OK, so you want to hook up rsyslog with Logstash. If you don’t remember why you want that, let me give you a few hints: Logstash can do lots of things, it’s easy to set up but tends to be […]
Solr Redis Plugin Use Cases and Performance Tests
The Solr Redis Plugin is an extension for Solr that provides a query parser that uses data stored in Redis. It is open-sourced on Github by Sematext. This tool is basically a QParserPlugin that establishes a connection to Redis and […]
Announcement: Redis Monitoring in SPM
Don’t worry, we didn’t just stop at Storm monitoring and metrics while improving SPM. We’re also happy to announce support for Redis. Specifically, here are some of the key Redis metrics SPM monitors: Used Memory Used Memory Peak Used Memory […]
2016 Year in Review: Monitoring and Logging Highlights
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 […]
5 Logstash Alternatives
Last updated on Dec 14, 2017 When it comes to centralizing logs to Elasticsearch, the first log shipper that comes to mind is Logstash. People hear about it even if it’s not clear what it does: – Bob: I’m looking […]
Open Source Docker Monitoring & Logging
Pets ⇒ Cattle ⇒ Orchestration Docker is growing by leaps and bounds, and along with it its ecosystem. Being light, the predominant container deployment involves running just a single app or service inside each container. Most software products and services […]
Logagent-js – alternative to logstash, filebeat, fluentd, rsyslog?
What is the easiest way to parse, ship and analyze my web server logs? You should know that I’m a Node.js fan boy and not very thrilled with the idea of running a heavy process like Logstash on my low memory server, hosting my […]
2015 in Review
Another year is behind us, and it’s been another good year for us at Sematext. Here are the highlights in the chronological order. If you prefer looking non-chronological overview, look further below. January We started the year by doing a […]
Top Node.js Metrics to Watch
Monitoring Node.js Applications has special challenges. The dynamic nature of the language provides many “opportunities” for developers to produce memory leaks, and a single function blocking the event queue can have a huge impact on the overall application performance. Parallel […]
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