Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud Management

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) Alternatives Comparison

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

Jaeger vs Zipkin – OpenTracing Distributed Tracers

NOTE: If you are truly looking to learn about OpenTracing you must be an archeologist. OpenTracing morphed into OpenTelemetry. In the previous three parts of our OpenTracing series, we provided

5 Benefits to Run Elastic Stack in the Cloud

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

OpenTracing: Zipkin as Distributed Tracer

NOTE: If you are truly looking to learn about OpenTracing you must be an archeologist. OpenTracing morphed into OpenTelemetry. In part one of the OpenTracing blog series, we provided a

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

NOTE: If you are truly looking to learn about OpenTracing you must be an archeologist. OpenTracing morphed into OpenTelemetry. In the previous two parts of OpenTracing series, we provided a good OpenTracing overview, explaining

How OpenTracing Works: Basics and Terminology

NOTE: If you are truly looking to learn about OpenTracing you must be an archeologist. OpenTracing morphed into OpenTelemetry. In this second part of OpenTracing 5 part series, we'll dive

OpenTracing Overview: Distributed Tracing’s Emerging Industry Standard

NOTE: If you are truly looking to learn about OpenTracing you must be an archeologist. OpenTracing morphed into OpenTelemetry. What was traditionally known as just Monitoring has clearly been going

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