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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Discover how to choose the best SaaS monitoring solution for your organization. Learn key features, best practices, and ROI considerations in this comprehensive guide.

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.

This blog helps you in getting started with understanding migration from ELK to OpenObserve Streamlining Log Management for Better Insights.

How to configure journald.conf to customize journald logging in Linux

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.

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.

This blog helps you in getting started with monitoring FastAPI python application with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve.

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.

The SSO (Single Sign On) Tax - What it is, why it is controversial

What are the differences between OpenObserve and grafana

Understanding how to analyze Google Workspaces audit logs using Google Cloud Pub/Sub and OpenObserve.

Understanding how to send Okta logs to OpenObserve for better security and observability.

Understanding how to send GCP logs to OpenObserve using pub sub and OpenObserve builtin support

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...

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.

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.

Learn how to send Pino logs to OpenObserve using the @openobserve/pino-openobserve npm library. This comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instructions, including setting up the project, configuring OpenObserve integration, and observing logs in OpenObserve.

Netflow is a network protocol that allows you to analyze network traffic. Learn how to use it to analyze network traffic.

What are Apache, GPL and AGPL licenses and why OpenObserve moved from Apache to AGPL

We delves into our strategic shift from using Plotly to adopting Apache ECharts for our data visualization needs. It explores the reasons behind this decision, the comparative strengths and weaknesses of both tools, and the impact of this change on our user experience and technical operations

Standup AI team describes, how to setup OpenObserve on Azure AKS with postgres as metastore.

Jidu acheived 100% tracing fidelity with OpenObserve by migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenObserve. Read this case study to learn how they did it.

There are times when you would like to filter logs at source. This blog post shows how to do that when capturing logs using otel-collector.

Sending logs from NodeJS application to OpenObserve using Pino is easy. This blog is a step by step guide to do that.

Send metrics using kube-prometheus-stack to OpenObserve

Explore how OpenObserve, an open-source observability tool, collaborates seamlessly with GitHub Actions through the 'openobserve_github_action_logs' repository by Mark Percival. This integration offers developers an efficient way to capture logs, enabling long-term analysis to detect build patterns and improve CI/CD pipelines. Dive into the benefits of continuous data monitoring and how it can revolutionize your software delivery process.

Serilog Sink for OpenObserve is an extension that integrates Serilog, a favored logging library for .NET applications, with OpenObserve. Crafted by Konrad Kaminski-Pawlak, the sink allows for effortless logging to OpenObserve, thereby enhancing the ability to store, analyze, and manage logs.

Setup Fluent Bit on Ubuntu for Efficient Log Forwarding

Understanding Kubernetes and container resource management using rust

Sending logs from Kubernetes to OpenObserve using FluentBit is easy. This blog is a step by step guide to do that.

OpenObserve is an open source, cloud native open source observability platform that provides ~140x (YMMV. Could be higher or lower based on data entropy) lower storage costs compared to Elasticsearch. Use cases include real-life log data, significantly reduces operational costs, and improves ease of use. It can scale to petabytes of data, is highly performant, and allows you to sleep better at night 😴. If you are looking for an observability tool for logs, metrics, and traces, take a look at OpenObserve...