Rafal Kuć

One of the nice things about our log management and analytics solution Logsene is that you can talk to it using various log shippers.  You can use Logstash, or you can use syslog protocol capable tools like rsyslog, or you […]

Last updated on Jan 10, 2018 Many Solr users need to handle multi-tenant data. There are different techniques that deal with this situation: some good, some not-so-good. Using routing to handle such data is one of the solutions, and it allows one […]

With the release of Solr 5.0, the most recent major version of this great search server, we didn’t only get improvements and changes from the Lucene library.  Of course, we did get features like: segments control sum segments identifiers Lucene […]

One of the great things about Logsene, our log management tool, is that you don’t need to care about the back-end – you know, where you store your logs. You just pick a log shipper (here are Top 5 Log Shippers), point it to […]

Last year at Berlin Buzzwords two Sematext Engineers had the opportunity to give two talks. Radu talked about “JSON Logging with Elasticsearch” (video, slides) and Rafał did the second round of Solr vs Elasticsearch in his talk “Battle of the Giants, […]

We all know how good it is to have abstraction layers in software we create. We tend to abstract implementation from the method contracts using interfaces, we use n-tier architectures so that we can abstract and divide different system layers […]

During last  year’s Lucene Revolution conference in Dublin we had the opportunity to give four talks, one of which was Scaling Solr with SolrCloud. Through it we wanted to share our experiences around scaling Solr, especially as we have experience […]

As you know, at Sematext, we are not only about consulting services, but also about administration, monitoring, and data analysis. Because of that, during last year’s Lucene Revolution conference in Dublin we gave a talk about administration and monitoring of SolrCloud […]

Last year at Berlin Buzzwords we were proud to give three talks. Alex talked about “Real-time Analytics with HBase” (slides, video), Otis talked about large scale monitoring in his talked titled “Large Scale ElasticSearch, Solr & HBase Performance Monitoring” (slides, […]