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LLM Observability for AI Applications with OpenObserve and OpenLIT
Discover how to integrate OpenObserve and OpenLIT for comprehensive LLM observability, enabling real-time monitoring, tracing, and optimization of AI application performance.
Manas Sharma, Aman Agarwal
27 Feb, 2025

Effortlessly Visualize and Manage All Your AWS Metrics in One Place
Learn how to effortlessly bring together and visualize all your AWS metrics in one place. Step-by-step guide to creating unified dashboards for AWS monitoring.
Chaitanya Sistla
27 Dec, 2024

Simplifying Kubernetes Monitoring with OpenTelemetry and OpenObserve
Discover how Opentelemetry & OpenObserve simplifies Kubernetes monitoring. Enhance visibility, performance, and troubleshooting for your Kubernetes Enviornment.
Manas Sharma
25 Dec, 2024

Falco Security: Your Ultimate Tool for Securing Kubernetes Clusters
Discover how Falco Container Security enhances Kubernetes cluster protection by detecting threats in real time. Learn its features, setup process, and how to integrate Falco with OpenTelemetry for comprehensive security monitoring.
Chaitanya Sistla
24 Dec, 2024

How to redact sensitive / PII data in your logs
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.
Prabhat Sharma
17 Dec, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OpenObserve Vs Grafana
What are the differences between OpenObserve and grafana
Prabhat Sharma
14 Jul, 2024

Sending Pino Logs to OpenObserve: A Step-by-Step Guide
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.
Kirtan Thakkar
12 Feb, 2024

Why Apache ECharts Won Over Plotly in Our Tech Stack
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
Kirtan Thakkar
25 Dec, 2023

Empowering Monitoring Excellence with OpenObserve on Azure AKS
Standup AI team describes, how to setup OpenObserve on Azure AKS with postgres as metastore.
Johnson Huynh
14 Dec, 2023

Jidu's Journey to 100% Tracing Fidelity with OpenObserve. A Case Study
Jidu acheived 100% tracing fidelity with OpenObserve by migrating from Elasticsearch to OpenObserve. Read this case study to learn how they did it.
Hengfei Yang, Zhao Wei
8 Dec, 2023

Filter logs at source in otel collector
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.
Prabhat Sharma
7 Dec, 2023

Revolutionizing Observability - Unveiling OpenObserve, the High-Performance, Cloud-Native Platform
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 and how its approach towards observability could help you build better software and save money on observability costs.
Prabhat Sharma
10 May, 2023

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

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
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