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Kubernetes monitoring and troubleshooting made simple

Infrastructure monitoring was difficult enough when entire businesses ran off a few bare metal servers in a dusty, forgotten closet. Other IT infrastructure monitoring tools fell short, unable to provide complete and granular-enough metrics in real time, even when we were only dealing with a handful of systems responsible for running every part of the application stack.

The Value of Ingesting Firewall Logs

In this article, we are going to explore the process of ingesting logs into your data lake, and the value of importing your firewall logs into Coralogix. To understand the value of the firewall logs, we must first understand what data is being exported. A typical layer 3 firewall will export the source IP address, destination IP address, ports and the action for example allow or deny. A layer 7 firewall will add more metadata to the logs including application, user, location, and more.

From Distributed Tracing to APM: Taking OpenTelemetry & Jaeger Up a Level

It’s no secret that Jaeger and OpenTelemetry are known and loved by the open source community — and for good reason. As part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), they offer one the most popular open source distributed tracing solutions out there as well as standardization for all telemetry data types.

Measuring User Experience with Web Vitals

Top of search for you means top of mind for your customers. And with Google’s upcoming Page Experience update to Web Vitals taking place in a few weeks, now’s the right time to optimize your user experience. But before you can optimize your user’s experience, you need to be able to measure it. We’re kicking off Measurement May by breaking down breaking down how Google uses Web Vitals data — and how you can instrument that data with Sentry.

How to search logs in Loki without worrying about the case

Whether it’s during an incident to find the root cause of the problem or during development to troubleshoot what your code is doing, at some point you’ll have an issue that requires you to search for the proverbial needle in your haystack of logs. Loki’s main use case is to search logs within your system. The best way to do this is to use LogQL’s line filters. However, most operators are case sensitive.

Why Experience Level Agreements for Microsoft 365 are Becoming a Business Expectation

When it comes to business, having a productive IT team means enhanced productivity. Understanding that productivity is a direct result of a good user experience is crucial. In this blog, we will examine what constitutes a good user experience and how experience level agreements for Microsoft 365 are becoming a business expectation. An effective Experience Level Agreement is a combination of different data sources.

Rappi Relies on Splunk Observability Cloud to Meet its 30-Minute Guarantee

Hear from Rappi’s EVP Engineering, Alejandro Comisario about how as one of the largest technology startups in Latin America, the on-demand delivery service relies on the Splunk Observability Cloud for real-time, end-to-end visibility across its complex backend system of 1k+ microservices. Since COVID-19 Rappi has grown 300%, relying on Splunk’s real-time observability to eliminate app issues for customers and stay on top of its infrastructure, applications, and overall business. With Splunk APM, Rappi now has in-depth insights into service behavior and directed troubleshooting, bringing developers’ mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) down by 90+%.