2023-08-18 17:34
We’ve all been surprised by our cloud monitoring bill at one time or another. If you are a BindPlane OP customer ingesting Host Metrics into Google Cloud Monitoring, you may be wonderi… Read More
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2023-08-11 19:52
If you’re a systems engineer, SRE, or just someone with a love for tech buzzwords, you’ve likely heard about “data lakes”. Before we dive deep into this concept, let… Read More
2023-07-28 20:18
Much of the log data we handle doesn’t offer substantial insight and can be conveniently removed from your logs, helping us reduce costs. What may seem like a small adjustment, like de… Read More
2023-07-21 20:13
As the foundation of your observability stack, BindPlane OP provides great visibility into your telemetry data, all the way from collection to its final destination.
With the introd… Read More
2023-07-14 18:25
You may be thinking, “What on earth is an observability pipeline? And how does the Super Mario World fit in?”
Hold on to your hat, my friend, because you’re about to fin… Read More
2023-07-07 18:52
Part 1 of 3: Connecting The Pieces
Preface
Splunk is a popular logging, and in the case of Splunk Cloud also metrics, platform. The BindPlane Agent is capable of integrating with Splun… Read More
2023-06-24 03:51
Managing configuration changes within BindPlane OP is a straightforward process when using the newly introduced Rollouts features to deploy your changes. Rollouts provides a user-friendly pl… Read More
2023-06-16 12:57
The OpenTelemetry Collector plays many different roles in the observability ecosystem. One of its most important roles is that of a telemetry processor. Recent upgrades to the Collector have… Read More
2023-06-09 15:22
With the release of BindPlane 1.15.0 observIQ has introduced a new Rollouts flow. Now, a user can apply configuration changes to agents in a safer and more observable way. This new feature p… Read More
2023-06-02 13:32
Adding additional attributes to your telemetry not only provides valuable context to your observability pipeline but also enhances the flexibility and precision of your data operations. Cons… Read More
2023-05-26 15:50
When engaging with potential customers, we are often asked “how can we reduce spend on our observability platform like Splunk or Data Dog and simultaneously justify the cost of BindPla… Read More
2023-05-19 19:44
In the rapidly evolving landscape of modern tech, system reliability has become a critical factor for businesses to succeed. To ensure the stability and performance of complex distributed sy… Read More
2023-05-12 18:21
If you’ve worked with NGINX web servers, you know they’re efficient but can generate a lot of log data. While this data is valuable, sorting through it can be a challenge, and th… Read More
2023-05-04 21:26
Preface
Parsing logs with regex is a valuable technique for extracting essential information from large volumes of log data. By employing this method, one can effectively identify pattern… Read More
2023-04-29 15:46
As the amount of telemetry being collected continues to grow exponentially, businesses are continuously seeking cost-effective ways to monitor and analyze their systems. Data collection and… Read More
2023-04-21 19:12
Logs often contain sensitive data, including personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers. To maintain security and comply with data protection… Read More
2023-04-12 14:58
At observIQ, we use the OTel collector to collect host/container-level metrics and logs from our systems. But to get more detailed monitoring of our applications (APM), we use the OTel SDK a… Read More
2023-04-05 01:01
With observIQ’s latest contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free open source tools to easily monitor Cloudflare. The easiest way to use the latest OpenTelemetry tools is wit… Read More
2023-03-29 11:54
Fluentbit is a popular logs and metrics collector used for monitoring anything from virtual machines to containerized applications. With the rise of BindPlane OP and OpenTelemetry, it is not… Read More
2023-03-22 14:37
Google Cloud Operations is a powerful integrated monitoring, logging, and trace managed service for applications and systems running on Google Cloud and beyond.
As part of our partn… Read More
2023-02-04 02:11
Here are the highlights:
Redesigned Overview page that makes it easy to identify configs sending the most data
BindPlane OP Overview PageThe configuration editing experience has been simp… Read More
2023-01-31 15:14
Observability pipelines solve some critical problems IT is facing today: the cloud environment has generated an unprecedented amount of data in recent years; enterprises now have multiple Sa… Read More
2022-12-20 10:20
BindPlane OP is a powerful, open source tool that makes it easy to build and manage telemetry pipelines to ship data from IT environments of any kind and size to any analysis tool or storage… Read More
2022-11-21 19:56
We talk to a lot of the top research firms about our business and the evolving space of observability so we are honored to be awarded the Fall 2022 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award.
