Let’s Encrypt has announced that it will no longer send certificate expiration notification emails. What now?

OpenTracing: Zipkin as Distributed Tracer

In part one of the OpenTracing blog series, we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve. One of the key

Linux Observability with eBPF

Recent Linux kernel releases are equipped with a powerful Linux monitoring framework for kernel instrumentation. It has its roots in what historically was approached as BPF. What is BPF? BPF (Berkeley

OpenTracing: Jaeger as Distributed Tracer

In the previous two parts of OpenTracing series, we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining what OpenTracing is and does, how it works and what it aims to achieve and looked at Zipkin - a popular open-source

How OpenTracing Works: Basics and Terminology

In this second part of OpenTracing 5 part series, we'll dive into the fundamental building blocks that underpin the inner workings of any OpenTracing-compatible tracer. As we already mentioned, OpenTracing

OpenTracing Overview: Distributed Tracing’s Emerging Industry Standard

What was traditionally known as just Monitoring has clearly been going through a renaissance over the last few years. The industry as a whole is finally moving away from having Monitoring

Using Solr to Tag Text

Over the years, natural language processing, in the world of search, went from interesting detail to a must have, especially in areas such as e-commerce. Engineers started incorporating classification, synonym

Monitoring ClickHouse with Sematext

As shown in Part 1 - ClickHouse Monitoring Key Metrics - the setup, tuning, and operations of ClickHouse require deep insights into the performance metrics such as locks, replication status, merge

ClickHouse Monitoring Tools

By Chris Tozzi So you’ve got a ClickHouse DB, and you’re looking for a tool to monitor it. You’ve come to the right place. In this blog post, which is

Key Metrics for Monitoring ClickHouse

By Chris Riley If you keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the world of databases, you are probably familiar with ClickHouse, a columnar database management system designed for OLAP.

Search Relevance – Solr & Elasticsearch Similarities

What is Search Relevance Similarity Lucene has a lot of options for configuring similarity. By extension, Solr and Elasticsearch have the same options. Similarity makes the base of your relevancy

5 Best Practices for Real User Monitoring

More than likely you’re here because you’ve made the leap or are thinking of making the leap in investing in a Real Monitoring Solution. Congrats! You’re one step closer to

What Is Apdex Score: Definition, Calculation & How to Improve It

Looking for ways to measure your users’ experience? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, we will dive into the Apdex score, one of the main indicators for

Solr Learning To Rank and Streaming Expressions

During the Entity Extraction For Product Searches talk that Radu Gheorghe and I gave at Activate conference in Montreal last year, we talked about various natural language processing and machine learning algorithms. We

RUM vs. APM: How They’re Similar and Different

By Chris Tozzi RUM and APM are two important acronyms to know if you work in software development or DevOps today. Moreover, not only is it important to be able to define

Use Case Focused Elasticsearch Online Training Classes to Fit Your Exact Needs

We’ve been working with Elasticsearch since its inception, either with clients on consulting for Elasticsearch products and Elasticsearch production support, or by building our own hosted log management solution. For

Generating Word Embeddings with Gensim’s word2vec

During our Activate presentation, we talked about how to do query expansion by dynamically generating synonyms. Instead of statically defining synonyms lists, we showed a demo of how you could

The New Version of Logagent Enriches Container Logs with Metadata and GeoIP

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

Field Stats for Elasticsearch 6.x

We're excited to announce the release of the Field Stats API plugin for Elasticsearch. The Field Stats API used to be present from Elasticsearch 1.6 to 5.6, to provide efficient