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How to Monitor Amazon DynamoDB Table via Kinesis Data Streams and Firehose Stream
Learn effective ways to monitor DynamoDB tables using AWS Kinesis Data Streams and Firehose. Enhance your data management strategies today!
Manas Sharma
11 Dec, 2024
Unlocking Insights from AWS Route 53 Logs: A Complete Guide
Learn how to enable AWS Route 53 query logging, transform logs with VRL, and build dashboards for actionable insights. Unlock DNS traffic analysis and optimize performance with this step-by-step guide."
Chaitanya Sistla
8 Dec, 2024
Unveiling Microsoft 365 Insights: From Diagnostics to Actionable Observability
Discover how to effectively monitor Microsoft 365 logs, including AuditLogs, SignInLogs, Non-Interactive User SignInLogs, RiskyUsers, UserRiskEvents, ProvisioningLogs, NetworkAccessTrafficLogs, and RiskyServicePrincipals. This guide explores setting up robust log monitoring to enhance security, track critical events, ensure compliance, and gain actionable insights into your Microsoft 365 environment.
Chaitanya Sistla
3 Dec, 2024
Monitoring CloudFront Access Logs with Kinesis Streams & Amazon Data Firehose: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to set up real-time monitoring for CloudFront access logs using AWS Kinesis Streams and Firehose. This guide walks you through configuring CloudFront logging, creating Lambda transformations, and visualizing data in OpenObserve for performance optimization, security monitoring, and actionable insights.
Nitya Timalsina
2 Dec, 2024
Comprehensive Guide to AWS WAF: Logging, Monitoring, and Visualization
Learn how to set up and monitor AWS WAF logs for enhanced security. This comprehensive guide covers AWS WAF configuration, waf logs, automated ingestion, dashboards, and best practices for visualization and insights.
Chaitanya Sistla
1 Dec, 2024
How to Configure Email Alerts in OpenObserve: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to configure email alerts in OpenObserve with this step-by-step guide. Set up Gmail SMTP, create alert templates, and ensure instant notifications for critical system events
Sampath Siva Kumar Boddeti
30 Nov, 2024
How to Monitor AWS API Gateway Access Logs via Kinesis Data Firehose and Openobserve
Discover the importance of log monitoring for API performance, step-by-step instructions on setting up a Lambda function, creating a REST API, and configuring Kinesis Firehose for seamless log streaming.
Manas Sharma
30 Nov, 2024
OpenVPN Connect Logs: Streamlining Ingestion with AWS and Building Security Dashboards
Learn how to automate OpenVPN Connect or OpenVPN Client log ingestion into OpenObserve using AWS services like S3, SNS, and Lambda. Build scalable pipelines and security dashboards for real-time observability and enhanced insights.
Chaitanya Sistla
30 Nov, 2024
Exploring osquery Daemon and Shell on Linux for Logging and Observability
Learn how to use osquery daemon and shell on Linux for logging and observability. Discover how osquery works, its configuration, and how to analyze logs for enhanced system monitoring and security.
Chaitanya Sistla
30 Nov, 2024
Beginner’s Guide: How to Send AWS CloudWatch Logs to S3 via Kinesis Firehose
Learn how to send AWS CloudWatch logs to S3 using Kinesis Firehose in this beginner-friendly guide. Step-by-step instructions for seamless log streaming and storage
Sampath Siva Kumar Boddeti
25 Nov, 2024
A Complete Guide on How to Stream and Analyze AWS CloudWatch Logs Using Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Learn how to send AWS CloudWatch Logs to Amazon Kinesis Firehose with this step-by-step guide. Discover real-time log streaming, analysis techniques, and integration best practices to optimize cloud monitoring and performance.
