Every business needs the ability to see how their site is doing, and troubleshoot any issues that may arise. Our real-time logging enables just that, so you can easily view your traffic, understand your site health, and make the changes you need as quickly as possible. And today, we’re thrilled to give you even more control: in addition to the providers you can already choose from, we’ve added Honeycomb and Splunk, and boosted our capabilities with Google BigQuery to support even more logs per second.
Read moreObservability: Embracing the messiness of distributed systems
In this fireside chat, CEO and founder of Honeycomb Charity Majors spoke with Fastly VP of Data Governance, Lisa Phillips. They discussed embracing messiness, enabling customers to fix their own problems, and the power of…
Why performance is key to digital transformation
In the previous post in this series, we explored how leading organizations are staying ahead of the digital transformation curve. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at performance, a key component of successful…
More ownership, more control: announcing our new logging endpoints
Every business needs the ability to see how their site is doing, and troubleshoot any issues that may arise. Our real-time logging enables just that, so you can easily view your traffic, understand your site…
Accelerate your digital transformation
Digital transformation is one of the most-discussed topics at executive events — but what does it really mean for businesses? We’ll explore the right framework for businesses of all kinds to think through digital transformation,…
Altitude SF: Tales of scale, video insights, and making the internet better for everyone
1.4 billion active monthly users, 10 billion requests per day, and 5.2 TB per second peak traffic — these are some of the staggering numbers we heard about at our 7th Altitude conference where customers,…
Trust at scale: Introducing Platform TLS and Subscriber Provided Prefix
Today we’re announcing two new offerings on the Fastly platform: Platform TLS and Subscriber Provided Prefix. Both empower companies to provide fast, secure web experiences to their customers and end-users, while reducing the workload on…
Testing HTTP freshness in CDNs
CDNs all use HTTP caching to optimize performance, but sometimes different CDNs do it in slightly different ways and that can make things more complicated for our customers. This blog post makes a case for…
7 business uses for logging
To create effective logs, you first need to consider what you’re trying to achieve in capturing and maintaining logs. If you don’t begin with a clear business goal and proactively plan your logging strategy, you…
3 Common logging challenges
Effective logging requires thoughtful planning and consistent tuning and maintenance. Here are three of the biggest challenges of logging.
Patterns for authentication at the edge
Identity is a boring, but necessary element of most website builds. Validating a user’s identity and access rights is something that is in the critical performance path, required site-wide, and often implemented in a bespoke…
Fastly's Response to SegmentSmack
A remotely exploitable denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the Linux kernel, called SegmentSmack, was made public on August 6th, 2018 as CVE-2018-5390. Fastly was made aware of this vulnerability prior to that date through a responsible…
Elevating the user experience at Fastly
We’re excited to share several recent user experience updates that enhance WAF, Image Optimizer, and user management functionality in the Fastly control panel.
