Our annual DevOps Pulse identifies and tracks points of interest and emerging trends throughout the tech industry. The 2020 DevOps Pulse was our biggest ever with over 1,000 respondents. This year, we put an emphasis on cloud-native technology adoption and adaptation to architecture, applications, and observability technologies. However, we would be remiss not to trail and track how DevOps pros and their teammates are dealing with the other major events of the year.

Hi folks, Ward Bekker here from the Solutions Engineering team. I’ve just published a video on the new Loki 2.0 release that I’m excited to share with you. The Loki team announced the brand-new Grafana Loki 2.0 release at last week’s ObservabilityCON conference. It’s an exciting, feature-packed release. Loki’s slogan — like Prometheus, but for logs — is more true than ever before.

Elastic on Azure gives you the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, Elastic Security as well as the Elastic Stack. You can quickly and easily search your environment for information, analyze data to observe insights, and protect your technology investment. Elastic Cloud lets you deploy your way, whether as a managed service, or with orchestration tools you manage in Azure. You can easily get started with Elastic Cloud on Azure through our listing page on the Azure Marketplace.

In this lesson, we’ll learn how we can use Elasticsearch Hadoop to process very large amounts of data. For our exercise, we’ll use a simple Apache access log to represent our “big data”. We’ll learn how to write a MapReduce job to ingest the file with Hadoop and index it into Elasticsearch.

Prometheus is the cornerstone of many monitoring solutions, and sooner or later, prometheus federation will appear on your radar. A well monitored application with flexible logging frameworks can pay enormous dividends over a long period of sustained growth. However, once you begin to scale your prometheus stack, it becomes difficult to keep up with your application’s demands. Prometheus is an extremely popular choice when it comes down to collecting and querying real-time metrics.

Modern day Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tooling enterprise security technology combine systems together for a comprehensive view of IT security. This can be tricky, so we’ve put together a simple SIEM tutorial to help you understand what a great SIEM provider will do for you. A SIEM’s responsibility is to collect, store, analyze, investigate and report on log and other data for incident response, forensics and regulatory compliance purposes.

Availability and quality are the biggest differentiators when people opt for a service or product today. You should be aware of the impact of your customers alerting you to your own problems, as well as how to stop this from becoming the norm. To make sure you don’t become an organization known for its bugs, understanding the organizational changes required to deliver a stable service is key.