As an IT operations manager, you spend a lot of your time mitigating service outages and service level risks. You worked diligently to get the right people, products, processes, and partners in place to meet your goals. You managed to ensure continued uptime. You’ve reduced the number of tickets and the cost per ticket. And for your efforts, you’re rewarded with managing your company’s cybersecurity program. The problem? You’re not a security specialist.

Losing track of communication between applications or code has become a problem with the tech world growing more into supporting Serverless cloud architectures and allowing the developer to maintain, upgrade and update these services. One might say that services and code are becoming more loosely coupled, allowing code to run and execute in silos. Let's take an AWS Lambda function as an example.

Metrics storage engines must be specially engineered to accommodate the quirks of metrics time-series data. Prometheus is probably the most popular metrics storage engine today, powering numerous services including our own Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring. But Prometheus was not enough for Slack given their web-scale operation. They set out to design a new storage engine that can yield 10x more write throughput, and 3x more read throughput than Prometheus! In February 2022 Suman Karumuri, Sr.

Elastic released a major version of its platform on February 10, 2022. Version 8.0.0 is the latest major version. There has already been a new minor release to version 8.1.0, and there are anticipated minor and patch releases coming as Elastic rolls out new features and fixes. The latest release is the first significant revision since April 2019, when version 7.0.0 was generally available. Users can find a complete list of release notes on the Elastic website.

I’ve been in the log data analytics space for years, and I have loved seeing the technology and methodologies change and evolve. One of my favorite changes has been the emergence of index-less solutions, and Humio has a great solution here. If you haven’t heard of Humio, you should check out their index-less log management solution for yourself (free up to 16 GB/day too).

I’m very excited to tell you all about the latest Grafana Loki installment, 2.5! A huge amount of work, nearly 500 PRs, has gone into Loki between v2.4 and now. The major themes for this release are improved performance, continuing ease of operations, and more ways to ingest your logs. I usually find myself the most excited about performance improvements, so let’s start there.