"Why does the 'docker logs' command fail?", is one of our frequently asked questions. The answer is simple and mentioned in the Docker documentation: "The docker logs command is not available for drivers

Elasticsearch comes with good out-of-the-box Garbage Collection settings. So good in fact that the Definitive Guide recommends not changing them. While we agree that most use-cases wouldn’t benefit from GC

The rather broad definition of personal data in the GDPR requires paying special attention to log data. GDPR and personal data in web server logs is a popular topic in

2017 was a good year for Sematext in many ways. On the engineering side of the organization, we've made a number of changes that had a positive impact and paved

What can you do with a couple of IoT devices, Node.js, Elasticsearch, and MQTT?  You can put together your own Internet of Things setup for measuring air pollution, like I

Since we’ve been working with Elasticsearch on a daily basis for more than 7 years now and know so much about it, we like helping others improve their knowledge of

Since we’ve been working with Solr on a daily basis for over a decade now and know so much about it, we like helping others improve their knowledge of these

Centralizing logs to Elasticsearch? Of course, the first log shipper that comes to mind is Logstash. When you get into it, you realize centralizing logs often implies a bunch of

Many of our customers use AWS EC2. In the context of Elasticsearch consulting or support, one question we often get is: should we use AWS Elasticsearch Service instead of deploying Elasticsearch ourselves? The

Docker changed not only how applications are deployed, it also changed the workflow for log management. Instead of writing logs to files, containers write logs to the console (stdout/stderr) and