At the end of November, we’ll be migrating the Sematext Logs backend from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

October 10, 2024
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Java Logging Basics: Concepts, Tools, and Best Practices

Imagine you're a detective trying to solve a crime, but all the evidence is invisible.  Sounds impossible, right?  That's exactly what it's like trying to debug a Java application without proper logging.  Java logging is your magnifying glass, your fingerprint kit, and your trusty notepad all rolled into one. It's the unsung hero that helps…
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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

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,

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

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