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Java 9 Elasticsearch Benchmark

TL;DR: The main question here is: How Does Java 9 Work with Elasticsearch 6? It works well, but don't expect miracles. Unless you're using G1, then there are some miracles. With

How to Detect Malicious Traffic in Your Server Logs: Sematext + Access Watch

Do you know what portion of your traffic comes from bots? Do you know which bots are good and which ones are bad? Do you know what the bad bots

Introducing Sematext Cloud

While some are hallucinating about building walls, we at Sematext are looking to knock them down. One of the Sematext differentiators is that it’s not just a monitoring solution or

Introducing Instant Templates and Mappings

Logsene, our hosted ELK stack now part of Sematext Cloud, exposes the Elasticsearch API. As a Logsene user you may or may not be aware of this.  If you have

Metrics & Logs – Together or Separate?

Every modern organization depends on software, and where there is software there are metrics and logs and, one would hope, monitoring of these two critically important types of data. Operations

Search Guard – Security for Elasticsearch

Note: This is a guest post by Jochen Kressin, the CTO of floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, an open-source X-Pack Security alternative. Elasticsearch is a great piece of software.

Securing Elasticsearch and Kibana with Search Guard for free

Note: This is a guest post by Jochen Kressin, the CTO of floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, an open-source X-Pack Security alternative. In this article, we show you how

Docker Log Management & Enrichment

Over the last several months we’ve made all kinds of improvements to Sematext Docker Agent (SDA).  If you’re not familiar with SDA yet, here it is in a nutshell: Sematext

Solr V2 API – Quick Look

Last updated on Jan 11, 2018 We are all used to the Solr API that has been present in Solr from its beginnings. We send the data using HTTP protocol,

Payment Logic Changes

Up until now, Sematext Cloud users had to first provide their credit card details under their account and then manually assign that credit card to each monitoring or logging App