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What is Runtime Context? A Practical Definition for the AI Era

TLDR: Runtime Context is live, execution-level access to a running production system. It lets engineers and AI agents ask precise questions of running code and get answers immediately, without redeploying or interrupting users. This is the new baseline for reliability.

"You Had One Job": Why Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do it

Let’s start with a question. What is DevOps all about? I’ll tell you my answer. In retrospect, I think the entire DevOps movement was a mighty, twenty year battle to achieve one thing: a single feedback loop connecting devs with prod. On those grounds, it failed. Not because software engineers weren’t good at their jobs, or didn’t care enough. It failed because the technology wasn’t good enough.

Cribl Search Pack for Outlook Email Activity

Email is still mission-critical, but most teams have very little visibility into what’s actually happening behind the scenes. In this video, I give a quick walkthrough of an inbox intelligence dashboard built on Cribl Search. It shows email volume, delivery health, and unusual activity at a glance, without digging through raw logs unless of course you like doing that.

OpAMP Explained: Why OpenTelemetry Needed an Agent Management Protocol (and How We Use It)

OpenTelemetry makes it easy to produce and transmit any type of telemetry. In production environments, this often means deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector as an intermediary to process, enrich, and route telemetry data. As systems scale, so does this infrastructure—sometimes to hundreds or thousands of Collectors spread across environments.

Why Observability Budgets Keep Growing Even When IT Is Asked to Cut Costs

Observability is the surprising budget line that isn’t shrinking. 96% of IT leaders expect observability budgets to hold steady or grow over the next 12 months. And 62% expect those budgets to increase regardless of broader IT budget cuts. Why? Because as infrastructure becomes more distributed and harder to manage, observability has shifted from a “nice to have” to a control point for cost, performance, and risk.

Getting the Right Signals: Mobile Observability with Embrace and SquaredUp

More than half of all connections to web services now originate from mobile devices. Mobile apps are no longer peripheral - they are central to how businesses engage customers, deliver services, and generate revenue. Despite this shift, many organizations still rely on observability tools that are fundamentally server-centric. These platforms are adept at monitoring backend health, but they often fail to capture what’s happening at the edge - on the mobile device itself.

Cribl Search Pack for Missing Logs

Ever run a SIEM search only to see nothing for your firewall logs? In this video, we show a smarter way to detect when log sources stop sending data using Cribl Lake, Cribl Search, and Cribl Stream. Learn how to track “last seen” times, build efficient aggregations, and get real-time alerts—without burning SIEM resources or storage.