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Datadog vs Splunk - Which Monitoring Platform Is Right for You?

Aug 20, 2024 By Uptrace In Uptrace

Datadog and Splunk are leading monitoring and observability platforms that offer comprehensive solutions for modern IT environments. Both tools share a wide range of features, making it challenging to choose between them. This article compares Datadog and Splunk on crucial aspects like application performance monitoring (APM), log management, search capabilities, and more to help determine which platform best fits your organization.

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Introduction to Log Observer Connect in Splunk Observability Cloud

Aug 20, 2024 By Splunk In Splunk

Log Observer Connect will allow you to connect to and view/query logs from your Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud instance from within Splunk Observability Cloud. In this video, I will introduce you to Log Observer Connect in Splunk Observability Cloud and walk you through a demonstration of how it works. You’ll learn how to view and query logs, as well as save queries for later use. I’ll also walk you through a practical example of when you might use Log Observer Connect through the use of Related Logs.

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Setup Log Observer Connect in Splunk Observability Cloud

Aug 20, 2024 By Splunk In Splunk

Log Observer Connect will allow you to connect to and view/query logs from your Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud instance from within Splunk Observability Cloud. In this video, I will briefly explain what Log Observer Connect is and then show you how to connect your Splunk Observability Cloud organization to a Splunk Enterprise instance through Log Observer Connect. TOC.

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Grafana Labs recognized as a leader in the observability space

Aug 20, 2024 By Trevor Jones In Grafana

Observability has become essential to organizations of all sizes, helping them get deeper, better insights into the infrastructure and applications driving their businesses.

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Observability Meets Security: Build a Baseline To Climb the PEAK

Aug 20, 2024 By James Hodgkinson In Splunk

When we hunt in new environments and datasets, it is critical to build an understanding of what they contain, and how we can leverage them for future hunts. For this purpose, we recommend the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework's baseline hunting process.

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Aligning Business and Engineering Goals with Honeycomb SLOs

Aug 19, 2024 By Priscilla Lam In Honeycomb

Setting clear, measurable goals is essential for any successful team. However, aligning those goals with the technical work can be challenging in the fast-paced world of software engineering. Engineers might focus on reducing latency or improving uptime, while business leaders look at revenue and customer satisfaction. It gets tricky to track the impact between the two to justify when specific engineering initiatives are important, why, and how they impact the bottom line.

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What is Observability? A Comprehensive Guide to Observability Platforms, Tools, and Open Source Solutions

Aug 18, 2024 By Uptrace In Uptrace

Explore the concept of observability in software systems and discover how it differs from monitoring. Learn about the importance of metrics, traces, and logs, and see how Uptrace can be a valuable tool in achieving effective observability.

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Top 11 Cloud Observability Tools To Use In 2024

Aug 16, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero

Cloud observability tools offer visibility into your cloud infrastructure. They collect data from various sources to help you understand your applications’ performance. The tools enable you to monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot your cloud environment. In this guide, we’ll share why cloud observability is important and the best tools to consider.

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From Basic Monitoring to Modern Observability: Shifting Right and Observability as Code

Aug 16, 2024 By Alberto Gomez In Checkly

I've been in the observability market long before it even had that name. Over the years, observability has undergone a significant transformation. As someone who has witnessed these changes firsthand, I can attest to the dynamic nature of this field. In the early days, it was largely about basic monitoring: tracking system metrics, lots of logs, and simple alerts.

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A CoPE's Guide to Alert Management

Aug 15, 2024 By Nick Travaglini In Honeycomb

Alerts are a perennial topic, and a CoPE will need to engage with them. The bounds of this problem space are formed by two types of alerts: Understanding what these alerts are and how to configure them is one thing. Thinking about what they each do for your organization, and how using one or the other affects things, is another. The latter will be the focus of this article.

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