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

Logging

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.

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

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

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

iOS SDK for Log Shipping & Analytics

Want to ship logs and other events from your iOS apps?   We’ve open-sourced the iOS SDK for shipping logs from iOS apps to Sematext Cloud.  This library not only

Android SDK for Log Shipping & Analytics

A few months back we’ve silently built and open-sourced an Android SDK for shipping logs from mobile apps to Sematext Cloud.   This library not only lets you send your

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

Network Security with Bro (now Zeek) and 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

What is Syslog: Daemons, Message Formats and Protocols

Pretty much everyone's heard about syslog: with its roots in the 80s, it's still used for a lot of the log management done today. Mostly because of its long history, syslog

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