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Ever spent a week wrangling log pipelines just to get your SIEM to stop screaming about missing fields? Wasted way too much time stripping out noisy events and reformatting data for analytics? You’re not the only one. If you work in Security or ITOps, you know the pain: every new data source means another round of schema headaches, more manual mapping, endless field transformations, and a quick prayer that you didn’t break something critical (or let in a flood of junk events).

Join the live stream at 11 am ET, here. Platform teams tend to start with just one, or in some cases a handful of OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collectors usually running in gateway mode. They then embrace the benefit of a vendor-neutral, standardized, telemetry collector for unified logs, metrics, and traces.

Splunk recently announced exciting updates and significant modernizations for the upcoming releases of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform. This blog is the first in a series to help prepare your organization for these changes by exploring upgrade readiness best practices. This first installment will highlight the Splunk Health Assistant Add-On, a vital tool that supplements the Splunk Enterprise Monitoring Console, designed to streamline your transition to the next version of Splunk Enterprise.

Advancing digital transformation in education through Search AI and cloud innovation We’re thrilled to share that Elastic has achieved the AWS Education ISV Partner Competency. This prestigious designation recognizes Elastic as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner that has proven expertise in delivering high-quality solutions that help education institutions support successful student outcomes while protecting security and privacy.

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.

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.