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Importance of Log Management in IT Security

Around 70% of companies experienced cyberattacks in the past year. With this increase in cyberattacks, the importance of log management in IT security has also increased over the years. That’s the reason why small and enterprise businesses have started to invest in log management tools to protect their businesses from cybersecurity breaches.

ES|QL Live: Empowering Your Data Journey

Meet ES|QL – Elasticsearch's flexible, powerful, and robust piped query language. Our next-generation piped query language and engine is designed for seamless searching, filtering, aggregation, calculation, transformation, and visualization of your data. Join Elastic and our customer CDW for an exclusive unveiling of this game-changing tool that will redefine how you engage with your data. CDW’s security team tested ES|QL in beta for its security use case, and this is your chance to hear CDW’s initial impressions of adapting to a new syntax and the impressive results achieved – so far.

Learning by Example with Cribl's New Lookup Examples Pack

In the world of data management, Cribl offers various methods to enhance data using the Lookup Function and many C.Lookup Expressions. While Cribl’s documentation is comprehensive, practical examples are often the most effective learning tools. That’s why we’ve introduced the new Lookup Examples Pack.

Traces to metrics: Ad hoc RED metrics in Grafana Tempo with 'Aggregate by'

In observability, finding the root cause of a problem is sometimes likened to finding a needle in a haystack. Considering that the problem might be visible in only a tiny fraction of millions or billions of individual traces, the task of reviewing enough traces to find the right one is daunting and often ends in failure.

OpenTelemetry vs Jaeger : Comparing Apple and Oranges

Open telemetry works with all the three signals i.e. it help in generating all the three signals while Jaeger only focuses on one signal (traces). The second key difference is Jaeger doesn't worry about generating data. It's more focused on the UI visualization long term storage of traces data while OpenTelemetry primarily focused on generating traces data.

Apica Wins at the 2023 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award

In a significant achievement in digital transformation, APICA has been honored with the prestigious Winter 2023 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award. This recognition comes from Intellyx, the pioneering analyst firm exclusively focused on digital transformation, and the trailblazing vendors spearheading this journey. The Intellyx Digital Innovator Awards are not just accolades; they are a testament to a company’s ability to stand out in an intensely competitive and innovative field.

Combining AWS and Prometheus with OpenTelemetry

In the realm of data and complex scenarios, we humans naturally gravitate towards visualizing things as entities with attributes, rather than just raw data. Consider the phrase, “The response time on our Ad Generation service has increased.” It immediately resonates with the audience supporting the service.