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Cribl

Mastering Tail Sampling for OpenTelemetry: Cost-Effective Strategies with Cribl

Nov 20, 2024 By Patrick Wade In Cribl
Recently, I have seen a trend of enterprises moving toward OpenTelemetry (OTel) for application tracing. Tail sampling, in particular, has emerged as a preferred approach to gain actionable insights while balancing data volume and cost. OpenTelemetry offers developers and practitioners the ability to instrument their code with open-source tools, moving away from vendor-provided tools for application instrumentation.
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elastic

Leveling up your observability practice - Part 1

Nov 20, 2024 By David Hope In Elastic
Lessons from the front lines: Moving to observability maturity What separates the observability experts from the novices? It's a question that's been on my mind lately, especially after diving into our recent 2024 State of Observability Survey of over 500 practitioners. In my past roles as a DevOps engineer and a site reliability engineer (SRE), I've seen firsthand how a mature observability practice can be the difference between sleepless nights and smooth sailing.
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elastic

Collecting Windows telemetry with Elastic: An introduction to the ETW Filebeat input

Nov 20, 2024 By Chema Martinez In Elastic
In the world of security, being able to use system telemetry of Windows hosts opens new possibilities for monitoring, troubleshooting, and securing IT environments. Recognizing this, Elastic has introduced new capabilities focused on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) — a powerful Windows-native mechanism for capturing a vast array of system and application events. With these new additions, Elastic users can capture, analyze, and visualize Windows telemetry using the Elastic Search AI Platform.
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meshiq

Configuring Kafka Brokers for High Resilience and Availability

Nov 20, 2024 By Navdeep Sidhu In meshIQ
In a Kafka setup, high availability isn’t just nice to have—it’s a lifeline. Downtime, data loss, or hiccups in message flow can make or break critical applications. Let’s be real: setting up Kafka brokers to be resilient takes some fine-tuning, but it’s absolutely worth it. Imagine dealing with failovers smoothly or knowing your data is protected even if a broker goes down—this is what configuring for resilience is all about.
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coroot

Emergency Observability with Coroot

Nov 20, 2024 By Peter Zaitsev In Coroot
If you’re an experienced engineer, you likely have comprehensive observability and monitoring set up for your production systems. So if issues arise, you’re empowered to resolve them quickly. Yet, there are way too many systems out there, especially smaller and simpler ones, which are running with only rudimentary observability systems, or no observability at all. This means when an application goes down or starts to perform poorly, it may be very hard to pinpoint and resolve the issue.
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Future-proofing operations with generative AI

Nov 20, 2024 By Elastic In Elastic
NOBODY PANIC! The Elastic AI assistant’s got you! Transform problem identification and resolution, and eliminate manual data chasing across silos with an interactive assistant that delivers context-aware information for SREs. Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.
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cloudzero

10 Kubecost Alternatives For Maximum Kubernetes Cost Visibility

Nov 20, 2024 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Kubernetes is one of the most significant advances in cloud computing since the public cloud. It provides an open-source, highly scalable, and cloud-native platform for orchestrating containerized applications. More organizations now use Kubernetes to deploy, network, scale, and manage containers at scale. In addition, the Kubernetes architecture empowers them to deploy containerized applications swiftly across various platforms, support distributed systems, and scale operations to meet demands quickly.
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jfrog

Gain Clarity on Cloud Usage with Enhanced Monitoring from MyJFrog

Nov 20, 2024 By The JFrog Team In JFrog
We can all agree that visibility into resource usage is crucial for optimizing performance and managing costs to drive your business — especially in today’s cloud-driven world. MyJFrog is a comprehensive management portal for overseeing JFrog cloud platform instances and subscriptions. It provides a centralized control tower to manage and monitor subscriptions, resources, and usage.
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Aiven

The Data Economy: A One Trillion Euro Windfall for Europe in 2025

Nov 20, 2024 By Francesco Tisiot In Aiven
By all accounts, Europe is expected to land a lottery jackpot next year. Indeed, according to the European Commission, the region is tipped to be almost one trillion Euros (EUR 829 billion) better off on account of the growth in the data economy. At a time when we’re surrounded by uncertainty and conflict, and with the threat of recession stubbornly hanging over the region, it’s also a moment that raises several important questions as we head into 2025.
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