We’ve written before about the ways companies are forced into underusing, or losing, valuable observability data. Due to budget and tool constraints, this has become the norm — which means too many companies are losing out on what’s possible when you have all your data at your fingertips.
Hydrolix offers a managed, origin-to-edge observability service on AWS, and our solution is now Amazon CloudFront Ready.
You can get set up in 20 minutes or less, and have access to:
- Real-time analytics of all your CloudFront and WAF logs—with support for AWS Elemental coming soon
- 15 months of queryable log retention
- Full data ownership in your own S3 bucket
- Sub-second query latency whether your data is a minute or a year old
All at a lower cost than other observability solutions.
What might be possible if you have access to years of hot, queryable observability data?
Happy, Loyal Customers
With full visibility into your log data, you can quickly learn if your customers are confronting errors, lag, or time-outs. Imagine being able to easily scale up and down to deliver a fast, secure, and engaging shopping experience—without sacrificing performance or security.
With historical data available, you can predict high traffic and be prepared, ensuring you never miss a sale. You can also launch features with confidence, validating the market need with hard data.
Picture a gaming company, an industry that relies heavily on positive word of mouth—negative reviews can be deadly to a reputation. Your log data can directly support creating an excellent player experience:
- With real-time visibility into DDOS attacks and other malicious activities, you can quickly start mitigating—often before they impact your business or your users.
- Catch recurring issues and fix bugs before they can spread.
- Provide better content and buying recommendations to players based on their prior behavior.
- Gain a deeper understanding of how players are interacting with your game so you can create anything from better leveling, to more engaging exploration zones, to attractive bonuses.
Secure, Compliant Systems
Imagine receiving alerts within seconds of ingesting data—empowering you to pinpoint threats such as credential stuffing, APTs, and DDoS attacks as they are happening. And with months or years of hot, historical data to analyze you can perform better threat detection, continually making your systems more secure.
Keeping that much data long-term can balloon costs, a pressing issue for industries required to retain data, like financial services. Hydrolix’s streaming data lake cuts those costs through reducing your storage footprint 90% or more.
Compliance also becomes difficult the more places you have to send and store your data. With Hydrolix for AWS, all log data remains on AWS in your local region, making it much easier to be compliant with data sovereignty regulations.
Also, think back to that gaming company. This access to your log data also helps your bottom line—catch account sharing, banned tooling, and other security lapses that eat into your margins.
Delighted, Engaged Viewers
Media and entertainment companies serve many audiences: viewers, advertisers, analysts, and more. Any delays or lags impact that experience and threaten to lose your audience. Many companies don’t have the ability to alert right after ingest, which means they can’t perform real-time data analysis and get immediate insights.
With granular visibility into your metrics and that ability to act, you can fight the loading bar, mitigate piracy, and improve low-quality streams before they impact your end-user experience. Add in extensive historical data and you’re ready to prevent future slowdowns and errors, based on behavioral analysis you were never able to do previously.
Be Open to the Possibilities
The old adage that knowledge is power is true—and data is knowledge. Don’t throw away your chance at making research-backed decisions that will help your business build resiliency and grow.
- Learn how monitoring CDNs with Hydrolix for AWS can provide valuable real user monitoring (RUM) data to better understand how your end users are engaging with your content.
- Learn why it’s necessary to monitor WAF logs to protect your digital assets.
You can start ingesting data and getting insights in under twenty minutes. Follow along with the Getting started instructions in our docs and sign up for a 7-day free trial.
