OK, so you've decided to move from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch. Maybe our comparison helped you decide and maybe you've checked our guide on how to perform the migration. But how

In the website monitoring and observability space, there are few names that hold as much weight as Splunk. Established in 2003, Splunk is highly focused on log data visualization and

Definition: What Are Core Web Vitals? Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that Google uses to assess a user's experience on a web page. These metrics help developers

A Cloud Challenge: Keep Track Of Your Inventory Managing agile software deployment for cloud infrastructure can be challenging. Deployments should be automated whenever possible to ensure consistent version management. Nevertheless,

What are the essential things to monitor in your infrastructure? Sure, CPU utilization, memory usage, and IO throughput. However, once you notice a significant load somewhere in your infrastructure you

Logagent is a modern, open-source, light-weight data shipper with out of the box and extensible log parsing, on-disk buffering, secure transport and bulk indexing to Elasticsearch and Sematext Cloud. Its

You can now create monitoring integrations for your technology stack easier than ever before. We’ve recently opened-sourced Sematext’s Monitoring Agent, reworked it, and made it fully pluggable, making it possible for

The popular Servers View has been overhauled. It’s both more modern looking and more powerful than the old version. Some things you can do with the new Servers view: Filter

Logtrail is a popular Kibana plugin that makes Kibana look like Papertrail. Sematext’s Logtrail view in Kibana gives you the terminal-like experience of exploring logs without the pain of needing

What can you do with a couple of IoT devices, Node.js, Elasticsearch, and MQTT?  You can put together your own Internet of Things setup for measuring air pollution, like I

This is a guest post from Filippo Balicchia. Filippo contributed Logagent plugins for Apache Kafka the details of which he is sharing in this post.  Filippo is a software engineer

Elasticsearch is already quite popular and its popularity just keeps growing. Looking at Google Trends chart for the last 5 years shows this nicely: There are a number of reasons

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

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

Logsene, our hosted ELK stack now part of Sematext Cloud, exposes the Elasticsearch API. As a Logsene user you may or may not be aware of this.  If you have

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

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

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

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

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

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

We’ve refreshed not only the Sematext Cloud UI, but also our backend, or one of them at least. Last week, we’ve updated Elasticsearch to the latest 5.x version.  Along with

Need we say more?  If you’ve used Sematext Cloud recently you’ve noticed the UI looks and behaves differently.  Indeed, we rewrote the whoooooole front-end using modern front-end technologies like React.js

We’ve restructured the UI …. bigly :).   Everything you need can be quickly accessed via tabs on the left.  Account section is exposed, and Team-related functionality (invitations to apps

We’ve changed how Alert Rules & Notification Hooks are handled in Sematext Cloud.  They now live at Account level, not App level, which makes their management much simpler, more intuitive,

You can now hook up Sematext Cloud Alerts to a number of different Notification Hooks: Email Any custom WebHook Slack PagerDuty HipChat VictorOps OpsGenie BigPanda Pushover - for Android, iPhone,

Unlike logs, which tend to be high volume, events are a little more infrequent, a little more special.  Events are things like alerts, or deploys, or builds, or…  Ultimately though,

One of the Sematext differentiators is that it’s not just a monitoring solution or just log management solution.  It’s monitoring AND log management in a single solution.  This single pane

Besides completely revamping the Sematext Cloud user interface recently (hello ReactJS & Redux!), we’ve also made some changes to how certain features work. One of them is related to Alert