Is Index-Free The Answer to the Looming Data Deluge Problem?

The legacy log management industry is in trouble. With data volumes expected to reach 181 zettabytes by 2025, many log management vendors are rapidly approaching a breaking point. Their prevalent technology is index driv Read more…

Index-Free Log Management: Surf the Approaching Tidal Wave of Data Instead of Drowning in It

Whether an organization is diagnosing a system outage, mitigating a malicious attack or trying to get to the bottom of an application response-time issue, speed is critical. Pinpointing and resolving issues quickly and e Read more…

Cribl Seeks Control of Observability Data Run Amok

If you’re struggling to keep a handle on the growing mounds of observability data in your shop, you’re not alone. Many companies today are straining to keep up with daily log data rates exceeding 10 to 100 terabytes Read more…

AIOps: Beat the DevOps Arms Race

When we consider operational challenges in the technologi field, it’s tempting to think of them as a continual battle. We detect an issue, remediate it, and put improvements in place to prevent it from recurring. Detec Read more…

Here’s What Splunk Announced Today at .conf21

Today marked the start of .conf21, Splunk’s annual user conference, which the company traditionally uses to unveil enhancements and customer success. This conference proved no different, as the big data vendor released Read more…

Hydrolix Puts Big Log Data In Its Place: The Cloud

A startup named Hydrolix has arrived on the big data scene to give providers of log data storage and analytics solutions a run for their money. Its secret sauce: a distributed system designed to store, index, and query h Read more…

Log Storage Gets ‘Chaotic’ for Communications Firm

As the dedicated WiFi provider for the Toronto subway system, BAI Communications generates a fair amount of log data, which it stores and analyzes using the Elastic family of products, including Logstash and Kibana. But Read more…

Coralogix Brings ‘Loggregation’ to the CI/CD Process

Most developers by now are familiar with the concept of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD). The ability to automatically push a large number of relatively small updates into production provides much of th Read more…

Sumo Logic Puts Cloud Architecture on Notice at Illuminate 2019

Today's hybrid and multi-cloud architectures are generating a windfall of log data, but it's not all good. According to Sumo Logic, which kicks off its third annual Illuminate conference today, the situation warrants a f Read more…

How Big Data Improves Logging and Compliance

Compliance has never been easy. Organizations have to meet a myriad of external regulations, frameworks, and internal mandates such as PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, NERC, ISO and the EU Data Directive, many of which have a long lis Read more…