professional, this presentation offers invaluable insights that will enhance your Elasticsearch and OpenSearch deployment strategies.

Kubernetes + Cribl Edge: Because Logging and Metrics Shouldn't Be a Mystery Novel!

To fully utilize the capabilities of Kubernetes, it’s crucial to have a reliable system for gathering and organizing logs, metrics, and events. With the complex nature of container orchestration, it’s crucial to understand the significance and process behind the data generated in a Kubernetes environment at scale. Cribl Edge works seamlessly with Kubernetes and can cater to various needs.

Building the Future of Data for IT and Security

Today, Cribl surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), becoming one of the fastest companies to ever reach this milestone in under four years––an incredible achievement on our journey to building a generational company. Reaching $100 million in ARR so quickly shows that our unique approach and steadfast focus on IT and Security continues to be validated by the market.

Availability: A Beginner's Guide

Availability is the amount of time a device, service or other piece of IT infrastructure is usable — or if it’s available at all. Because availability, or system availability, identifies whether a system is operating normally and how effectively it can recover from a crash, attack or some other type of failure, availability is considered one of the most essential metrics in information technology management. It is a constant concern.

Stream your Google Cloud logs to Datadog with Dataflow

IT environments can produce billions of log events each day from a variety of hosts and applications. Collecting this data can be costly, often resulting in increased network overhead from processing inefficiencies and inconsistent ingestion during major system events. Google Cloud Dataflow is a serverless, fully managed framework that enables you to automate and autoscale data processing.

API Monitoring: A Complete Introduction

At the most basic level, application programming interface (API) monitoring checks to see if API-connected resources are available, working properly and responding to calls. API monitoring has become even more important (and complicated) as more elements are added to the network and the environment evolves, including multiple types of devices, microservices as a key part of application delivery, and, of course, the widespread move to the cloud.

Challenge Met: Adopting Intelligent Observability Pipelines

Over the last year or so, the unavoidable topic of overwhelming cost has emerged as the number one issue among today’s observability practitioners. Whether it is in conversations among end users, feedback from customers and prospects, industry chatter or the coverage of experts including Gartner, the issue of massive telemetry data volumes driving unsustainable observability budgets prevails.