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Making Node.js applications quick and sturdy is a tricky task to get right. Nailing the performance just right with the V8 engine Node.js is built on is not at all as simple as one

What is Entity Extraction? Entity extraction is, in the context of search, the process of figuring out which fields a query should target, as opposed to always hitting all fields.

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

What is Entity Extraction? Entity extraction is, in the context of search, the process of figuring out which fields a query should target, as opposed to always hitting all fields.

Monitoring Kafka is a tricky task. As you can see in the first chapter, Kafka key metrics to monitor, the setup, tuning, and operations of Kafka require deep insights into

Open-source software adoption continues to grow within enterprises (even for legacy applications), beyond just startups and born-in-the-cloud software. They may not have full-blown features like the Sematext Kafka monitoring integration

As the first part of a three-part series on Apache Kafka monitoring, this article explores which Kafka metrics are important to monitor and why. When monitoring Kafka, it’s important to also

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.

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

This article (the first of a four-part series) explains how to get started developing an Elasticsearch monitoring strategy. In subsequent articles (part 2, part 3 and part 4), we’ll discuss

Over the years the adoption of Elasticsearch and its ecosystem of tools positioned them as the leaders in the time series data management and analysis market. With strong search capabilities,

By Chris Tozzi If you google “DevOps tools,” you’ll see a dizzying litany of software applications, all promising to simplify your life as a DevOps engineer. This can be an

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

What is entity extraction? Entity extraction is the process of figuring out which fields a query should target, as opposed to always hitting all fields. For example: how to tell,

By Eric Bruno One of the unintended side-effects of the public cloud is the enablement of a platform-agnostic cloud architecture. This means that it’s now easier than ever to mix

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

In the previous three parts of our OpenTracing series, we provided an Overview of OpenTracing, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve,

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