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The latest News and Information on Log Management, Log Analytics and related technologies.

Going off-label with Grafana Loki: How to set up a low-cost Twitter analysis

The term “off-label” is used to describe when a product is being used successfully for something other than its intended purpose. It’s a quite common occurrence in the pharmaceutical industry, but it can also happen in the world of software. Grafana Loki was written as — and is marketed as — a simple, Prometheus-friendly logging backend with a very low total cost of ownership.

Getting Started with Google Cloud Logging Python v3.0.0

We’re excited to announce the release of a major update to the Google Cloud Python logging library. v3.0.0 makes it even easier for Python developers to send and read logs from Google Cloud, providing real-time insights into what is happening in your application. If you’re a Python developer working with Google Cloud, now is a great time to try out Cloud Logging! If you're unfamiliar with the `google-cloud-logging` library, getting started is simple.

How to monitor Amazon Kinesis

We live in a world that becomes more connected with each passing day. Public cloud hosts like Amazon Web Services (AWS) provide platforms with a wide array of capabilities that quickly scale based on demand. As a result, we’ve seen an explosion of new applications and services that continue to change our daily lives for the better. Data is a critical component of all of these systems. They can ingest vast amounts of data, process or transform it, and then pass it on.

A look at how the U.S. Department of Defense deploys the Grafana stack

In September 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Iron Bank formally authorized Grafana, Grafana Enterprise, and Grafana Loki, allowing the 100,000 employees and contractors who work on DoD software, both classified and unclassified, to easily select and immediately deploy Grafana Labs software without additional approvals and security certifications. In our first-ever government session at ObservabilityCon 2021, former U.S.

Integrating Log Analytics in Serverless360

Recently we launched features to provide support for Log Analytics in Serverless360. Log Analytics workspaces are used by a lot of different features within the Azure Monitor stack and by providing the ability to link a Log Analytics Workspace to a Business Application in Serverless360 we see that it provides a way you can allow a support user the ability to view and run queries against your log data without needing to be an Azure Expert.

Optimized Security Traffic Mirroring Examples - Part 1

You have to capture everything to investigate security issues thoroughly, right? More often than not, data that at one time was labeled irrelevant and thrown away is found to be the missing piece of the puzzle when investigating a malicious attacker or the source of an information leak. So, you need to capture every network packet.

What Challenges Does a "Single Pane of Glass" Bring to Enterprise Data?

If I had a penny for each time someone asked for a single pane of glass view across my 20 years in the application monitoring (now observability) space, and I would be retired instead of writing this blog. But, on the other hand, I’d be in big trouble if I paid out each time we failed we finished that ask.

How to Get Started with ChaosSearch

ChaosSearch activates your cloud object storage for analytics at scale via multi-API access, with no data movement, no sharding nor re-indexing, and no data retention trade-offs. To help engineers and IT leaders experience the power of ChaosSearch for themselves, we’ve made it easier than ever to get started with our free trial experience.

10 tips for log shipping using Fluentd

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies data collection and consumption. It has different types of plugins that retrieve logs from external sources, parse them, and send them to log management tools like Site24x7 AppLogs. tail, forward, udp, tcp, http, syslog, exec, and windows_eventlog are common input plugins.