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We recently had a presentation at Activate 2018 about entity extraction in the context of a product search. For example: how to tell, when the user typed in Activate 2018,

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

Unless you are using a very old version of Elasticsearch you’re able to define pipelines within Elasticsearch itself and have those pipelines process your data in the same way you’d

This recipe is similar to the previous rsyslog + Redis + Logstash one, except that we’ll use Kafka as a central buffer and connecting point instead of Redis. You’ll have

Here at Sematext we use Java and rely on Elasticsearch for our hosted ELK logging SaaS, a lot. We like them so much that we regularly share our logging experience

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

"Why does the 'docker logs' command fail?", is one of our frequently asked questions. The answer is simple and mentioned in the Docker documentation: "The docker logs command is not available for drivers

Elasticsearch comes with good out-of-the-box Garbage Collection settings. So good in fact that the Definitive Guide recommends not changing them. While we agree that most use-cases wouldn’t benefit from GC

The rather broad definition of personal data in the GDPR requires paying special attention to log data. GDPR and personal data in web server logs is a popular topic in

2017 was a good year for Sematext in many ways. On the engineering side of the organization, we've made a number of changes that had a positive impact and paved

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

Since we’ve been working with Solr on a daily basis for over a decade now and know so much about it, we like helping others improve their knowledge of these

Centralizing logs to Elasticsearch? Of course, the first log shipper that comes to mind is Logstash. When you get into it, you realize centralizing logs often implies a bunch of

Many of our customers use AWS EC2. In the context of Elasticsearch consulting or support, one question we often get is: should we use AWS Elasticsearch Service instead of deploying Elasticsearch ourselves? The

Docker changed not only how applications are deployed, it also changed the workflow for log management. Instead of writing logs to files, containers write logs to the console (stdout/stderr) and

One of the things that were extensively changed in Solr 6.0 is the Streaming Expressions and what we can do with them (hint: amazing stuff!). We already described Solr SQL

With the recent release of Apache Lucene and Solr 6, we should familiarize ourselves with the juicy features that come with them. We have the new default Similarity implementation -