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Cribl Search Pack for Outlook Email Activity
Email is still mission-critical, but most teams have very little visibility into what’s actually happening behind the scenes. In this video, I give a quick walkthrough of an inbox intelligence dashboard built on Cribl Search. It shows email volume, delivery health, and unusual activity at a glance, without digging through raw logs unless of course you like doing that.
Simplify the Collection Layer and Move to OTel Without the Agent Sprawl
This is blog 2 in our New Year, New Resolution Series on OTel migrations. Read the first post, "New Year, New Telemetry: Resolve to Stop Breaking Dashboards", here. Most New Year’s resolutions fail because they require a "big bang" change. If your 2026 mandate is to migrate to OpenTelemetry (OTel), the traditional approach is the definition of friction.
Logging in React Native with Sentry
Logs are often the first place dev teams look when they investigate an issue. But logs are often added as an afterthought, and developers struggle with the balance of logging too much or too little. As a seasoned developer, you may remember a time when you were asked to investigate an issue and then handed a 200 MB plaintext log file. Three hours and four Python scripts later, you would realize that the problem was in a different component.
Cribl Search Pack for Sigma Rules
Big alert. Old data. No time for a replay. In this video, learn how to run Sigma detections directly against object storage—S3, Azure Blob, or GCS—using Cribl Search. No rehydration, no re-ingest, no SIEM bill shock. Just click, run, and hunt across months or years of data with ready-to-use Sigma Packs.
Not everything that breaks is an error: a Logs and Next.js story
Stack traces are great, but they only tell you what broke. They rarely tell you why. When an exception fires, you get a snapshot of the moment things went sideways, but the context leading up to that moment? Gone. That's where logs come in. A well-placed log can be the difference between hours of head-scratching and a five-minute fix. Let me show you what I mean with a real bug I encountered recently.
Bindplane + Oodle.ai: AI-Native Observability Meets AI-Driven Telemetry Pipelines
Today, we’re excited to announce a new integration between Bindplane and Oodle.ai — combining an AI-driven, OpenTelemetry-native telemetry pipeline with an AI-native observability platform built for extreme scale. With Bindplane acting as the control plane for telemetry and Oodle.ai providing AI-powered analysis across logs, metrics, and traces, you get a single, intelligent, vendor-neutral pipeline from raw telemetry to actionable insight.
How to debug a Next.js production bug with Logs and Sentry
Stack traces tell you what broke. They rarely tell you why. In this video, Serge walks through a real Next.js production bug that only affected Firefox and Safari. The error showed up clearly in Sentry, but the stack trace alone wasn’t enough to explain what was going wrong. The missing piece turned out to be logs. You’ll see how adding logs to a Next.js API route exposed unexpected request data, how those logs connected back to traces, and how that context made the root cause obvious and easy to fix.
Cribl Search Pack for Missing Logs
Ever run a SIEM search only to see nothing for your firewall logs? In this video, we show a smarter way to detect when log sources stop sending data using Cribl Lake, Cribl Search, and Cribl Stream. Learn how to track “last seen” times, build efficient aggregations, and get real-time alerts—without burning SIEM resources or storage.
New in Bindplane: Permalinks
I’m excited to announce a new feature in Bindplane: Permalinks. Available in Bindplane Cloud right now! Permalinks will be shipped in version v1.97.0 and above in Self-hosted Bindplane. Permalinks make it easy to share a single URL that takes teammates, support engineers, or other stakeholders directly to the exact view you’re looking at. No extra navigation, no guessing, and no “can you click over here?” moments.