John joins Christian Hvitved, Chief Engineer and founder of Humio, and Anders Jensen, VP of Engineering to discuss recent Humio product features, including bucket storage and the new joins function. 

Christian and Anders introduce themselves, and share a bit about their background. They then describe in more detail a few of the features that were recently announced. 

Humio now supports bucket storage designed for streaming data from major cloud providers. Christian and Anders explain the process behind prioritizing the feature, and how they worked with customers to make it seamless. 

“Lately we’ve been running into customers that are logging two-digit terabytes per day, and who also may have a requirement to save their logs for a year. With traditional SSDs or spinning disks, that would be really hard and very expensive. But with bucket storage, it’s suddenly affordable.”

Anders Jensen, Humio VP Engineering 

“Users in the system won’t see this. The data will just be stored. And if they search back in time that’s only available in bucket storage, they will just type in their search, and it will just work.”

Christian Hvitved, Humio Chief Engineering Officer and founder 

Learn more about bucket storage in the recent blog post: Humio delivers seamless access to live and archived data with bucket storage.

We discuss the new join filter, and how it can be used to enrich data from different data sets. We talk a bit about how customers are using the feature, and how it might be enhanced in the future. 

Find out more about joins in the last week’s blog post: Humio now features joins, query quotas, a new chart engine, and UI updates. 

In this week’s podcast, John talks with Kristian Gausel, Security engineer at Humio. Kristian introduces himself and shares why security is such an important focus for Humio. 

Kristian describes why organizations are more concerned with security, and what is being done about it. We discuss why having a powerful log management system with robust retention helps prepare for the unknown, and makes it easier to get to the bottom of what happened and reduce the time to recovery.

We talk about how GDPR shifts the responsibility for privacy and security from the individual to the company storing personal information, and how logs can help with compliance. We also talk about security considerations for those moving to the cloud, and how to better prepare. 

This week, John talks with Juho Lahdenpera, VP of Finance at Humio. Juho shares his thoughts about joining Humio, and the value the role of finance brings to a tech organization. He stresses the importance of doing a strong technical audit of IT systems to make sure everything is accounted for, compliant, and reporting properly.  

Juho shares his thoughts about how best to work with finance. When asked how best to prepare for a budget request for a technology-related purchase, Juho shares a framework that will help get a purchase approved. 

Victor Gamov is a Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company that makes an event streaming platform based on Apache Kafka. John and Viktor talk about the life of a developer advocate, and about the history of Confluent and Kafka.  

“The cool thing is that Kafka actually enables a lot of modern businesses that you didn’t think that you’ll need until you have it — things like Uber and Uber Eats. The technology enabled them to do the things that they do right now, and specifically stream processing.”

Victor Gamov
Confluent Developer Advocate

Listen to this week’s podcast to learn more about how Humio and Confluent make managing streaming data from distributed systems easier and more efficient for ITOps, DevOps, and Security professionals. Viktor describes how Kafka Connect works with your Humio data. They wrap up their conversation discussing what organizations need to consider addressing in the coming year, and how to be better prepared. 

Seth Hall is the Chief Evangelist, Key Zeek Committer, and co-founder of Corelight. This week, John and Seth talk about combining Humio and Corelight boosts your observability. Seth raves about Humio’s smooth search navigation, and he explains how Humio dashboards are a huge boon to people in SecOps because they provide a powerful, reliable, and customizable way to quickly look for unusual activity.

“Dashboards are interesting from a hunting perspective because you can create a bunch of threads that give you a place to start your search. I look at it like having a bunch of threads hanging from the ceiling that give you an idea of top-performing parts of your system.”

We explore Corelight’s advanced features including its ability to infer if any suspicious activity is occurring in SSH connections. Seth warns about the importance of not missing any traffic on your system, both looking at it as it’s happening and storing logs of what has happened in your system so you can go back and explore what went wrong. 

This week, we visit with Steve Williamson, Ops Team Lead at FreeAgent. FreeAgent uses Humio to monitor the health of their entire infrastructure, and to help solve business problems across the company. Steven shares his thoughts about switching from a traditional logging system that didn’t have the flexibility to do what they need. Learn how they began running Humio in parallel with their existing system, and found Humio is easier, faster, and allows them to log everything without worrying about limits. More importantly, it inspires users across FreeAgent to use Humio in inventive ways.

“Find difficult problems and just start trying to solve them. Don’t worry about the latest fads or the latest tech or web analytic languages.  It’s more valuable to actually find a problem that has got an impact, and concentrate on solving that.”

Humio visits with Mike Mallo, and Jeff Rogers, to talk about Humio joining the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management to make its advanced log management platform available as an out-of-the-box service for IBM Cloud customers. They talk about how keeping up with today’s complex environments can overwhelm IT teams, especially since traditional log management tools present significant incremental costs, data storage problems, and search challenges. By providing an out-of-the-box experience for IBM and Humio customers, the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management solves these pain points.

Are your observability tools as clunky as a hybrid DVD-VHS player? 

Do you need a best-in-breed solution for handling your log management and your APM?

Join us on the Hoot podcast as we talk with Instana CTO Pavlo Baron about the growing need for observability, and how the Humio-Instana integration can help point you to the highest quality data. 

If you’ve listened and want to find out more, sign up for our upcoming Humio-Instana webinar which dives deep into how you can partner these two services to reach the deepest levels of observability. 

Instana-Humio Webcast:

Beyond Observability with Humio and Instana

November 5, 2019, at 8 AM PT/5 PM CET. 

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In this episode of The Hoot, we are joined by Søren Rindal Nielsen, Senior IT Business Consultant. Søren has extensive IT experience in airlines, finance, and government, and he shares his thoughts on building a career in ITOps. 

This episode we are sitting down with Greg Burd, Humio’s Principal Software Engineer to discuss one of our favorite topics: Index Free Logging. We touch on many of the questions people have when considering Humio and what Index Free really means.