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

Log Less, Achieve More: A Guide to Streamlining Your Logs

Businesses are generating vast amounts of data from various sources, including applications, servers, and networks. As the volume and complexity of this data continue to grow, it becomes increasingly challenging to manage and analyze it effectively. Centralized logging is a powerful solution to this problem, providing a single, unified location for collecting, storing, and analyzing log data from across an organization’s IT infrastructure.

Evaluating New Tools with Cribl

Discover how Cribl's suite of products can be utilized to assess security and analytics tools, thereby reducing the duration of POVs and simplifying the process of tool migrations. Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, empowers organizations to transform their data strategy. Customers use Cribl's suite of products to collect, process, route, and analyze all IT and security data, delivering the flexibility, choice, and control required to adapt to their ever-changing needs.
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5 Guiding Principles of Digital Business Observability

Modern data-driven organizations are synergizing operations observability, business intelligence, and data science with digital business observability programs that break down data silos, increase productivity, and drive innovation. Digital business observability combines IT and business data with cutting-edge data science techniques, enabling deeper analysis and unlocking valuable insights that propel innovation across use cases from sales and marketing to product design and financial operations.

Exploring Splunk Alternatives: Deep Dive into Log Analysis

Splunk is a powerful and widely used software platform designed for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data, including logs, events, and other forms of structured and unstructured data. Originally developed for IT operations and log management, Splunk has expanded its capabilities to address a broader range of use cases across various industries.

Optimizing APM Costs and Visibility with Cribl Stream and Search

OpenTelemetry is starting to gain critical mass due to its vendor neutrality and having worked in the APM space for the last five years. I can see the appeal. Using OpenTelemetry libraries to instrument your code frees you from putting vendor libraries in your codebase. The other challenge most customers face is balancing cost versus visibility. While effective, most APM solutions are costly.

Major Hospital System Cuts Azure Sentinel Costs by Over 50% with Observo.ai

A large North American hospital system saw rapid increases in its Microsoft Azure Sentinel SIEM expenses primarily due to the escalating growth of security telemetry data. Their primary data sources were Fortinet Firewall logs, Windows Event Logs, Active Directory, Domain Controller, and DNS logs.

Up Your Observability Game With Attributes

Splunk Observability Cloud includes powerful features which automatically identify patterns within your data to surface trends. The resulting insights tell you why some customers aren’t getting an optimal experience from your application, and how you can improve it. Unlocking these features requires attributes to be included with your application traces. But how do you know which attributes are the most valuable for your application and business?