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Cribl released LogStream Cloud to the world in the Spring of 2021, making it easier than ever to stand up a functional o11y pipeline. The service is free for up to 1TB per day and can be upgraded to unlock all the features and support with paid plans starting at $0.17 per GB so you pay for only exactly what you use. In this blog post, we’ll go over how to quickly get data flowing into LogStream Cloud from a few common log sources.

For years customers have leveraged the power of Splunk configuration files to customize their environments with flexibility and precision. And for years, we’ve enabled admins to customize things like system settings, deployment configurations, knowledge objects and saved searches to their hearts’ content. Unfortunately a side effect of this was that multiple team members could change underlying.conf files and forget that those changes ever occurred.

‍Sean Tierney is the DevOps lead at Athos, a company that's building better athletes through smart clothing and AI. Sean reinforces a DevOps state of mind across the organization by building empathy between hardware and software teams and putting the systems in place to allow them to move faster as a single unit.

One of the nicest things about Byte Buddy is that it allows you to write a Java agent without manually having to deal with byte code. To instrument a method, agent authors can simply write the code they want to inject in pure Java. This makes writing Java agents much more accessible and avoids complicated on-boarding requirements.

If you’re responsible for a significant number of Windows servers, you already understand the importance of being aware of the health and security of your environment. Unfortunately, you’re probably also aware of the tremendous amount of effort and resources required to monitor your Windows environment. Let’s take a look into why and how you should be closely monitoring your Windows server environments from a security perspective.

Apache – the technology that powers the web. I’m not sure if that is correct, but I think that we wouldn’t see the world wide web in its current shape without it. Launched in 1995 and since April 1996, it has been the most popular web server around the world. Because of handling your users’ requests, Apache serves as the front application. It is crucial to understand what your server is doing, what file users are accessing, from where they came, and much, much more.

IT is messy stuff. Enterprise applications and devices rely on a web of interdependent clouds, networks, and containers. IT operations (ITOps), development operations (DevOps), and cloud operations (CloudOps) engineers work hard to manage this mess. If they succeed, they create a stable, agile IT environment that makes their enterprise more productive. If they fail, their enterprise becomes less productive.

IT experts agree that log management and monitoring is one of the most effective ways to keep IT infrastructure performing optimally. Logs play a vital role in improving performance, enhancing security, and detecting issues. But at the same time, a lot of people don’t use logs to the best of their ability. This guide will not only introduce you to log management but also reveal which logs to track and what information they are giving to you.