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March 9, 2026

Beyond basic ingestion: Advanced OpenTelemetry data processing with NXLog

Most discussions about OpenTelemetry pipelines focus on getting data from point A to point B. Collect telemetry, maybe convert the format, forward it to a backend. That’s the minimum viable pipeline, and it’s where most tooling stops. But a pipeline that only moves data is a pipe, not a processing layer. The telemetry arriving at your observability platform or SIEM is only as useful as the context it carries. A raw log entry saying "connection from 198.

March 5, 2026

How NXLog simplifies your OpenTelemetry journey

OpenTelemetry has become the de facto standard for telemetry data. Nearly 50% of surveyed cloud-native end-user companies have adopted it, and the project ranks as the second-highest-velocity initiative in the CNCF, behind only Kubernetes. The direction is clear: if your infrastructure doesn’t speak OpenTelemetry, it will increasingly be left out of the observability conversation. But adopting OpenTelemetry across an entire infrastructure is a different problem than adopting it in a greenfield application.

March 3, 2026

Fluent Bit vs Fluentd: How to choose the right tool for your log pipeline

Choosing between Fluent Bit and Fluentd is an architecture decision, not a product shootout. Both projects live under the CNCF Fluent umbrella and share a common lineage at Treasure Data, but they target different roles in a logging pipeline. Fluent Bit is a C-based telemetry agent designed for low-overhead collection at the edge. Fluentd is a Ruby-and-C data collector built for aggregation, transformation, and multi-destination routing. The practical question is not which one is better — it’s where each one belongs in your stack, and whether you need both.

March 2, 2026

Data format chaos costs you weeks of visibility

Why the federal agency breach shows that standardized telemetry formats aren’t optional anymore When CISA analyzed the federal agency breach that went undetected for three weeks, they identified a familiar pattern: EDR alerts existed but weren’t continuously reviewed. Security teams had visibility tools, but critical signals got lost in the noise. What the advisory doesn’t detail—but every security practitioner knows—is the infrastructure nightmare hiding behind that simple statement. Those unreviewed alerts likely came from dozens of sources, each speaking its own dialect of security telemetry.

February 26, 2026

Security dashboards go dark: why visibility isn't optional, even when your defenses keep running

The SentinelOne outage showed why visibility isn’t optional—even when your defenses keep running. On May 29, 2025, organizations running SentinelOne experienced something unsettling: their security controls kept working, but they couldn’t see what was happening. A software flaw in SentinelOne’s infrastructure control system caused a global service disruption that lasted several hours. According to reports, the incident significantly impacted customers' ability to manage their security operations and access important data.

February 25, 2026

Building a practical OpenTelemetry pipeline with NXLog Platform

Collecting, processing, and forwarding logs and metrics at scale. OpenTelemetry provides a common instrumentation model that makes it easier to collect telemetry data across distributed systems, and many modern applications are adopting it as a standard for generating logs and metrics. However, in practice, you still need to collect, process, and shape the data before it becomes useful. You cannot simply forward raw telemetry data downstream without risking that your observability platform becomes expensive storage instead of a means of maintaining visibility into your environment.

February 24, 2026

Centralized log management: What it is, how centralized logging works, and how to choose the right system

Centralized log management is the practice of collecting logs from across an environment, including applications, servers, containers, networks, and cloud services, and storing them in a single location where they can be searched and analyzed. For operations and security teams, centralized logging is now a core requirement. Without it, logs are scattered across hosts, ephemeral containers, cloud consoles, and disconnected tools. This fragmentation slows troubleshooting, complicates incident response, and limits visibility during security investigations.

February 23, 2026

Announcing NXLog Platform 1.11

We are happy to announce the latest release of NXLog Platform, version 1.11. This version focuses on operational visibility and compliance, smoother troubleshooting, and improved security and access controls. Want a quick overview? Watch a short demo showcasing the new features in this release: Read on for more details about these updates. Monitor data volume in the NXLog Platform UI You can now monitor the volume of inbound and outbound data flowing through your agents directly in the NXLog Platform UI, either from the agent statistics view or via the data flow visualization.

February 10, 2026

Adopting OpenTelemetry without changing your applications

A practical approach to converting existing logs into modern observability. OpenTelemetry promises a vendor-neutral standard for observability, consistent telemetry, and the flexibility to change backends without rewriting everything. In practice, however, OpenTelemetry adoption often runs into a familiar obstacle: reality. Here’s a common scenario. You’re eager to improve observability, but your environment includes a mix of legacy applications, network devices, and third-party systems. Many of these were never designed for modern instrumentation, and changing them is risky, expensive, or simply not an option.

February 2, 2026

Graylog vs ELK Stack: Unbiased comparison of log management tools

Centralized logging is no longer optional. Whether you’re troubleshooting production incidents, investigating suspicious activity, or meeting audit requirements, you need a way to collect logs from many sources, normalize them, search them quickly, and turn them into alerts and dashboards. In practice, that starts with reliable collection — often via solutions like NXLog Platform — so the data arrives clean and consistent. Two of the most common open-source paths people compare are Graylog vs ELK Stack.

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