Last updated on Jan 8, 2018 With the release of Solr 7 the community around it produced yet another great version of this search engine. As usual, there is an extensive list of changes, bug fixes and improvements that were […]
Shipping data to AWS Elasticsearch with Logagent
Elasticsearch is already quite popular and its popularity just keeps growing. Looking at Google Trends chart for the last 5 years shows this nicely: There are a number of reasons why Elasticsearch is popular: it is very easy to get […]
Top 15 Solr vs. Elasticsearch Differences
Last updated on Jan 11, 2018 Solr vs. Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch vs. Solr. Which one is better? How are they different? Which one should you use? Before we start, check out two useful Cheat Sheets to guide you through both Solr and […]
Introducing Instant Templates and Mappings
Logsene, our hosted ELK stack now part of Sematext Cloud, exposes the Elasticsearch API. As a Logsene user you may or may not be aware of this. If you have experience with Elasticsearch though, if you’re aware of its rich […]
Solr V2 API – Quick Look
Last updated on Jan 11, 2018 We are all used to the Solr API that has been present in Solr from its beginnings. We send the data using HTTP protocol, we include all parameters in the URL itself, and we […]
Kafka Connect Elasticsearch: Consuming and Indexing with Kafka Connect
Last updated on Jan 8, 2018 In the world of DevOps, metric collection, log centralization and analysis Apache Kafka is the most commonly used middleware. More specifically, it is used as a fast, persistent queue between data sources like log […]
Solr New Metrics API: Quick look at Solr 6.4
As you know, in Sematext we looooove logs and metrics and we enjoy playing with them on a daily basis. We have our Logsene, which is all about logs and their analysis. We have our SPM which can monitor half […]
How to ship Kibana Server Logs to Elasticsearch
Last updated on Dec 14, 2017 When dealing with log centralization in your organization you have to start with something. Often times people start by collecting logs for the most crucial pieces of software, and frequently one chooses to ship […]
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 […]