Apache Kafka® is one of the most popular streaming and messaging platforms, commonly used in a pub-sub (publish-subscribe) model, where consumer software applications send data via messages that producer software applications can consume. Teams use Kafka for a variety of use cases, including monitoring user activity, sending notifications, and concurrently processing streams of incoming data such as financial transactions.

Last year we published a popular paper on how to calculate the true cost of an Elasticsearch, or ELK (for Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack environment. The paper helps readers calculate their overall annual cost of ownership for their ELK environment, and reveals how the cost burden of ELK is much higher than anticipated for most customers. That paper clearly hit a nerve — it’s been, by far, our most downloaded piece of content.

Why is it that when IT has to manage a virtual desktop environment, their job becomes infinitely harder? If you were to poll every major enterprise IT department, there’s always one team (or person) that’s ultimately held accountable for the organization’s Digital Employee Experience.

You may or may not have heard of Google Core Web Vitals, but the importance of getting them right for your website is like Everest for website owners right now. So what are the Core Web Vitals and what should you do to make sure my website meets them? Google Core Web Vitals consist of 3 components that relate to page responsiveness, speed, stability, and how they affect the user experience. Already scrambling to Google what these mean? Don’t worry, all 3 will be explained in detail below.

AIOps is a DevOps strategy that brings the power of machine learning to bear on observability and system management. It’s not surprising that an increasing number of companies are now adopting this approach. AIOps first came onto the scene in 2015 (coincidentally the same year as Coralogix) and has been gaining momentum for the past half-decade. In this post, we’ll talk about what AIOps is, and why a business might want to use it for their log analytics.

We’ve seen the value that many in our community have gotten from using Jira for planning, tracking, and releasing software, so we’re excited to announce the new Jira integration for Grafana Cloud.

Industry analyst firm 451 Research recently published a Business Impact Brief on how monitoring tool sprawl, which has long been a pervasive problem for large enterprises and government institutions, is creating even more challenges in modern IT environments.

For several years I have worked with healthcare customers deploying, managing, and supporting Citrix environments that serve applications and desktops to thousands of users.