Intel… Read More
2022-11-15 15:00
Redundant logs are a common nuisance in observability pipelines of all kinds. In large environments, excess logs can multiply data costs to unsustainable amounts. Log sampling is the process… Read More
2022-11-10 15:00
With observIQ’s latest contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free open source tools to easily aggregate data across your entire infrastructure to any or multiple analysis too… Read More
2022-11-03 19:19
New Enterprise Features and 24/7 Support Added to OpenTelemetry-based Solution
Grand Rapids, MI (November 3, 2022) – Continuing its commitment to open source observability, observIQ… Read More
2022-11-03 12:40
Today we’re excited to announce that BindPlane OP Enterprise is now generally available. With single-sign-on support for LDAP/AD authentication and 24/7 customer support from one of th… Read More
2022-10-20 15:02
With observIQ’s latest contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free open source tools to easily aggregate logs across your entire infrastructure to any or multiple analysis too… Read More
2022-10-17 08:47
Data enrichment is the process of adding additional context or attributes to telemetry data at the source that increases its value during analysis. OpenTelemetry, a collaborative open source… Read More
2022-10-05 19:11
Since introducing BindPlane OP earlier this year, we’ve received a lot of feedback asking for the enterprise features you require to deploy in production. With functionality like SSO… Read More
2022-10-05 10:01
Monitor Oracle DB in Google Cloud Platform with the Google Ops Agent. The Ops Agent is available on GitHub, and makes it easy to collect and ship telemetry from dozens of sources directly to… Read More
2022-09-23 18:59
Data costs fill a large column in many organizations’ accounting sheets. Data pipeline setup and management is a large time sink for DevOps, IT, and SRE. Setting up telemetry pipelines… Read More
2022-09-06 07:30
With observIQ’s latest contributions to OpenTelemetry, you can now use free open source tools to easily monitor Aerospike. The easiest way to use the latest OpenTelemetry tools is with… Read More
2022-09-02 07:16
Monitor Vault in Google Cloud Platform with the Google Ops Agent. The Ops Agent is available on GitHub, and makes it easy to collect and ship telemetry from dozens of sources directly to you… Read More
2022-08-30 10:00
You can now easily monitor couchbase metrics and logs in Google Cloud. All of our logging and monitoring Google Cloud contributions are available through the Google Ops Agent GitHub reposito… Read More
2022-08-28 10:00
Starting Out
We chose to use GoReleaser with our distro of the OpenTelemetry Collector in order to simplify how we build and support many operating systems and architectures. It… Read More
2022-08-25 10:00
Bindplane OP is the first open source, vendor-agnostic, agent and pipeline management tool. It makes it easy to deploy, configure, and manage agents on thousands of sources, and ship metrics… Read More
2022-08-22 10:00
Monitoring Solr is very critical because it handles the search and analysis of data in your application. Similifying this monitoring is necessary to gain full visibility into Solr’s av… Read More
2022-08-11 18:44
Manages thousands of agents in one control panel, with enhanced filters to reduce data for greater control, lower costs
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — O… Read More
2022-08-10 19:29
SAP Hana monitoring support is now available in the open source OpenTelemetry collector. You can check out the OpenTelemetry repo here! You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with any… Read More
2022-08-10 16:35
Today we’re excited to announce BindPlane OP – the first observability pipeline built for OpenTelemetry – is out of beta and now generally available. You can download the l… Read More
2022-08-03 15:36
observIQ CEO Mike Kelly is a telemetry industry veteran, and we’re excited to see him sharing his knowledge on the TFiR show. In this episode, Mike breaks down the basics of Telemetr… Read More
2022-07-29 20:08
Apache Flink monitoring support is now available in the open source OpenTelemetry collector. You can check out the OpenTelemetry repo here! You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with… Read More
2022-07-28 13:07
Intro
BindPlane OP is written in Go. It is a single http webserver, serving REST, Websocket, and Graphql clients. It includes embedded react applications for serving the user interface… Read More
2022-07-26 18:02
You can now monitor Jetty for free using top of the line open source monitoring tools in OpenTelemetry. If you are as excited as we are, take a look at the details of this support in OpenTel… Read More
2022-07-25 21:09
Part 1: Google Cloud Run
In this part 1 of a blog series on serverless monitoring, we will learn how to run the observIQ Distro For OpenTelemetry Collector, referred to as “oiq-otel… Read More
2022-07-20 21:07
We’re excited to announce the latest OpenTelemetry receiver contribution: SQL Server monitoring. All of our logging and monitoring contributions are available through the open source O… Read More
2022-07-18 06:01
We are back with a simplified configuration for another critical open-source component, Hadoop. Monitoring Hadoop applications helps to ensure that the data sets are distributed as expected… Read More
2022-07-15 06:30
If you use Windows, you want to monitor Windows Events. With our latest contribution to the observIQ OpenTelemetry Collector, you can easily monitor Windows Events with OpenTelemetry. You ca… Read More
2022-07-14 06:30
We are back with a simplified configuration for another critical open-source component, Zookeeper. Monitoring Zookeeper applications helps to ensure that the data sets are distributed as exp… Read More
2022-07-08 19:00
We are constantly working on contributing monitoring support for various sources, the latest in that line is support for Cassandra monitoring using the OpenTelemetry collector. If you are as… Read More
2022-07-07 21:26
We are constantly working on contributing monitoring support for various sources, the latest in that line is support for JVM monitoring using the OpenTelemetry collector. If you are as excit… Read More
2022-07-01 19:27
Background
I use VS Code for almost all of my development. It allows me to save folders and their custom settings to workspace files.
