In our recent webinar hosted by Bill Balnave, VP of Technical Services, and Brandon Shelton, our Solution Architect, we discussed how data's continuous growth and dynamic nature cause DevOps and security teams to lose confidence in their data. The uncertainty about the content of telemetry data, concerns about its completeness, and worries about sending sensitive PII information in data streams reduce trust in the collected and distributed data.

This webinar showcased how we can apply data engineering principles to understand telemetry data and help establish trust in data distributed to multiple teams and analytics systems. In a live demo, we explored various techniques using a telemetry pipeline that help organizations build confidence in the data. 

This webinar covered:

Using Data Profiling to examine the data that helps understand and build trust in your data. Data profiling tool parses data to detect patterns and regularly identifies the frequency of redundant and repeated patterns in your data, providing insights on optimizing it.

Confidently optimize data to manage volume and costs by reducing, filtering, sampling, and aggregating data to manage the volume of data reaching the expensive analytics systems. 

Confidently route data to low-cost storage for retrieval when needed. Compliance requirements, or the need for incident debugging, may require you to store the complete datasets for some period. In such situations, the telemetry pipeline can send only a sample of data to analytics platforms and divert the rest to low-cost storage such as AWS S3. 

Confidently ensure data compliance by removing or encrypting sensitive information and PII data from the logs before it reaches the observability platforms.

Confidently route the right data to the right place to ensure that the correct data is available to teams so they can perform their jobs effectively. It also ensures that the users get only the data they need and have authorization to access it.

Confidently detect and resolve incidents by ensuring that teams have the right and current data to investigate and resolve issues.

Confidently deliver business insights that may be outside your BI systems. There is a lot of information available in logs, which, if captured correctly, can help teams make better decisions.

To learn more about these ideas, listen to the complete webinar here and download the accompanying whitepaper. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.