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

S3 Archiving & Longer Retention for Logs

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

iOS SDK for Log Shipping & Analytics

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

Android SDK for Log Shipping & Analytics

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

Elasticsearch 5.x and Kibana 5.x

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

React.js & Redux, Pretty Charts, Better Dashboards

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

Navigation, Discoverability, and Accessibility

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

Alert Rule & Notification Hook Management

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,

Expanded ChatOps Integrations

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,

Events are 1st Class Citizens

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,

Tighter Metrics & Logs Integration

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

Alert Rules & Notification Hooks Sharing

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

Docker Security: Using Docker Secrets with Swarm

This post shows how to use Docker Secrets in Docker Swarm mode. For our example we’ll show how to use Docker Secrets to encrypt and safely store tokens used by

Sematext @ CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Berlin

On March 29-30, Cloud NativeCon + KubeCon – Berlin, Germany brings together almost 1500 developers, architects, technical leaders, CIOs, CTOs, and analysts from open source cloud native communities – all

Sematext Solr AutoComplete: Introduction and Howto

Sematext Solr AutoComplete is an open-source Solr add-on that provides suggest-as-you-type functionality. In this post we'll explain how you can install it, load the autocomplete collection/core with suggestions and how

5 Steps to MeteorJS Monitoring

Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for developing modern web and mobile applications. It includes developer tools, websockets, MongoDB integration, and a package manager.  Atmosphere.js is the Meteor package manager.

[VIDEO] Elasticsearch for logs and metrics

Since we work with Elasticsearch and Solr on a daily basis and know so much about them we like helping others improve their knowledge of these technologies, not only through

Network Security with Bro (now Zeek) and Elasticsearch

Intrusion detection systems generate highly valuable logs with network usage details and alerts. They collect vast amounts of data and typically store them in structures with a large number of

Solr New Metrics API: Quick look at Solr 6.4

As you know, in Sematext we looooove logs and metrics and we enjoy playing with them on a daily basis. We have our Logsene, which is all about logs and