Monitoring your Serverless Application on AWS Lambda with Elastic
See how to ingest and analyze both metrics, logs, and traces from a serverless application running on AWS Lambda with Elastic Observability.
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How OpenTelemetry Powers Observability @ Canva
Canva is an online design platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere. To guarantee our customers have the best experience using our products, Canva engineers rely on the tools and products provided by the Observability team to measure and quantify critical application health and performance metrics. Canva’s Observability team uses OpenTelemetry components to collect, transform and export standardised telemetry data from our applications and platforms. Canva has been an early adopter of OTel using OTel SDK for tracing and the collector gateway to process and export telemetry to various tools.
Modern observability and security on Kubernetes with Elastic and OpenTelemetry
The structured nature of Kubernetes enables a repeatable and scalable means of deploying and managing services and applications. This has led to widespread adoption across market verticals for both on-premises and cloud deployment models. The autonomous nature of Kubernetes operation, however, demands comprehensive, fully-converged observability and security. This is uniquely possible today using the Elastic platform.
Top 12 Observability Benefits for Your Company
Observability is a growing practice that provides many benefits to IT and DevOps teams. With greater visibility into their environments, teams can determine the state of the system, predict issues, and mitigate them before end users are impacted. Observability makes data more usable and in turn, businesses reap the benefits of having great insights. Are you on the fence on whether to get started with your own observability practice? Check out these 12 observability benefits and get started today!
A Peek into the Next Generation Observability Solutions
As organizations strive to meet the challenges of digital transformation, they are adopting newer technologies to build more robust software systems. Next generation observability solutions are paving the way to help them meander this maze to deliver better customer experiences and drive business results.
Our Inaugural Customer Advisory Board Meeting: Solving Business Challenges With Observability
This past October, we had the pleasure of meeting with 11 IT leaders from diverse industries—including healthcare, financial services, education, telecom, logistics, and technology— as part of our inaugural SolarWinds Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meeting. The CAB is an exciting initiative for both myself, and our GVP of Customer Success, Anselm Peng.
Configuration and Change Tracking: A Key Part of Observability Strategy
Configuration Management and Change Tracking are well known key tenets of project management. Change tracking and controlled change ensure that there is a record of the state of a system and if issues arise the cause can be linked to effects. In this blog, I will use a real-world example to demonstrate the importance of configuration and change tracking when it comes to IT observability.
Cloud & observability: hot topics from AWS re:Invent
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend AWS re:invent, one of the biggest cloud industry events of the year. An event so massive and big that only AWS can pull it off – 50,000 people marching across half a dozen of the finest hotels on the Las Vegas strip. The expo hall alone would have taken more than a couple of days to cover all the vendor booths spread across the expansive Venetian convention center.
7 expert recommended data observability tools
Observability tools have traditionally focused on capturing and analyzing log data to improve application performance monitoring and security. Data observability turns the focus back on the data to improve data quality, tune data infrastructure and identify problems in data engineering pipelines and processes. “Data analysts and business users are the primary consumers of this data,” said Steven Zhang, director of engineering at Hippo Insurance.
Automate Observability Tasks with Logz.io Machine Learning
As an observability provider, we are always confronted with our clients’ goal for faster resolution of problems and better overall performance of their systems. By working on large-scale projects at Logz.io, I see the same main challenge coming up for all: extracting valuable insights from huge volumes of data generated by modern systems and applications.