Sampath Siva Kumar Boddeti
25 Nov, 2024
What is AWS CloudTrail? How to Monitor CloudTrail Logs and Data Events for Real-Time Insights
Learn what AWS CloudTrail is and how to monitor CloudTrail logs and data events in real-time. Using a CloudFormation stack, deploy roles for Lambda functions, Kinesis Data Firehose, and policies to seamlessly send AWS CloudTrail logs, data events, and more to OpenObserve for analysis.
Chaitanya Sistla
23 Nov, 2024
How to Monitor AWS Events Using Amazon EventBridge (CloudWatch Events)
Discover how to monitor AWS events using Amazon EventBridge and OpenObserve. Learn to set up a real-time event pipeline, simulate events, and create powerful visualizations for cloud environments.
Nitya Timalsina
22 Nov, 2024
How to Monitor AWS Lambda Logs Using CloudWatch & Kinesis Firehose
Learn how to monitor AWS Lambda logs using CloudWatch, Kinesis Firehose, and OpenObserve for performance tracking and error detection.
Nitya Timalsina
19 Nov, 2024
What is JumpCloud and How JumpCloud Directory Insights Help Customize Security Reports for Advanced Monitoring
Learn what JumpCloud is and how JumpCloud Directory Insights helps customize security reports. Discover how to forward JumpCloud logs to AWS S3 and use AWS Lambda to ingest them into OpenObserve for enhanced security observability.
Chaitanya Sistla
18 Nov, 2024
Understanding JSON Logging and Analysis
Explore JSON logging, a structured, searchable log format that offers machine and human readability, and fosters true observability.
Manas Sharma
18 Nov, 2024
Comprehensive Guide to Integrating AWS CloudWatch Logs with Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Learn how to integrate AWS CloudWatch Logs with Amazon Kinesis Firehose for seamless, real-time log streaming and management. This step-by-step guide covers the benefits, setup, and verification of logs in OpenObserve, ensuring efficient monitoring, troubleshooting, and improved AWS log management. Perfect for DevOps engineers looking to streamline their log management strategy in the cloud.
Sampath Siva Kumar Boddeti
18 Nov, 2024
Monitor AWS EC2 Logs and Metrics with OpenTelemetry
Learn how to monitor AWS EC2 logs and metrics using OpenTelemetry. Set up real-time and continuous monitoring for performance, security, and compliance.
Nitya Timalsina
16 Nov, 2024
A Comprehensive Guide to Distributed Tracing: From Basics to Beyond
Discover the essentials of distributed tracing, from core concepts to implementation. Learn how to visualize and analyze trace data, pinpoint bottlenecks, and optimize your microservices architecture with OpenObserve.
Nitya Timalsina
14 Nov, 2024
Enhancing Kubernetes Metrics Collection With Opentelemetry and Prometheus
Enhance your Kubernetes observability using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. TargetAllocator optimizes target discovery, ensuring reliable monitoring in dynamic settings.
Manas Sharma
13 Nov, 2024
Error Handling With Opentelemetry Python SDK: A Step-by-Step Guide
Enhance your understanding of error handling in Python with OpenTelemetry. This detailed guide offers step-by-step instructions to use Global Error Handler in Otel Python SDK.
Manas Sharma
13 Nov, 2024
Mastering Windows IIS Logging: A Comprehensive Beginner's Guide
Learn everything about Windows IIS logging, from setup and configuration to log collection and parsing. Enhance your understanding and improve your IIS log management with step-by-step instructions and practical examples.
Sampath Siva Kumar Boddeti
13 Nov, 2024
What You Need to Know About Prometheus Metrics: Architecture, Collection, and Optimization for Scalable Observability
Discover everything you need to know about Prometheus metrics, from its architecture and setting up efficient metrics collection to optimizing and visualizing data for scalable observability. This guide covers how to leverage Prometheus for insightful monitoring, making it easier to ensure system performance and reliability at scale. Perfect for DevOps engineers and observability enthusiasts, this blog provides actionable insights on maximizing Prometheus capabilities to enhance your infrastructure monitoring.
