October 10, 2024
18 minutes read
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…
Read moreReact.js & Redux, Pretty Charts, Better Dashboards
Need we say more? If you’ve used Sematext Cloud recently you’ve noticed the UI looks and behaves differently. Indeed, we rewrote the whoooooole front-end using modern front-end technologies like React.js
Navigation, Discoverability, and Accessibility
We’ve restructured the UI …. bigly :). Everything you need can be quickly accessed via tabs on the left. Account section is exposed, and Team-related functionality (invitations to apps
Alert Rule & Notification Hook Management
We’ve changed how Alert Rules & Notification Hooks are handled in Sematext Cloud. They now live at Account level, not App level, which makes their management much simpler, more intuitive,
Expanded ChatOps Integrations
You can now hook up Sematext Cloud Alerts to a number of different Notification Hooks: Email Any custom WebHook Slack PagerDuty HipChat VictorOps OpsGenie BigPanda Pushover - for Android, iPhone,
Events are 1st Class Citizens
Unlike logs, which tend to be high volume, events are a little more infrequent, a little more special. Events are things like alerts, or deploys, or builds, or… Ultimately though,
Tighter Metrics & Logs Integration
One of the Sematext differentiators is that it’s not just a monitoring solution or just log management solution. It’s monitoring AND log management in a single solution. This single pane
Alert Rules & Notification Hooks Sharing
Besides completely revamping the Sematext Cloud user interface recently (hello ReactJS & Redux!), we’ve also made some changes to how certain features work. One of them is related to Alert
Docker Security: Using Docker Secrets with Swarm
This post shows how to use Docker Secrets in Docker Swarm mode. For our example we’ll show how to use Docker Secrets to encrypt and safely store tokens used by
Sematext @ CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Berlin
On March 29-30, Cloud NativeCon + KubeCon – Berlin, Germany brings together almost 1500 developers, architects, technical leaders, CIOs, CTOs, and analysts from open source cloud native communities – all
Sematext Solr AutoComplete: Introduction and Howto
Sematext Solr AutoComplete is an open-source Solr add-on that provides suggest-as-you-type functionality. In this post we'll explain how you can install it, load the autocomplete collection/core with suggestions and how