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New Container View in infrastructure monitoring
Containers are eating the world and the newly added Containers view in Sematext Cloud helps you manage that. You can experience container monitoring with the new Containers view that provides you with enhanced visibility into all your hosts and containers, drawing your […]
New Servers View in Sematext Cloud
The popular Servers View has been overhauled. It’s both more modern looking and more powerful than the old version. Some things you can do with the new Servers view: Filter what you see by host, app or app type. Filters […]
Logtrail + Kibana = Retro Terminal Experience
Logtrail is a popular Kibana plugin that makes Kibana look like Papertrail. Sematext’s Logtrail view in Kibana gives you the terminal-like experience of exploring logs without the pain of needing to ssh into machines. With Logtrail you can see new […]
Monitoring Audit Logs with auditd and Auditbeat
The Linux Audit framework is a kernel feature (paired with userspace tools) that can log system calls. For example, opening a file, killing a process or creating a network connection. These audit logs can be used to monitor systems for […]
Docker Log Driver Alternatives
“Why does the ‘docker logs’ command fail?“, is one of our frequently asked questions. The answer is simple and mentioned in the Docker documentation: “The docker logs command is not available for drivers other than json-file and journald.” Amazing as it sounds, it’s true. It is […]
Jaeger vs Zipkin – OpenTracing Distributed Tracers
In the previous three parts of our OpenTracing series, we provided an Overview of OpenTracing, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve, we looked at Zipkin – a popular open-source distributed tracer […]
Garbage Collection Settings for Elasticsearch Master Nodes
Elasticsearch comes with good out-of-the-box Garbage Collection settings. So good in fact that the Definitive Guide recommends not changing them. While we agree that most use-cases wouldn’t benefit from GC tuning, especially when it turns out there simply isn’t enough […]
OpenTracing: Jaeger as Distributed Tracer
In the previous two parts of OpenTracing series, we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve and looked at Zipkin – a popular open-source distributed tracer. In this blog post, we will look at Jaeger, […]