The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.
Imagine a symphony where every musician plays their part flawlessly, but without a conductor to guide the orchestra, the result is just a discordant mess. Now apply that image to the modern IT landscape, where development and operations teams work with remarkable autonomy, each expertly playing their part. Agile methodologies and DevOps practices have empowered teams to build and manage their services independently, resulting in an environment that accelerates innovation and development.
I’m currently working on a small team within Honeycomb where we’re building an ambitious new feature. We’re excited—heck, the whole company is—and even our customers are knocking on our door. The energy is there. With all this excitement, I’ve been thinking about a risk that—if I'm not careful—could severely hinder my team's ability to ship on time, celebrate success, and continue work after launch: burnout.
Lightrun’s LogOptimizer stands as a groundbreaking automated solution for log optimization and cost reduction in logging. An integral part of the Lightrun IDE plugins, this tool empowers developers to swiftly scan their source code—be it a single file or entire projects—to identify and replace log lines with Lightrun’s dynamic logs, all within seconds.
Financial services and financial technology (FinTech) companies often depend upon complex infrastructure to handle their financial data. Security and compliance are paramount for these organizations, for gaining full visibility into the health and performance of these services to guarantee security is essential.
Cribl.Cloud has grown substantially since its launch, and our observability practice has developed in parallel. Gone are the early days of manageable logs and metrics. As we continue to grow, that problem will become even more challenging. We used Splunk internally, a well-used internal system, as our primary event management system. With Cribl Edge nodes deployed across our entire cloud fleet, we collect logs and metrics and send them to Cribl Stream for processing and routing.
