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Tech Talk - Aligning Observability Costs with Business Value Practical Strategies

Learn how to tackle the challenges of growing telemetry data and optimize your observability model to maximize value while minimizing costs. This session will explore strategies to reduce log ingestion, centralize pipeline management, and gain visibility into metric usage to identify waste.

The business impact of Elasticsearch logsdb index mode and TSDS

The Elasticsearch storage engine team has made significant strides in improving storage efficiency and performance in Elasticsearch 8.19 and 9.1. Now that these changes are available, what impact can they have on your business? And how do you make the most of them?

Tech Talk - Holistic Visibility and Effective Alerting Across IT and OT Assets

On this Tech Talk to learn how to gain complete visibility into all hosts and their potential vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and unpatched components in a single analytics platform, adding Tenable asset and exposure risk context improves alert prioritization and joint customers use Splunk for Centralized Reporting.

How Elasticsearch Works: Documents, JSON & Index Explained

Ever wondered how Elasticsearch can search any kind of data? In this video, we break it down with a simple deck of cards analogy that makes indexing easy to understand. Each card is like a JSON document with fields and values, suit, color, number, type. Combine them and you’ve built an index, giving Elasticsearch the power to answer queries like “show me all the red cards” or “show me only the face cards.” If you can describe it, you can index it, and if you can index it, you can search it.

Visualize Logs Alongside Metrics: Complete Observability for Slow PostgreSQL Queries

When latency creeps into your app, metrics tell you that performance regressed, but logs tell you why. PostgreSQL’s slow-query logging gives you the exact statement, duration, user, and database which is perfect for hunting down missing indexes, inefficient filters, or N+1 patterns.

Caddy Webserver Data in Graylog

If you’re running Caddy Webserver on Ubuntu, Graylog now has a new way to make your access logs more actionable without tedious parsing or manual setup. The new Caddy Webserver Content Pack, available in Illuminate 6.4 and a Graylog Enterprise or Graylog Security license, delivers ready-to-use parsing rules, streams, and dashboards so you can quickly turn raw logs into structured, searchable insights.