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At the beginning of every successful data exploration journey, a query is constructed. So, with this latest Grafana release, we are proud to introduce several new features aimed at improving the Grafana Loki querying experience. From query expression validation to seeing the query history in code editor and more, these updates are sure to make querying in Grafana even more efficient and intuitive, saving you time and frustration.

Any software application or a system can have bugs and issues in testing or production environments. Therefore, logging is essential to help troubleshoot issues easily and introduce fixes on time. However, logging is useful only if it provides the required information from the log messages without adversely impacting the system’s performance. Traditionally, implementing logging that satisfies these criteria in Java applications was a tedious process.

Modern, high-scale applications can generate hundreds of millions of logs per day. Each log provides point-in-time insights into the state of the services and systems that emitted it. But logs are not created in isolation. Each log event represents a small, sequential step in a larger story, such as a user request, database restart process, or CI/CD pipeline.

Observability has become a critical part of the digital economy and software engineering, enabling teams to monitor and troubleshoot their applications in real-time. Properly managing logs, metrics, traces, and events generated from your applications and infrastructure is critical for observability. A telemetry pipeline can help you gather data from different sources, process it, and turn it into meaningful insights.

Cloud infrastructure and application monitoring dashboards are critical to gaining visibility into the health and performance of your system. But what are the best metrics to monitor? What are the best types of visualizations to monitor them? How can you ensure your alerts are actionable? We answered these questions on our webinar Build the Ultimate Cloud Monitoring Dashboard.

What are some common problems that can be detected with the handy router logs on Heroku? We’ll explore them and show you how to address them easily and quickly with monitoring of Heroku from SolarWinds Papertrail. One of the first cloud platforms, Heroku is a popular platform as a service (PaaS) that has been in development since June 2007.

In the world of software engineering, monitoring and logging are two essential processes that help developers keep track of the performance and behavior of their applications. To facilitate this process, several logging formats have been developed over the years, including the Common Event Format (CEF). In this blog post, we will take a closer look at what the Common Event Format is, how it works, and why it is important.