People love Splunk. But not its price. So people are always on a lookout for a good Splunk alternative. Many of those people migrated from Splunk to ELK Stack or Hosted ELK Stack solutions like Logsene. The situation with Elastic […]
Author: Stefan Thies
Docker Log Management & Enrichment
Over the last several months we’ve made all kinds of improvements to Sematext Docker Agent (SDA). If you’re not familiar with SDA yet, here it is in a nutshell Sematext Docker Agent is a modern, open-source, Docker-native monitoring and log […]
Docker Orchestrations Compared: Kubernetes vs Amazon ECS vs Docker Cloud / Swarm / EE / Cloud (PART I)
Containerized software is riding a wave of growth, according to latest RightScale survey. At Sematext we see this growth trend via our Docker monitoring adoption and via Sematext Docker Agent popularity on Docker Hub, where it crossed 1M+ pulls line. […]
Docker Security: Using Docker Secrets with Swarm
This post shows how to use Docker Secrets in Docker Swarm mode. For our example we’ll show how to use Docker Secrets to encrypt and safely store tokens used by Sematext Docker Agent for shipping Docker metrics and logs. Containerized […]
5 Steps to MeteorJS Monitoring
Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for developing modern web and mobile applications. It includes developer tools, websockets, MongoDB integration, and a package manager. Atmosphere.js is the Meteor package manager. Unfortunately, it doesn’t list many Meteor monitoring solutions. Luckily, thanks […]
Network Security: Analyze & Search Bro IDS Logs with Elasticsearch
Intrusion detection systems generate highly valuable logs with network usage details and alerts. They collect vast amounts of data and typically store them in structures with a large number of fields. To make sense of so much data and to […]
Log Management for IBM Bluemix and Cloud Foundry
Enterprises without DevOps teams and culture typically experience long applications deployment cycles. Once developers make a new release the operations team needs to deploy it to one of the existing or new servers, and it often takes a long time […]
Elasticsearch security: Authentication, Encryption, Backup
The recent ransom attack on public Elasticsearch instances showed that Elasticsearch security is still a hot topic. Elasticsearch was not the only target – tens of thousands of poorly configured MongoDB databases have been compromised over the past week, too, […]
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 […]
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