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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

Field Stats for Elasticsearch 6.x

We're excited to announce the release of the Field Stats API plugin for Elasticsearch. The Field Stats API used to be present from Elasticsearch 1.6 to 5.6, to provide efficient

Named Entity Extraction with OpenNLP

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,

Now Open Source: Sematext Monitoring Agent

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

Elasticsearch Ingest Node vs Logstash Performance

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

Recipe: How to integrate rsyslog with Kafka and Logstash

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

Handling Multiline Stack Traces with Logstash

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

New Servers View in Sematext Cloud

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 + Kibana = Retro Terminal Experience

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