Alfred is a macOS program which serves as a launch… Read More
2022-06-28 18:51
We are constantly working on contributing monitoring support for various sources, the latest in that line is support for Tomcat monitoring using the JMX Receiver in the OpenTelemetry collect… Read More
2022-06-20 17:16
In this post, we will address the common monitoring use case of filtering metrics within the observIQ OpenTelemetry (OTEL) collector. Whether the metrics are deemed unnecessary, or they are… Read More
2022-06-20 16:49
We’re excited to announce that we’ve recently added Varnish monitoring support for Google Cloud Platform. You can check it out here!
Below are steps to get up and running quic… Read More
2022-06-15 20:47
We’re pleased to announce the beta release of BindPlane OP (Observability Pipeline), the first open source observability pipeline built specifically for OpenTelemetry.
When we launc… Read More
2022-06-15 14:36
Some popular monitoring tools in the market can complicate and create blind spots in your Elasticsearch monitoring. That’s why we made monitoring Elasticsearch simple, straightforward… Read More
2022-06-07 13:59
OpenTelemetry is at the core of standardizing telemetry solutions and observIQ is focused on building the very best in open source telemetry software. Our relationship with OpenTelemetry beg… Read More
2022-05-25 20:54
We’re excited to announce that we’ve recently contributed Active Directory Domain Services (abbreviated Active Directory DS) monitoring support to the OpenTelemetry collector. Yo… Read More
2022-05-19 13:50
MongoDB is a document-oriented and cross-platform database that maintains its documents in the binary encoded JSON format. Mongo’s replication capabilities and horizontal capability us… Read More
2022-05-18 06:01
observIQ provides unified view into workloads on Google Compute Engine and on premise
Grand Rapids, MI (May 18, 2022) – Open source telemetry innovator observIQ has expanded its par… Read More
2022-05-14 18:44
The OpenTelemetry members at observIQ are excited to add Microsoft IIS metric monitoring support to OpenTelemetry! You can now easily monitor your IIS web servers with the oIQ OpenTelemetry… Read More
2022-05-11 18:29
OpenTelemetry is at the core of standardizing telemetry solutions. At observIQ, we’re focused on building the very best in open source telemetry software. Our relationship with OpenTel… Read More
2022-05-03 23:48
observIQ’s OpenTelemetry members contributed Riak metric monitoring support to OpenTelemetry! You can now monitor your Riak agent performance with OpenTelemetry, and deploy simply with… Read More
2022-04-29 19:07
We’re excited to announce that we’ve recently contributed Redis monitoring support to the OpenTelemetry collector. You can check it out here!
You can utilize this receiver in… Read More
2022-04-28 20:09
MySQL is the trusted open-source database management system for many desktop, mobile, web, and cloud applications. Monitoring the performance of MySQL is critical but as the applications exp… Read More
2022-04-14 19:55
In this article, we’ll learn how to embed a React single page application (SPA) in our Go backend. If you’re itching to look at code you can get started with our implementation&n&hell…Read More
2022-03-22 14:53
Why use OpsAgent?
The Ops agent is Google’s recommended agent for collating your application’s telemetry data, and forwarding them to GCP for visualization, alerting and monit… Read More
2022-01-27 21:54
You may have noticed a few changes around here. If you explore our new website, you’ll notice new products, expansions to our open source libraries, significant contributions to our fa… Read More
2021-11-23 18:19
In the tech industry, we obsess over the latest and greatest. When it comes to observability, we’re always looking at the most advanced hardware, the enthusiasts’ favorite system… Read More
2021-11-12 17:12
Stanza is a robust log agent. GCP users can use Stanza for ingesting large volumes of log data. Before we dive into the configuration steps, here’s a matrix detailing the functional di… Read More
2021-11-09 19:02
Observability Pricing: Bargain or Rip-off?
