At the end of November, we’ll be migrating the Sematext Logs backend from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

Logging

Logging vs Monitoring: How are They Different & Why You Need Both

By Chris Tozzi Logging or monitoring? If you deploy and manage an application, these are the two key techniques available to you for helping to ensure that the application meets

Shipping Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Logs Made Easy

Kubernetes is gaining popularity every day. Using an Ingress controller is the preferred method of allowing external access to the services in a cluster. This makes ingress logs incredibly important

Elasticsearch security: Authentication, Encryption, Backup

There’s no need to look outside the ELK Stack for apps to ensure data protection.  Basic Elasticsearch Security features are free and include a lot of functionality to help you

Logstash Tutorial: Getting Started Guide for Shipping Logs

Looking to learn about Logstash as quickly as possible? This Logstash Tutorial is for you: we’ll install Logstash and push some Apache logs to Elasticsearch in less than 5 minutes.

14 Monitoring and Logging Best Practices and Standards for Monitoring

When managing cloud-native applications, it’s essential to have end-to-end visibility into what’s happening at any given time. This is especially true because of the distributed and dynamic nature of cloud-native

Monitoring Linux Audit Logs with auditd and Auditbeat

The Linux Audit framework is a kernel feature (paired with userspace tools) that can log system calls. For example, opening a file, killing a process or creating a network connection.

Monitoring Elasticsearch with Sematext

As shown in Elasticsearch Key Metrics, the setup, tuning, and operations of Elasticsearch require deep insights into the performance metrics such as index rate, query rate, query latency, merge times, and

Centralized AWS Lambda Logs with Kinesis and Serverless

The key to gaining serverless observability is sending all AWS Lambda Logs to a central location where you can later group, filter and make sense of them. Sematext is a full-stack

Elastic Stack Features (formerly X-Pack) Alternatives Comparison

Elastic Stack Features (formerly X-Pack) is an Elastic Stack extension that bundles security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, and graph capabilities. One could use either all or specific components. Elastic Stack Features as

5 Benefits to Run Elastic Stack in the Cloud

By Chris Riley What is the Elastic Stack? Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana — the trio better known as Elastic Stack (or ELK, if you prefer a term that is now