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Significant Events

Significant Events reads about 100 documents from a log source and writes detection rules from them. This series follows what those rules catch during a real outage.

How Elastic Significant Events turns 100 log samples into detection rules
Observability Labs

How Elastic Significant Events turns 100 log samples into detection rules

Pick the wrong 100 and you get `log.level: error`, a rule that fires on every request or finds nothing at all, and log sampling is what decides between them.

Kevin Lacabane
Your logs already wrote the alert: Generating ES|QL detection queries in Elasticsearch
Observability Labs

Your logs already wrote the alert: Generating ES|QL detection queries in Elasticsearch

On the OpenTelemetry demo, the top generated ES|QL detection query matches 0 documents while the shop is healthy and 676 during a payment outage.

Achyut Jhunjhunwala