The current landscape of what our customers are dealing with in monitoring and observability can be a bit of a mess. For one thing, there are varying expectations and implementations when it comes to observability data. For another, most customers have to lean on a hodgepodge of tools that might blend open source and proprietary, require extensive onboarding as team members have to learn which tools are used for what, and have a steep learning curve in general.

Log Monitoring is a crucial step in ensuring to know what’s happening in all your servers from a single location. Did you know Log Monitoring tools are implemented by the strategy called “defense-in-depth”? Boom!!! That’s where the log monitoring concept developed, and now we have many log monitoring tools in the market. Issues that users face in the log monitoring tool: We considered all the above points while we designed our tool.

We’re excited to announce that, as a new entrant in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines, Elastic has been recognized as a Challenger. You can download the complimentary report today. Read on to learn more about creating powerful, modern search experiences with Elastic Enterprise Search.

More than once, I’ve heard experienced software developers say that there are only two reasons to log: either you log Information or you log an Error. The implication here is that either you want to record something that happened or you want to be able to react to something that went wrong. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at logging and explore the fact that log levels are more than just black or red rows in your main logging system.