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Hybrid cloud services have become a cornerstone for many businesses. These technologies, which combine the strengths of private and public clouds, assist enterprises in achieving their dreams of scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, this added optimization comes at a cost, particularly with increased operational complexity and security concerns. To minimize cyber threats and secure their data, businesses must invest in more security solutions, such as log monitoring.

Imagine you’re a product manager at a B2B SaaS company. Monday morning, a frustrated client floods your inbox—their workflows were disrupted by a slowdown you could’ve caught sooner with better user insights. Now, imagine running an e-commerce store on Cyber Monday. Traffic surges, but abandoned carts spike. Your RUM dashboard reveals slow mobile checkouts. A quick fix saves thousands in sales.

We’ve supported syncing your metrics from Kinesis Streams, Amazon’s streaming data platform, for several years. Kinesis Streams helps you gather and process streaming data which can then be monitored in your Hosted Graphite account. Recently, we’ve added support for Firehose, a fully managed and scalable service that allows users to stream data to destinations like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, or Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES).

Tiered Storage for Apache Kafka is a simple idea that goes a longway. At its bare bones, it basically means: store most of the Kafka broker’s data in another server, e.g AWS S3. On the surface, it sounds insignificant—like a minor architectural tweak with minimal impact.