Scalyr has moved to reduce the cost of observability by enabling DevOps teams to retain log and event data in S3-compatible object storage systems than use a pay-per-TB-scanned pricing model to interrogate that data. Company CEO Christine Heckart said the Scalyr Hindsight service will make it possible for IT teams to more cost-effectively store historical […]
Logz.io Adds Monitoring Service Based on ELK and Grafana
Logz.io today at the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference launched Cloud Observability Platform, a monitoring and security cloud service based on ELK—open source Elasticsearch, a search engine; Logstash, a data processing pipeline; and Kibana, a set of visualization tools—and Grafana, an analytics and monitoring platform. Company CEO Tomer Levy said it’s become apparent that developers have […]
Logz.io Unveils Azure Open Source ELK Monitoring Solution
Needless to say, DevOps as a practice is largely fueled by open source. The growth and popularity of open source tools such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and others are driven largely by the increased flexibility, innovation and familiarity of options. While this isn’t news for developers (65% of which are active open source contributors), leading cloud […]
Best of 2018: Log Monitoring and Analysis: Comparing ELK, Splunk and Graylog
As we close out 2018, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2018. As organizations face outages and various security threats, monitoring an entire application platform is essential to understand the source of threat or […]
Splunk and the ELK Stack: A Side-by-Side Comparison
This article’s purpose is to compare the “big two” in the log analytics world—Splunk and the ELK Stack. But before we go into details, a short introduction to the competitors is required. Splunk is the “Google for log files” heavyset enterprise tool that was the first log analysis software and has been the market leader […]