Observability is critical for effective security implementation. It allows organizations to monitor their systems, applications, and networks in real-time; detect and investigate security incidents; and quickly respond to them. But having multiple tools and solutions for observability can create a fragmented view of the environment, making it difficult to gain a comprehensive … [Read more...] about The importance of a unified observability solution in security implementation
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Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
In a recent post, we showed you how to get started with the free and open tier of Elastic Observability. Below, we'll walk through what you need to do to expand your deployment so you can start gathering metrics from application performance monitoring (APM) or "tracing" data in your observability cluster, for free.What is APM?Application performance monitoring lets you see … [Read more...] about Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
An observability solution for today’s “always-on” world
Market-leading AIOps Elastic, with its 10 years of development in machine learning, allows you to not only bring your own models, but it’s truly built to do the work for you. Here are several examples of Elastic Observability’s out-of-the-box capabilities using built-in machine learning models, including data frame analytics, and natural language processing (NLP):Anomaly … [Read more...] about An observability solution for today’s “always-on” world
OpenSearch Taking Observability to the Next Level
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
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