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This Month in Datadog: DASH 2024 recap, featuring LLM Observability, Log Workspaces, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog. This month, we’re recapping our flagship conference, DASH.

See Your Structured Logs in the Explore Data tab

There's a new way to flip through your data in Honeycomb, released this week! It's super for looking at structured logs. It's called: Explore Data. Get directly at the logs, spans, events, or metrics that power the fast analysis you can do with Honeycomb. See all the fields, the whole variety of values — now ordered by timestamp, with pagination. Modify your query and graphs right from the data table. It's all connected!

Dynamic Application Security Testing at Cribl

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) is a type of security testing that actively exercises and inspects a web application for security vulnerabilities. A DAST scanner sends an assortment of payloads to the target application, typically through HTTP requests for web applications, then analyzes the responses and behavior to detect vulnerabilities. DAST is language and framework agnostic, allowing for security scans against any web application with careful configuration.

Install The Splunk Distribution of OTel Collector in K8s with Helm

In this video, I’ll show you how to install the Splunk Distribution of the OTel Collector using a Helm Chart. We’ll walk through constructing the necessary Helm commands using the K8s Integration Wizard in Splunk Observability Cloud, and then deploy the collector to a cluster. We’ll then verify that the cluster and its services are being monitored in Observability Cloud’s Kubernetes Navigators, and then briefly walk through the values.yaml file of the Helm chart as well as the Otel Collector’s configuration.

Elastic vs Splunk [Detailed Comparison 2024]

Elasticsearch and Splunk are two leading solutions renowned for their capabilities in processing, analyzing, and visualizing large datasets in real-time. Both platforms have carved out significant roles in the fields of data analytics and log management, each offering unique features tailored to different needs. This article aims to provide a comprehensive comparison of Elasticsearch and Splunk, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, and introducing Uptrace as a compelling alternative.

Grafana Loki vs. ELK Stack for Logging: A Comprehensive Comparison

With the increasing complexity of modern applications, log management solutions have become synonymous with troubleshooting, monitoring, and ensuring application reliability. Moreover, choosing the right tools can significantly impact your application’s performance, efficiency, and overall operational costs. Two powerful tools that often come up in these discussions are Grafana Loki and the ELK Stack (consisting of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).

Why Your Telemetry(Observability) Pipelines Need to be Responsive

At Mezmo, we consider Understand, Optimize, and Respond, the three tenets that help control telemetry data and maximize the value derived from it. We have previously discussed data Understanding and Optimization in depth. This blog discusses the need for responsive pipelines and what it takes to design them.

Understanding Security Log Analytics vs. SIEM for Midsized Companies Targeted by Cybercriminals

SecOps teams at midsize companies face a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing organizational cybersecurity. Midsize companies (those with 100-999 employees and $50 million-$1 billion in annual revenue, according to Gartner) possess significant financial resources and valuable data that may be targeted by digital adversaries.