Chaitanya Sistla
12 Nov, 2024
How to Monitor Nginx in Real-Time: Step-by-Step Guide for Tracking Logs, Metrics, and Performance Insights
Learn how to monitor Nginx logs in real-time with this step-by-step guide, covering essential techniques for tracking logs, metrics, and performance insights. Discover best practices to optimize Nginx performance, troubleshoot issues faster, and ensure high availability by gaining actionable visibility into your web server’s health.
Chaitanya Sistla
11 Nov, 2024
How to Monitor Jenkins Pipelines with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve
Learn how to monitor Jenkins pipelines effectively with this comprehensive guide on integrating OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve. Discover step-by-step instructions for capturing Jenkins logs, metrics, and traces to enhance CI/CD observability and optimize pipeline performance.
Chaitanya Sistla
10 Nov, 2024
How Can You Store and Monitor Ansible Logs Effortlessly?
Learn how to store and monitor Ansible logs effortlessly with this step-by-step guide. Discover best practices for Ansible log management, setup instructions, and tips for using Fluent Bit to centralize logs for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting.
Chaitanya Sistla
8 Nov, 2024
Tracing Made Easy: A Beginner's Guide to Jaeger and Distributed Systems
Discover the essential guide to Jaeger and learn how distributed tracing can elevate your modern applications. Ideal for DevOps professionals and developers, this guide unlocks insights for better performance, troubleshooting, and system optimization.
Sampath Siva Kumar Boddeti
6 Nov, 2024
How to Generate and Ingest Terraform Logs for Observability and Analysis
Learn how to generate, configure, and ingest Terraform logs with Fluent Bit to OpenObserve. This step-by-step guide covers essential logging for auditing, troubleshooting, and optimizing your infrastructure, ensuring comprehensive visibility and compliance in your infrastructure-as-code deployments.
Chaitanya Sistla
4 Nov, 2024
What's New in OpenObserve v0.13.1-rc1
Discover the latest release of OpenObserve, version 0.13.1-rc1! Enjoy faster search speeds, advanced dashboard features, enhanced alerting with multiple time range and VRL support, and optimized performance. Experience next-level observability with these powerful updates and more in OpenObserve 0.13.1-rc1.
Manas Sharma
1 Nov, 2024
How to Enhance AWS VPC Flow Logs with Reverse DNS Resolution Using VRL
Learn how to enhance AWS VPC Flow Logs by adding reverse DNS resolution using Vector Remap Language (VRL). This guide provides a step-by-step approach to implementing reverse DNS lookups, enriching log data with domain information for improved network visibility and security insights.
Chaitanya Sistla
1 Nov, 2024
Efficient Kubernetes Log Streaming: Real-time Insights for DevOps
Unlock real-time insights for DevOps with efficient Kubernetes log streaming. Discover how to streamline logging and enhance observability for optimized performance and rapid troubleshooting in Kubernetes environments.
Chaitanya Sistla
31 Oct, 2024
Supercharge Your User Experience: Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Frontend Performance Metrics
Explore the importance of Real User Monitoring (RUM) and learn how OpenObserve enhances RUM with powerful observability features. This guide walks you through building a React User Portal and integrating OpenObserve RUM to track frontend performance metrics and user interactions for optimized insights.
Chaitanya Sistla
31 Oct, 2024
Nginx Log Management: From Data Collection to Insightful Analysis
This blog guides you through effective Nginx log management and analysis using OpenObserve and Vector, providing insights on enhancing observability and streamlining your logging process.
Sampath Siva Kumar Boddeti
29 Oct, 2024
Microservices Observability: Leveraging Logs, Metrics, and Traces for Enhanced System Performance
Discover how to implement effective microservices observability using logs, metrics, and traces. Learn key strategies to improve system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize your distributed architecture.
