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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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