25 Linux Logs to Collect and Monitor
While “America runs on Dunkin”, IT increasingly runs on Linux. Between being open-source and highly customizable, everything from video games to enterprise servers can run on Linux. When cloud services took over the corporate IT environment, they brought Linux with them in the form of virtual servers and containers. Meanwhile, developers increasingly use Linux-based Docker […]
Suricata IDS/IPS Data in Graylog
If you’re running Suricata to watch your network, you already know how much signal lives in its logs. Graylog provides a purpose-built way to make that signal immediately actionable. The Suricata IDS/IPS Content Pack, available with an Illuminate license and Graylog Enterprise or Graylog Security, delivers ready-to-use parsing rules, streams, GIM categorization, and a dashboard […]
What Is Application Performance Management? A Cloud-Native Guide for Engineering Leaders
It’s five o’clock on a Friday night, and as you head onto the highway, you realize that traffic has come to a full and complete crawl. While grumbling to yourself, “I could walk home faster than this,” you look out all your windows. All you can see in either direction are long lines of cars, […]
A Practical Guide for Managing Linux Syslog
As a child, playing hide-and-seek was fun. As the hider, you knew all the best places to avoid being found. As the seeker, you knew your friends well-enough to guess at their locations. The biggest prize as the seeker was finding someone quickly so that you could get back to the fun of hiding. In […]
Kubernetes Troubleshooting: The Complete Guide
You’re walking into a cineplex to meet up with a friend you haven’t seen in a few years. However, the movie you agreed to see is showing in three different theaters. Your friend arrived first, and sent you a cryptic text saying “on the left.” The problem is that you don’t know if he means […]
Graylog Academy: Free On-Demand Training Available
Free Online Graylog Analyst Training Efficient log management and analysis are crucial for maintaining robust IT infrastructures. To empower IT professionals and enthusiasts with the skills needed to harness the power of log data. Sign up at the Graylog Academy and take our Free Online Graylog Analyst Training! Why Graylog? Graylog is a […]
OSSEC HIDS Data in Graylog
Host-based intrusion detection often lives at the edge of a SOC’s attention, generating a steady stream of file integrity alerts, authentication events, and active response actions that rarely get the same scrutiny as firewall or EDR data. OSSEC HIDS has been quietly filling that role on Unix, Linux, and Windows systems for years, watching log […]
Recognizing and Mitigating Configuration Drift Risks
Sometimes, driving along an empty, straight stretch of highway can lead you to pay less active attention. As your mind wanders a bit, your car starts slowly drifting toward the lane next to you until a loud “HONK” brings you back to the here and now. In IT, the same thing can happen to systems. […]
Troubleshooting the Top 10 Microservices Issues
In a famous I Love Lucy episode, Lucy and Ethel take jobs at a chocolate factory, tasked with wrapping each piece of candy as it passes by on a conveyor belt. Over time, the conveyor belt speeds up, making it difficult for them to keep pace with the work. As the chocolates start piling up, […]
Building a Process for Investigating Deployment Failures In the CI/CD Pipeline
When a pipe bursts in your house, the resulting flood is only one symptom of a larger plumbing problem. Until you find that hidden pipe in your wall, you’re going to mop and clean for days. Ultimately, the cost of the burst pipe includes more than just the physical material. It includes the drying, the […]
Understanding Compliance with GDPR Requirements
Since its 2018 implementation, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been a foundational data protection law that changed how organizations collect, process, and manage sensitive data. The GDPR is one of the earliest regulations that establishes jurisdiction based on the data subject’s citizenship and residence rather than on the organization’s location. Additionally, […]
Graylog MCP Server How-To Webinar
Most of the time you already know what you are looking for in Graylog. The problem is getting there: building the right search, remembering the field names, narrowing down the stream, formatting the query. It works great, but there is a new way and its conversational. That changes with Graylog’s MCP server. It connects Graylog […]