Nitya Timalsina
29 Oct, 2024
Choosing the Right SaaS Monitoring Solution: Features, Best Practices, and ROI
Discover how to choose the best SaaS monitoring solution for your organization. Learn key features, best practices, and ROI considerations in this comprehensive guide.
Nitya Timalsina
28 Oct, 2024
Building Monitoring Dashboards with OpenObserve [Tutorial]
Learn how to create effective monitoring dashboards with OpenObserve. This guide covers installation, sample data setup, and dashboard creation, highlighting key features like customizable panels and dynamic filtering for enhanced application performance monitoring.
Manas Sharma
23 Oct, 2024
From Elasticsearch (ELK) to OpenObserve Streamlining Log Management
This blog helps you in getting started with understanding migration from ELK to OpenObserve Streamlining Log Management for Better Insights.
Chaitanya Sistla
22 Oct, 2024
Journald vs Syslog
journald and syslog are two popular logging systems used in Linux environments. While they share some similarities, they have distinct differences in their design, functionality, and use cases.
Prabhat Sharma
20 Oct, 2024
Journald.conf configuration
How to configure journald.conf to customize journald logging in Linux
Prabhat Sharma
20 Oct, 2024
What is Journald and how to do centralized journald logging
What is Journald, what is it's log file location, how to do log rotation for it. Also learn how OpenObserve uses otel-collector to provide centralized logging for Journald.
Prabhat Sharma
20 Oct, 2024
Monitoring Your FastAPI Application with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve
This blog helps you in getting started with monitoring FastAPI python application with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve.
Manas Sharma
24 Sept, 2024
Understanding OpenTelemetry Logging
This blog explores how OpenTelemetry streamlines log collection and management for modern applications. Learn how to integrate OpenTelemetry, auto-instrument logs, and optimize performance, while unifying logs, traces, and metrics for better observability.
Manas Sharma
23 Sept, 2024
The SSO (Single Sign On) Tax - Understanding the Controversy
The SSO (Single Sign On) Tax - What it is, why it is controversial
Prabhat Sharma
3 Sept, 2024
OpenObserve Vs Grafana
What are the differences between OpenObserve and grafana
Prabhat Sharma
14 Jul, 2024
How to analyze Google Workspaces audit logs
Understanding how to analyze Google Workspaces audit logs using Google Cloud Pub/Sub and OpenObserve.
Prabhat Sharma
12 Jul, 2024
Analyze Okta events for better security and observability
Understanding how to send Okta logs to OpenObserve for better security and observability.
Prabhat Sharma
21 Jun, 2024
How to send GCP logs to OpenObserve
Understanding how to send GCP logs to OpenObserve using pub sub and OpenObserve builtin support
Prabhat Sharma
21 Jun, 2024
How to capture AWS VPC Flow Logs and analyze them
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a wealth of data about the traffic that flows through your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). By capturing this data, you can gain insights into network patterns, detect anomalies, and improve the security and efficiency of your cloud environment. AWS VPC Flow Logs are a feature that allows you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC. In this blog, we will discuss how to capture all fields of AWS VPC Flow Logs, send them to Kinesis Firehose, and then analyze them using OpenObserve's Logs UI and Dashboards..
Prabhat Sharma
18 Mar, 2024
Parsing windows IIS logs
Internet Information Services (IIS) is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. Monitoring and analyzing IIS logs can provide valuable insights into the performance and health of your web applications. In this blog, we will walk through the process of capturing IIS logs using the OpenTelemetry Collector (otel-collector), parsing them with Vector Remap Language (VRL), and sending them to OpenObserve for analysis.
Prabhat Sharma
10 Mar, 2024
Parsing Syslog Messages
VRL provides a powerful way to parse syslog messages,using the built-in `parse_syslog` . Some syslog messages may not be parsed effectively using the built-in `parse_syslog` function. In such cases, `parse_regex` can be used to extract meaningful data from syslog messages.
Prabhat Sharma
10 Mar, 2024
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