If you’re in the cloud engineering and DevOps space, you’ve probably seen the name OpenSearch a lot over the last couple of years. But, what is your current understanding of OpenSearch, and the components around it? Let’s take a closer look.To understand OpenSearch, we should start with a simple review of the basic concepts of observability, and why it matters. Building and … [Read more...] about OpenSearch Taking Observability to the Next Level
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Elastic Synthetics Projects: A Git-friendly way to manage your synthetics monitors in Elastic Observability
Elastic has an entirely new Heartbeat/Synthetics workflow superior to the current workflow. If you’re a current user of the Elastic Uptime app, read on to learn about the improved workflow you can use today and should eventually migrate toward.We’ve recently released a beta feature that provides a Git-friendly IaaC oriented workflow. You can now push Heartbeat monitors with the … [Read more...] about Elastic Synthetics Projects: A Git-friendly way to manage your synthetics monitors in Elastic Observability
FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost
With the current financial climate, cost reduction is top of mind for everyone. IT is one of the biggest cost centers in organizations, and understanding what drives those costs is critical. Many simply don’t understand the cost of their Kubernetes workloads, or even have observability into basic units of cost. This is where FinOps comes into play, and organizations are … [Read more...] about FinOps Observability: Monitoring Kubernetes Cost
It’s time for government to move beyond monitoring and into observability
When thinking about holistic end-to-end observability, it can help to start with what you already have. Many government agencies are already strategically ingesting and storing logs — a key component of observability. More than a year and a half after the release of M-21-31, US government agencies continue to work through the logging maturity models outlined in the memorandum. … [Read more...] about It’s time for government to move beyond monitoring and into observability
How to Get Full Kubernetes Observability in Minutes
How is your organization handling Kubernetes observability? What tools are you using to monitor Kubernetes? Is it a time-consuming, manual process to collect, store and visualize your logging, metrics and tracing data? And, what are you actually getting out of all that investment?At Logz.io we’re trying to make this process easier for customers who are serious about Kubernetes … [Read more...] about How to Get Full Kubernetes Observability in Minutes
Reduce MTTR with Logz.io’s Single-Pane-of-Glass Observability Data Analytics
Observability data provides the insights engineers need to make sense of increasingly complex cloud environments so they can improve the health, performance, and user experience of their systems. These insights can quickly answer business-critical questions like, “what is causing this latency in my front end?” Or, “why is my checkout service returning errors?”Observability is … [Read more...] about Reduce MTTR with Logz.io’s Single-Pane-of-Glass Observability Data Analytics
3D Observability for Prometheus + Grafana + Octoprint
You may get lucky this holiday season with a new 3D printer, either as a gift or something you give yourself as a reward for all your hard work this year.Household 3D printers have made tremendous strides in ease of use and affordability over the last decade. In this time, even use of budget 3D printers has matured from a long weekend of slow building and constant … [Read more...] about 3D Observability for Prometheus + Grafana + Octoprint
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. With traditional … [Read more...] about Automate Observability Tasks with Logz.io Machine Learning
Logz.io’s New Features: Easier, Faster, and More Cost-Efficient Observability
Our product strategy this year was relatively simple. Many observability practitioners we spoke with complained that observability was oftentimes slow, heavy, complex, and costly – which can be summed up in our CEO’s recent blog on modern observability challenges.While our customers didn’t report similar challenges, we wanted to further distance ourselves from this typical … [Read more...] about Logz.io’s New Features: Easier, Faster, and More Cost-Efficient Observability
Analyze your application’s AWS service metrics with Elastic Observability
The transition to distributed applications is in full swing, driven mainly by our need to be “always-on” as consumers and fast-paced businesses. That need is driving deployments to have more complex requirements along with the ability to be globally diverse and rapidly innovate.Cloud is becoming the de facto deployment option for today’s applications. Many cloud deployments … [Read more...] about Analyze your application’s AWS service metrics with Elastic Observability