When it comes to IT observability and monitoring, machine data pipelines form the nerves if your observability platform is the nerve center.
They create channels through which machine data flows from the sources that generate them to the analytics and monitoring platforms that act on them.
Multiple things often challenge machine data pipelines. They need to deal with complexities at the data source and target destinations while managing their scale and reliability.
A machine data pipeline inadequately sized for storage and elasticity leads to one critical and irreparable failure — data loss.