All news with #telemetry tag

📢 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. The fully-managed, agentless collector discovers and ingests Prometheus-compatible metrics from container workloads directly into an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace. Running the collector in-region reduces latency for local workloads and enables customers to keep monitoring data in-country. This service removes the need to operate collection agents and simplifies scaling and operational overhead.

🛰️ Cloudflare Traces enters open beta, extending automatic distributed tracing beyond Workers to cover the entire request path. The feature records supported security rules, transformations, caching, routing, Worker execution, and origin interactions as OpenTelemetry spans, which can be exported via OTLP to compatible backends. Tracing is enabled per domain with baseline sampling and flexible Trace Rules to capture targeted, full-trace investigations without instrumenting code.

🔒 The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has urged device manufacturers to make forensic evidence collection easier after compromises. Chris A, NCSC technical director, warned that firewalls, VPN gateways and other network devices are increasingly targeted, and stressed that built-in telemetry, logging, memory and data-at-rest collection, and software transparency are crucial. He dispelled myths that observability aids attackers or is too difficult, and called on vendors and buyers to prioritize these capabilities.

📈 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports up to 1.5 billion active metric time series and up to 200,000 recording and alerting rules per workspace, with customers able to create many workspaces per account. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that automatically scales ingestion and storage for high-cardinality workloads across containerized, serverless, and hybrid environments. It integrates with AWS security services to provide secure access to monitoring data and lets customers request higher workspace limits via AWS Support Center or AWS Service Quotas.

📌 Amazon CloudWatch now offers a lookup processor that enriches log events by matching log fields against uploaded CSV lookup tables within CloudWatch Pipelines. You can map reference data—such as IP-to-team, user IDs, or product codes—to automatically add metadata at ingestion, improving queries, dashboards, and alarms without external processing. The feature is available in all commercial AWS regions that support CloudWatch Pipelines and is configurable via the Console, CLI, or SDKs.

🔧 Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports processing and enriching OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics during ingestion. CloudWatch pipelines is a fully managed service that ingests, transforms, and routes telemetry data to CloudWatch without requiring you to manage infrastructure. Customers can centrally apply transformations and add business context tags, strip high-cardinality labels, and rename metrics to enforce consistent naming, all with no application changes. The feature is available in Regions where CloudWatch pipelines and native OTel metrics are supported, and processing incurs no additional charge beyond standard ingestion pricing.

🔍 Storage Insights datasets now include activity insights that provide near-real-time visibility into object and bucket operations across your Google Cloud Storage estate. These BigQuery-linked views expose object-level writes, updates, deletes and errors, bucket-level aggregates and regional traffic patterns to support cost optimization and faster troubleshooting. The feature is generally available and customizable by org, folder, project, or specific buckets, enabling queries, Looker visualizations, and integration with other Storage Intelligence capabilities.

🔍 Amazon MSK Replicator now delivers replicator logs that provide end-to-end visibility into replication health. The logs surface critical replication events, client errors, and steady-state activity, and include prescriptive guidance to help operators resolve common issues more quickly. Common problems called out in log entries include insufficient permissions on source topics, partition quota exhaustion on target clusters, and records exceeding size limits. You can enable log delivery when creating or updating a Replicator via the AWS Console, AWS CLI, or AWS CloudFormation and forward logs to Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon S3, or Amazon Data Firehose.

🔍 The Falcon macOS sensor (v7.29+) delivers Enhanced Network Visibility, an opt-in capability that augments process telemetry with protocol and TLS-inspection attributes. It parses plaintext HTTP, extracts TLS Client Hello details including JA4 fingerprints, and identifies application protocols across ports while minimizing impact via Apple content filter APIs. New Next‑Gen SIEM events (HttpRequest, HttpResponse, TlsClientHello, AppProtocolDetected) expose the telemetry for detection and hunting workflows, and the feature can be enabled from Mac Prevention Policies in the Falcon UI.

🔍 A commissioned Forrester Consulting study for NETSCOUT (October 2025) reports that 61% of respondents say analysts spend more than ten hours a week in the analyze phase. The piece argues this is not a time-management issue but a clarity problem caused by partial context, dispersed data, and incomplete logs that force manual correlation. It highlights how stronger Network Analysis and Visibility (NAV) can shrink investigations and reduce burnout, and positions Omnis Cyber Intelligence as a platform delivering packet-level truth, correlated metadata, hybrid visibility, and simplified, three-click investigations.

📡 Cloud Observability now accepts OTLP for metrics in Cloud Monitoring, extending prior OTLP trace support. Using OpenTelemetry and the OTLP format, customers can send provider-agnostic metrics via the OpenTelemetry SDK and Collector directly to Cloud Monitoring, with storage and query parity with Managed Service for Prometheus. The rollout unlocks DELTA metrics, exponential histograms, dotted metric names and label keys, direct SDK exports for very high-volume sources, and zero-code auto-instrumentation options.

🔒 Many security leaders live with a practical paradox: the organization that appears secure on paper often coexists with a messier, attacker-facing reality. The author uses Schrödinger’s cat to show that without direct observation—alerts, correlated logs, or third-party findings—you cannot know whether you are safe or compromised. The piece reframes security as an observation problem, urging measurement of telemetry coverage, operationalized threat hunting, and cultural change that rewards surfacing ambiguity rather than hiding it.

🔍 The near-total internet blackout Iran imposed on January 8 may offer SOC teams a rare chance to observe and digitally fingerprint government-controlled traffic. Vendors argue that with residential and business noise silenced, remaining connections likely originate from state assets, making them high-confidence signals for threat modeling and short-term intelligence collection. Analysts caution, however, that sophisticated state actors can deceive attribution, legitimate government traffic may be benign, and routing artifacts often disappear once services are restored, so captured data should be treated as contextual input, not definitive proof.

📈 The Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector now supports discovery and scraping of Prometheus metrics from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) clusters without deploying agents. The agentless collector can target metrics exposed via the JMX exporter and the Node exporter, covering host-level, JVM-level, and broker-specific telemetry. This simplifies open monitoring for MSK, improves availability and scalability, and is available in all commercial regions where the service is offered.

📈 Amazon Web Services announced that the Amazon CloudWatch Agent can now collect shared memory utilization metrics from Linux hosts running on Amazon EC2 or in on‑premises environments. This complements existing memory metrics (free, used, cached) and captures memory used by large enterprise databases and in‑memory applications. Administrators can enable the feature in the agent configuration file to obtain accurate total memory usage for sizing and optimization. The capability is available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions; CloudWatch custom metrics pricing applies.

🔒 CloudWatch Application Signals is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), extending automated application observability to government and regulated workloads. The service automatically collects telemetry from Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Lambda to provide real-time health, dependency visualization and anomaly detection. By eliminating manual instrumentation, it helps teams meet compliance and monitoring requirements while improving incident detection and resolution. For pricing and setup, consult the CloudWatch pricing page and Application Signals documentation.

📊 Amazon GameLift Servers now includes built-in telemetry metrics across all server SDKs and game engine plugins, powered by OpenTelemetry, to generate, collect, and export client-side metrics for game-specific insights. The feature can be configured to collect and publish telemetry from game servers running on managed Amazon EC2 and container fleets, supporting both pre-defined and custom metrics and exporting to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus or Amazon CloudWatch. Visualizations are available via Amazon Managed Grafana and Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to help optimize resources, improve player experience, and surface operational issues. Telemetry is available in all supported regions except AWS China; see the GameLift Servers documentation for details.