2017 is almost here and, like last year, we thought we’d share how 2016 went for us. We remain committed to be your “one-stop shop” for all things Elasticsearch and Solr: from Consulting, Production Support, and Training, to complementing that […]
Migrating to SolrCloud from Solr Master-Slave
Last updated on Jan 9, 2018 Nowadays there are more and more organizations searching for fault-tolerant and highly available solutions for various parts of their infrastructure, including search, which evolved from merely a “nice to have” feature to the first class citizen and […]
Making Elasticsearch in Docker Swarm Elastic
Running on Elasticsearch on Docker sounds like a natural fit – both technologies promise elasticity. However, running a truly elastic Elasticsearch cluster on Docker Swarm became somewhat difficult with Docker 1.12 in Swarm mode. Why? Since Elasticsearch gave up on […]
Introducing Sematable – ReactJS & Redux Table
Back in 2011 – more than half a decade ago(!) – we’ve reviewed Top JavaScript Dynamic Table Libraries. Clearly, a lot has changed since then. Earlier this year, we started reworking our SPM & Logsene front-ends, building them on top […]
Kubernetes Containers: Logging and Monitoring support
In this post we will: Introduce Kubernetes concepts and motivation for Kubernetes-aware monitoring and logging tooling Show how to deploy the Sematext Docker Agent to each Kubernetes node with DaemonSet Point out key Kubernetes metrics and log elements to help […]
Running Solr in Docker: How & Why
Docker is all the rage these days, but one doesn’t hear about running Solr on Docker very much. Last month, we gave a talk on the topic of running containerized Solr at the Lucene Revolution conference in Boston, the biggest […]
Logging Libraries vs Log Shippers
Last updated on Dec 14, 2017 In the context of centralizing logs (say, to Logsene or your own Elasticsearch), we often get the question of whether one should log directly from the application (e.g. via an Elasticsearch or syslog appender) or use […]