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BindPlane Agent Resiliency

Aug 3, 2023 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
A quick video about the resiliency of your BindPlane agent showing the parameters to tweak on destinations and best collector architecture to ensure you're not losing any data. About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.
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sumologic

Automatic log level detection reduces your cognitive load to identify anomalies at 3 am

Aug 3, 2023 By Michael Baldani In Sumo Logic
Let’s face it, when that alert goes off at 2:58am, abruptly shaking you out of a deep slumber because of a high-priority issue hitting the application, you’re not 100% “on”. You need to shake the fog out of your head to focus on the urgent task of fixing the problem. This is where having the best log analytics tool can take on some of that cognitive load. Sumo Logic recently released new features specific to our Log Search queries that automatically detect log levels.
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splunk

Dark Data: Discovery, Uses, and Benefits of Hidden Data

Aug 3, 2023 By Tyler York In Splunk
Dark data is all of the unused, unknown and untapped data across an organization. This data is generated as a result of users’ daily interactions online with countless devices and systems — everything from machine data to server log files to unstructured data derived from social media. Organizations may consider this data too old to provide value, incomplete or redundant, or limited by a format that can’t be accessed with available tools.
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splunk

Data Lakes Explored: Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices

Aug 3, 2023 By Tyler York In Splunk
A data lake is a data repository for terabytes or petabytes of raw data stored in its original format. The data can originate from a variety of data sources: IoT and sensor data, a simple file, or a binary large object (BLOB) such as a video, audio, image or multimedia file. Any manipulation of the data — to put it into a data pipeline and make it usable — is done when the data is extracted from the data lake.
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logz.io

How to Tackle Spiraling Observability Costs

Aug 2, 2023 By Charlie Klein In logz.io

As today’s businesses increasingly rely on their digital services to drive revenue, the tolerance for software bugs, slow web experiences, crashed apps, and other digital service interruptions is next to zero. Developers and engineers bear the immense burden of quickly resolving production issues before they impact customer experience.

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elastic

Crafting Prompt Sandwiches for Generative AI

Aug 2, 2023 By Andrew Macri, In Elastic

Large Language Models (LLMs) can give notoriously inconsistent responses when asked the same question multiple times. For example, if you ask for help writing an Elasticsearch query, sometimes the generated query may be wrapped by an API call, even though we didn’t ask for it. This sometimes subtle, other times dramatic variability adds complexity when integrating generative AI into analyst workflows that expect specifically-formatted responses, like queries.

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Dive Deeper into your Trace and Logs Data with Query Builder - Community Call Aug 1

Aug 2, 2023 By SigNoz In SigNoz
This week for our community call we show our new Trace explorer with a GUI for creating queries, custom dashboards, and alert thresholds. Great participation from the community, thank you so much for participating. SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.
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splunk

Pipeline Efficiency: Best Practices for Optimizing your Data Pipeline

Aug 1, 2023 By Kayly Lange In Splunk
Data pipelines are the foundational support to any business analytics project. They are growing more critical than ever as companies are leaning on their insights to drive their business: 54% of enterprises said it was vital to their future business strategies. Data pipelines play a crucial role as they perform calculations and transformations used by analysts, data scientists, and business intelligence teams.
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Cribl

The Uphill Battle of Consolidating Security Platforms

Aug 1, 2023 By Nick Heudecker In Cribl

A recently conducted survey of 51 CISOs and other security leaders a series of questions about the current demand for cybersecurity solutions, spending intentions, security posture strategies, tool preferences, and vendor consolidation expectations. While the report highlights the trends around platform consolidation over the short run, 82% of respondents stated they expect to increase the number of vendors in the next 2-3 years.

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