Fortinet FortiGate firewalls are crucial network security devices that help manage and protect your network by monitoring and controlling incoming and outgoing traffic. They do this based on a set of predetermined security rules. The logs generated by FortiGate firewalls are rich with information about network activities and security events, making them indispensable for both security and DevOps teams in enterprises.

Splunk is a powerful unified security and observability tool that analyzes data and logs. Splunk allows you to monitor and visualize data in real-time. It analyzes machine-generated data and logs through a web interface. It was acquired by Cisco in a $28 billion deal. While Splunk is a powerful platform, it might not suit your needs. In this post, we discuss 11 top Splunk alternatives that you can consider. Splunk provides a wide range of tools for analyzing and visualizing your data fast and at scale.

Monitoring all of your organization’s logs can be challenging particularly when these logs are generated by various systems, applications, and devices, often in a variety of different formats. As well as this, the sheer amount of logs produced can be overwhelming, sifting through vast amounts of log data to find relevant information becomes time-consuming and inefficient. This highlights the need for a centralized log management that can alleviate these difficulties.

Redis is no longer open source. In March 2024 the project was relicensed, leaving its vast community confused. But the community did not give up, and started work to fork Redis to keep it open. On my recent OpenObservabilty Talks episode, I delved into Valkey, a prominent fork of Redis.

Welcome to the Inside Elastic blog series, where we showcase Elastic's internal operations solving real-world business challenges. This specific series will shed light on our journey to integrate generative AI into our customer success and support operations, providing you with a behind-the-scenes look at our process. We’re blogging about this capability as we’re building it, and we’re excited for you to join the ride!

In today's digital age, data is the lifeblood of modern organizations — and the US government is no exception. As agencies grapple with the ever-increasing volume and complexity of data, it is imperative to adopt a standardized approach to monitoring, analyzing, and understanding the behavior of complex IT systems. This is where OpenTelemetry, an open-source observability framework, comes into play.

We’re already halfway through 2024, and thus far, it’s been an eventful year: Swifties won the Super Bowl, CriblCon happened at not the real Caesar’s Palace, and we witnessed both a solar eclipse and a Drake diss track. Whether you’re a long-time Cribl customer or are new to our Community, we want to make sure you’re always informed of what’s the latest and greatest with Cribl’s suite of products.

Bolster your organization’s observability and security capabilities on one platform with AI, anomaly detection, and enhanced attack discovery Organizations in today’s digital landscape are increasingly concerned about service availability and safeguarding their software from malicious tampering and compromise. The traditional security and observability tools often operate in silos, leading to fragmented views and delayed responses to incidents.