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observo ai

One Query, Every Answer: Visual Dashboards and Federated Search with Observo AI

Jun 9, 2025 By Janmejay Singh In Observo.ai
As security and DevOps teams grapple with rising telemetry volumes and ballooning tool costs, they’re increasingly forced into tradeoffs: index less, ingest less, search less. That might save money in the short term—but it comes at the cost of impairing long-term visibility, historical investigation, and strategic clarity. Traditional search tools are built around precision. They’re useful when you know what you’re looking for—but far less helpful when you don’t.
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mezmo

Smarter Telemetry Pipelines: The Key to Cutting Datadog Costs and Observability Chaos

Jun 9, 2025 By Mezmo In Mezmo
Log volume is exploding, costs are rising, and most teams are stuck duct-taping together short-term fixes. During our webinar, "Optimizing Log Management in Datadog: Cut Costs Without Losing Insights," we discuss how DevOps and engineering leaders are navigating the growing pains of observability, especially in environments where tools like Datadog are mission-critical but challenging to manage. Here’s a recap of the key takeaways.
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datadog

Migrate historical logs from Splunk and Elasticsearch using Observability Pipelines

Jun 9, 2025 By Micah Kim In Datadog
Migrating to a new logging platform can be a complex operation, especially when it involves both active and historical logs. Observability Pipelines offers dual-shipping capability, making it easy to route active logs to your new platform without disrupting your log management workflows. But migrating years worth of historical logs—which are critical for investigating security incidents and demonstrating compliance with applicable laws—requires a different approach.
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last9

A Complete Guide to Linux Log File Locations and Their Usage

Jun 9, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Linux log files are text-based records that capture system events, application activities, and user actions. They're stored primarily in the /var/log directory and provide essential information for debugging issues, monitoring system health, and maintaining security. This guide covers the most important Linux log files and a few detailed techniques for reading and analyzing them.
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logz.io

Top 5 Open Source Log Management Tools (and How to Choose the Right One)

Jun 8, 2025 By Jade Lassery In logz.io
Managing logs at scale is no longer just about storing text—it’s about gaining insights fast, keeping systems healthy, and troubleshooting in real time. With cloud-native architectures becoming the norm, the pressure is on for modern teams to adopt log management tools that are fast, scalable, and easy to use. But with so many options, how do you choose the right one?
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The One Where We Show You Copilot Editor

Jun 7, 2025 By Cribl In Cribl
Copilot Editor is like an AI-powered Rosetta Stone for telemetry. It helps Cribl users take raw, messy telemetry data and turn it into standardized, analytics-ready formats. The most important piece? It puts YOU in control. Our human-in-the-loop design means that users have full control over and visibility into what’s happening with their critical data, preventing AI-induced mistakes. Watch this fun demo with the AI product team to show Copilot Editor's true value to the average Cribl user!
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observo ai

Cutting SIEM Costs in Half: How BILL Modernized Their SOC with Observo AI

Jun 6, 2025 By Ricky Arora In Observo.ai
When we talk to security leaders, the theme is almost always the same: “How do we keep up with explosive telemetry growth without blowing our budget—or compromising visibility?” That’s exactly what BILL, a leader in financial operations software, was grappling with.
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splunk

From Downtime to Uptime: Monitoring Tools and Techniques for Systems, Websites, APIs, and More

Jun 6, 2025 By Joseph Nduhiu In Splunk
Recently, while visiting a friend in a local hospital, I found myself facing a frustrating distraction: trying to pay parking fees using USSD (a mobile text-based system for quick transactions). The service was either painfully slow or not working at all. I wasn’t alone. Other visitors were just as exasperated, and parking attendants stood idle, their handheld devices frozen in endless loading loops.
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Top Features of Splunk Observability Cloud for Engineers

Jun 6, 2025 By Splunk In Splunk
In this video we’ll walk you through a demonstration of Splunk Observability Cloud’s key capabilities. You’ll see how you can monitor Kubernetes cluster health in Infrastructure Monitoring, and alert on your services’ health using AutoDetect Detectors and Alerts. We’ll then take a look at traces and metrics in APM, and use Related Content to find correlated log entries of error traces. Then we’ll use AlwaysOn Profiling to troubleshoot long duration traces for our service.
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atatus

Fluentd vs Logstash: In-Depth Comparison of Two Popular Log Collectors 2025

Jun 6, 2025 By Pavithra Parthiban In Atatus
In modern observability stacks, log collection is a critical component. Among the most widely adopted logs collector are Fluentd and Logstash. Both tools are designed to collect, process, and forward logs to various destinations like Elasticsearch, Kafka, and cloud services. However, the differences between FluentD and Logstash lie significantly in their design, performance, plugin ecosystems, and user experiences.
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