Another Lucene/Solr Revolution happened on September 12-15, 2017 in Las Vegas. Sematext was there, exhibiting AND giving two talks! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and attended our two talks: Optimize Is (Not) Bad for You by Rafal Kuc Solr on Docker – the Good, the […]
How to Detect Malicious Traffic in Your Server Logs: Sematext + Access…
Do you know what portion of your traffic comes from bots? Do you know which bots are good and which ones are bad? Do you know what the bad bots are up to? We all know Googlebot and consider it […]
Introducing Sematext Cloud
While some are hallucinating about building walls, we at Sematext are looking to knock them down. One of the Sematext differentiators is that it’s not just a monitoring solution or just log management solution. Sematext provides monitoring AND log management […]
Metrics & Logs – Together or Separate?
Every modern organization depends on software, and where there is software there are metrics and logs and, one would hope, monitoring of these two critically important types of data. Operations teams have traditionally used two separate sets of tools – […]
Search Guard – Security for Elasticsearch
Note: This is a guest post by Jochen Kressin, the CTO of floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, an open-source X-Pack Security alternative. Elasticsearch is a great piece of software. We really love it. However, there is one major drawback: […]
Securing Elasticsearch and Kibana with Search Guard for free
Note: This is a guest post by Jochen Kressin, the CTO of floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, an open-source X-Pack Security alternative. In this article, we show you how to secure Elasticsearch and Kibana for free using the Community […]
Log Event Context
Being able to see the context of a specific log message is one of those highly sought out features in Kibana that still seems to be missing (though we can see the light at the end of that long tunnel […]
Payment Logic Changes
Up until now, Sematext Cloud users had to first provide their credit card details under their account and then manually assign that credit card to each monitoring or logging App they wanted to use with a paid plan. It turns […]
S3 Archiving & Longer Retention for Logs
Need to have your recent logs searchable for your DevOps team(s) to troubleshoot issues, but also need to archive old logs for compliance reasons? Many organizations need that and Sematext Cloud makes that simple. You can certainly simply pick […]