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ELK has become one of the most popular log analytics solutions for software-driven businesses, with thousands of organizations relying on ELK for log analysis and management in 2021. In this ultimate guide to using ELK for log management and analytics, we’re providing insights and information that will help you know what to expect when deploying, configuring, and operating an ELK stack for your organization. Keep reading to discover answers to the following.

Discover where IIS log files are located on both Windows servers and Azure. This guide offers a step-by-step tutorial on how to locate and view your IIS logs, ensuring efficient troubleshooting and security audits. For a standard Windows Server, the default log location is: %SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles If your IIS logs are not stored in the default location, follow these directions below to look up where they are currently being stored.

When it comes to managing logs in a distributed environment, two popular open-source tools come to mind: Filebeat and Logstash. While both tools have similar goals, there are significant differences in their functionality and usage. Filebeat is a lightweight log shipper that collects, parses, and forwards logs to various outputs, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kafka.

Is your organization currently relying on an ELK cluster for log analytics in the cloud? While the ELK stack delivers on its major promises, it isn’t the only search and analytics engine — and may not even be your best option for log management. As cloud data volumes grow, ELK monitoring can become too costly and complex to manage.

In this post, we'll configure a Phoenix LiveView application to use a structured logger. We'll then use AppSignal to correlate log events with other telemetry signals, like exception reports and traces. Along the way, you'll learn about the benefits of structured logging, and you'll see how to configure a distinct framework and application logger in your Phoenix app. Let's get started!

Gone are the days of painful plain-text log management. While plain-text data is still useful in certain situations, when it comes to doing extended analysis to gather insightful infrastructure data – and improve the quality of your code – it pays to invest in reliable log management tools and systems that can empower your business workflow. Logs are not an easy thing to deal with, but regardless is an important aspect of any production system.

The success of businesses like Zoom, DropBox, and Slack demonstrates the power of product-led growth (PLG) as a strategy for scaling software companies in 2023. Central to this approach is event analytics, the practice of analyzing event data from a software product to unlock data-driven insights. Companies following a PLG strategy (“PLG companies”) use this data to inform product development decisions to enhance user experiences and drive revenue.

Logging plays a critical role in every application. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to use Apache Log4j 2.x and highlight best practices that can help you in getting started and improve logging capabilities. Additionally, we’ll discuss various key features and improvements of Log4j 2.x over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x.

In the rapidly shifting world of financial technology (FinTech), acquiring and retaining new customers to achieve long-term business growth requires a proactive approach to user experience and application performance optimization. As FinTech companies compete against rivals to grow a user base and revolutionize how consumers manage their finances, they increasingly depend on data-driven insights to optimize their mobile applications and deliver exceptional user experiences.

Not even Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, could have predicted the pace or breadth of its expansion over the last 30 years. Once, the web was only accessible via clunky desktop computers: today, it can also be reached from laptops, tablets, mobile phones and even smartwatches. What’s more, consumers want native apps that are unique to a particular platform and they expect updates to be provided seamlessly.