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Cloudflare Overhauls Logging Pipeline with OpenTelemetry
Internet infrastructure and security company Cloudflare has documented how it significantly upgraded its logging pipeline by moving from syslog-ng to OpenTelemetry Collector.
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Improving Mobile Test Automation with Continuous Integration, Central Logging, and Metrics Analysis
Continuous integration can enhance automated mobile testing. Test data from multiple mobile devices running parallel tests can be consolidated to support monitoring. Jira tickets from manual testing can trigger the build process to ensure that testers will have the correct software version to do the manual testing.
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What Software Developers Can Do to Prevent Forgetting or Overlooking Things
According to Ilian Iliev, software developers tend to forget to do things they do not have to think about every day, which can cause delays or impact the functionality of the product during a software project. To prevent overlooking something, he suggested starting early with automating deployment, setting up error logging, and using lists and reminders of things that were forgotten previously.
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AI and FinOps Predicted to Lead Observability Innovation in 2024
In recently published articles, three large observability companies have made predictions for the trends we will see in the observability area in 2024 and beyond. These contributions suggest that the fields of AI Integration, FinOps, OpenTelemetry and Security and Governance will impact observability significantly in the year ahead.
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Enhancing Observability: Amazon CloudWatch Logs Introduces Account-Level Subscription Filter
The recent update to Amazon CloudWatch Logs introduces support for account-level subscription filtering. With this enhancement, developers can now access a real-time feed of CloudWatch Logs from all logs groups and have it delivered to a single destination for further processing.
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OpenTelemetry Logging Marked Stable: Morgan McLean at KubeCon NA
Logging is a core capability of applications today. OpenTelemetry (OTel) has stabilized logging as another available signal within the project. OTel Logging offers improvements to traditional logging.
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Grafana Tempo Introduces New Query Language and Support for Apache Parquet
Grafana has released Grafana Tempo 2.0 which introduces the new TraceQL query language and support for the Apache Parquet format. Grafana Tempo is an open-source tracing backend that works with object storage. The new TraceQL query language works with the Apache Parquet format to provide improved search times and queries aligned to traces.
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Log Analytics Feature in Cloud Logging Now Generally Available
Google recently made its Cloud Logging Log Analytics feature generally available (GA), allowing users to search, aggregate, and transform all log data types, including application, network, and audit logs.
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Grafana Adds Outlier Detection to Its Machine Learning Toolkit
Grafana has released outlier detection as part of their Grafana Machine Learning toolkit. Outlier detection can be used to monitor a group of similar things and be alerted when some of them start to behave differently than the norm.
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Prometheus Adds Long Term Support Model and Improved Remote Write Mode
Prometheus, the open-source monitoring tool, has added a number of new features including a reduced functionality remote write mode. Additional improvements include a new HTTP service discovery mechanism, native histogram support, additional integrations for Alertmanager, and a new long-term support model.
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Google Previews Log Analytics Feature in Its Cloud Logging Service
Google recently announced the preview of a new feature called Log Analytics in its Cloud Logging service, allowing companies to analyze data collected from their cloud environments.
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An Overview of Apple's Unified Logging System in Swift
In a recent series of articles, iOS independent developer Majid Jabrayilov focused on the importance of logging to enable the analysis of bugs hard to catch in the debugger as well as to better understand user behaviour through the app.
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Google Cloud Python Logging Library Release Improves Serverless Support
Google has announced version 3.0.0 of their Google Cloud Python logging library. The release brings a number of new features including enhanced support for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions, support for string JSON payloads, and automated metadata attachments.
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Elastic Releases Terraform Providers for the Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud
Elastic has released their official Terraform provider for configuring the Elastic Stack. The provider enables configuring ElasticSearch, Kibana, Fleet, and other Elastic Stack components. This follows closely on their release of the Elastic Cloud Terraform provider.
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AWS Releases Fully-Managed Data Lake for CloudTrail Logs
AWS announced the release of CloudTrail Lake, a fully-managed data lake for storing and analyzing CloudTrail logs. CloudTrail Lake can aggregate logs across regions and accounts. Once in the lake, the logs can be queried using SQL syntax.