There’s something wrong with the pricing of observability services. Not just because it costs a lot – it certainly does – but al… Read More
2021-11-06 19:10
observIQ is busy making simple log management even simpler. We’ve updated our onboarding process to make it easier to install your first agent and get started. We’ve added new Ci… Read More
2021-10-26 17:22
We’re all familiar with the typical use cases for log management, such as monitoring cloud infrastructures, development environments, and local IT infrastructure. So we thought it wou… Read More
2021-10-23 00:20
Log management software gives the primary diagnostic data in your applications’ development, deployment, and maintenance. However, choosing the log sources to log and monitor could oft… Read More
2021-10-19 18:42
Visualizing log data is one of the biggest perks of using good log management software. Data is many businesses’ most critical asset. But, without proper use, a business’ data be… Read More
2021-10-12 20:57
With the advent of IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) and IaC (Infrastructure as Code), it is now possible to manage versioning, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines at the infrastructure level… Read More
2021-10-05 20:36
Understanding Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) from the Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp’s Outage
Yesterday the most used social media platforms in the world were inaccessible for 6 hou… Read More
2021-10-01 14:57
Lots of big changes are coming your way, but our favorite is arm support. Arm is a powerful architecture that is taking over in the form of raspberry pi and arm-based kubernetes. observIQ is… Read More
2021-10-01 14:30
Our take on New Relic’s observability projections for 2021
New Relic recently published a survey on the observability projections and trends for the year 2021. At observIQ, an emergin… Read More
2021-09-27 17:30
I want to be remembered. I think a lot of us do.
At least, that’s what I used to think. Now I am not so sure. I have a bad habit of looking at the universe through an existential lens… Read More
2021-09-22 21:24
Parallels between Yoga and Observability
Yoga is to ideal human health what observability is to an application’s ideal functioning. It is well established that observability is a criti… Read More
2021-09-17 13:39
An upgrade to observIQ’s log agent – incorporating OpenTelemetry
Our log agent is powerful, efficient, and highly adaptable. Now, with OpenTelemetry setting new standards in the… Read More
2021-09-14 16:59
Logging Gitlab runners for MacOS and Linux
Gitlab is the DevOps lifecycle tool of choice for most application developers. It was developed to offer continuous integration and deployment pipe… Read More
2021-09-10 21:08
observIQ Cloud – the first plug and play observability solution for arm-based Kubernetes
The Emergence of Arm-Based Kubernetes
Arm-based Kubernetes clusters have been in use for a wh… Read More
2021-09-07 21:24
What is OpenTelemetry?
Plenty of blogs have answered the very Google-able question, “What is OpenTelemetry?” To keep it short and sweet, OpenTelemetry is a collaborative effort… Read More
2021-09-03 14:00
Log agents vs Log Libraries
Log management has been around for a long time, but how we manage our logs has changed profoundly over the years. For effective log management, there are times wh… Read More
2021-08-31 14:04
Log Management for the MEAN stack framework
MEAN is evolving as a popular web stack for developing cloud native applications because of its scalability, ease of extension, and high reliabi… Read More
2021-08-29 21:50
We’ve added a new agent – Mongo. Lot’s of UI changes, making observIQ even easier to set up and navigate. Templates now include default values that will generate valuable i… Read More
2021-08-27 21:43
The perfect log management solution is invisible.
It sounds like a wild claim, considering that billion dollar companies like Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, and Solarwinds are consistently maki… Read More
2021-08-24 12:00
Why is log management a vital part of Rails application development?
Logging is useful in building, managing and debugging Rails applications. Most logging functionalities are built into the… Read More
2021-08-20 16:17
We launched the Stanza log agent just over one year ago. Stanza is the result of an uncompromising stance on performance, processing, and configurability for log telemetry. It took mere days… Read More
2021-08-18 18:29
The Biden administration signed an executive order recently to regulate security practices among federal agencies and establishments. The decision modernizes and improves government networks… Read More
2021-08-13 17:28
Brief History
“Observability,” is the process in DataOps of recording data generated by digital systems as they go about their processes. There are some great companies in the o… Read More
2021-08-10 15:00
Archiving is in and your logs are here to stay!
We develop features that streamline the log management processes for our users. Logs are information assets, and we understand that you need t… Read More
2021-08-07 18:08
This week we are excited to announce a new extended retention feature, included in all plans, that allows you to automatically compress and archive all of your logs directly to your AWS acco… Read More
2021-08-06 21:07
Is GitOps changing observability as we know it?
GitOps has been the buzz word in the DevOps space for several years. GitOps, to those that are not familiar, is an operational methodology fo… Read More
2021-08-03 18:20
Monitoring Directly in Kubernetes
No matter what you’re using Kubernetes for, visibility into your applications’ performance and activity is a beneficial and often essential und… Read More
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