Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The latest News and Information on Log Management, Log Analytics and related technologies.

sumologic

Top five metrics to monitor in IIS Logs

Jun 3, 2025 By David Girvin In Sumo Logic
When managing and troubleshooting IIS (Internet Information Services) web server performance, logs are a critical resource. They capture detailed information about every request and response so your team can detect issues quickly. Let’s walk through the main IIS log formats, explore a sample log file, and break down five key types of IIS metrics you should monitor.
Read Post
last9

Graylog vs ELK: Which Log Management Solution Fits Your Stack?

Jun 3, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Your app logs start simple—maybe a few print() or logging.info() calls. But in production, things get noisy. Thousands of log lines per minute, scattered across services, and it’s hard to know what matters. This is when tools like Graylog and the ELK stack help. They let you collect, search, and make sense of logs, but they do it in different ways. This guide breaks down how each one handles setup, scale, and day-to-day use.
Read Post
observiq

Unify telemetry, own your pipeline: New integrations for Windows, Network Telemetry, and Cloud Storage

Jun 2, 2025 By Adnan Rahic In ObservIQ
Today, we're expanding on the integrations front, and launching new integrations for Windows events, network telemetry, and cloud storage. Here's a quick tour of what's new and why it matters.
Read Post
graylog

Sigma Specification 2.0: What You Need to Know

Jun 2, 2025 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog
Sigma rules have become the security team equivalent of LEGO bricks and systems. With LEGO, people can build whatever they can imagine by connecting different types of bricks. With Sigma Specification 2.0 rules, security teams can create vendor-agnostic detections without being limited by proprietary log formats. In response to the Sigma rules’ popularity, the team that built them updated them in August 2024, giving security teams new capabilities.
Read Post

Service Level Objectives -- Customer Brown Bag -- May 29th, 2025

Jun 2, 2025 By Sumo Logic, Inc. In Sumo Logic
This technical session on Service Level Objectives (SLOs) will cover the fundamentals of SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, along with how to define, monitor, and optimize them for system reliability. Through hands-on demonstrations, you'll learn to set up SLOs in Sumo Logic, track performance using logs, metrics, and tracing, and configure proactive alerts for incident response. By the end, you’ll have the skills to implement and manage SLOs effectively, ensuring your services meet reliability goals while balancing performance and cost.
View Video
Sponsored Post
chaossearch

Understanding Security Log Analytics vs. SIEM for Midsized Companies Targeted by Cybercriminals

May 30, 2025 By Dave Armlin In ChaosSearch
SecOps teams at midsize companies face a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing organizational cybersecurity. Midsize companies (those with 100-999 employees and $50 million-$1 billion in annual revenue, according to Gartner) possess significant financial resources and valuable data that may be targeted by digital adversaries. But, unlike larger enterprise organizations, midsize companies can't always afford to invest heavily in the expensive security tools and dedicated IT security staff needed to prevent cyber attacks.
Read Post
uptrace

Syslog Implementation: Servers, Integration and Best Practices

May 29, 2025 By Alexandr Bandurchin In Uptrace
Syslog is a fundamental protocol for collecting messages and event data from various devices and applications across a network. Think of it as a universal language that allows your servers, routers, firewalls, and software to send their operational insights to a central logging point. Born from Unix systems, Syslog has evolved to become the industry standard, forming the backbone of effective log management and providing a unified view of your infrastructure's activity.
Read Post

Copyright © 2026 OpsMatters™. All rights reserved.