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Dashboard Library: why some dashboards arrive ticked and others don't

Open the Dashboard Library on a Logs stack that already receives Nginx logs and a few cards come up ticked with a green Data detected badge. Others in the same pack sit there unticked. That isn't random. Before it shows you anything, the Library checks what your stack actually holds and pre-selects only the dashboards it expects to fill.

39% of Coralogix sessions are now headless

We set out to understand how customers were using Coralogix from outside the web app. Olly answers questions about a system in plain language. Coding agents query logs, examine traces, read metrics and configure the platform through the Coralogix CLI and MCP server. We wanted to see how much of this was becoming part of everyday work. In the week of 20–26 October, 39% of Coralogix sessions included Olly, the CLI or MCP.

Meet the new Explore: every question, one place

From the first alert to the root cause, without leaving the page. TL;DR: Investigating an incident is a series of quick questions, each one leading to the next. Until now, Explore made you stop between questions to translate them into syntax, switch modes or rebuild a chart. The new Explore lets you go straight from one question to the next: one workspace, any dataset, any team, any way you like to ask. Here’s what that looks like on a real night on call.

Setting up Syslog in your Papertrail trial? Here's what to send your admin

Sending server logs to Papertrail over Syslog takes one setup command, and running it needs admin access: sudo on Linux, or Administrator rights on Windows. If you started a free trial but don’t have that access here are instructions to get your logs flowing. Copy your setup command, send it to a teammate who has admin access using one of the ready-made messages below, and your logs can be streaming in Papertrail within minutes of them running the script. This post walks you through those steps.

Cribl Detect: A new way to SIEM

Cribl Detect helps security teams use an open, platform-first architecture for SIEM workflows, including compliance, detection, investigation, and response. This video explains how Cribl Detect combines telemetry pipelines, real-time detection, structured search, federated investigations, long-term retention, and open integrations.

Product Keynote: The Platform for Your Agentic Enterprise

The future of operations is predictive, unified, and AI-powered. Dive into how Splunk and Cisco help organizations unlock cross-domain insights at massive scale, provide intelligent context across security and observability, and build trust in AI with end-to-end visibility. Hear directly from product leaders on the latest innovations shaping agentic enterprises.

Welcome Keynote: Powering the Rise of the Agentic EnterpriseRise of the Agentic Enterprise

Join Jeetu Patel, Head of Product at Cisco, and Kamal Hathi, GM at Splunk, alongside a special guest, to see how organizations transform security, observability, and operations with AI workflows that are proven at scale. Discover how Splunk and Cisco bring unified visibility, trusted AI, and intelligent automation to help organizations.

Operationalizing Microsoft 365 Copilot: Compliance, security, and scale

Unmonitored AI is a massive organizational blind spot. Join Cribl's Field CISO, Ed Bailey, and Senior Product Manager, Daniel Pan to learn Cribl can help you affordably collect and store Microsoft 365 Copilot prompts and responses and share that data across your IT and Security teams to meet compliance requirements and gain real AI observability. We'll cover how to scale collection with less effort and build the AI-ready data architecture that solves today's challenges and sets you up for what's next.