At the end of November, we’ll be migrating the Sematext Logs backend from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch

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Elasticsearch security: Authentication, Encryption, Backup

There’s no need to look outside the ELK Stack for apps to ensure data protection.  Basic Elasticsearch Security features are free and include a lot of functionality to help you

How to ship Kibana Server Logs to Elasticsearch

When dealing with log centralization in your organization you have to start with something. Often times people start by collecting logs for the most crucial pieces of software, and frequently

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

Elasticsearch 5.x and Kibana 5.x

We’ve refreshed not only the Sematext Cloud UI, but also our backend, or one of them at least. Last week, we’ve updated Elasticsearch to the latest 5.x version.  Along with

Elasticsearch Training, San Francisco & New York, October

If you are using Elasticsearch and are looking for Elasticsearch training to quickly improve your Elastic Stack skills, we've running several Elasticsearch classes this October in San Francisco and New

Elasticsearch / Elastic Stack Training – NYC June 13-16

Next month, June 13-16, 2016, we will be running three Elastic Stack (aka ELK Stack) classes in New York City: June 13 & 14: Elasticsearch for Developers Training Workshop June 15: Elasticsearch

Monitoring rsyslog with Kibana and SPM

A while ago we published this post where we explained how you can get stats about rsyslog, such as the number of messages enqueued, the number of output errors and

Sending AWS CloudWatch/VPC Logs to Logsene

Use-case: you're using AWS VPC and want visibility over the connection to your VPC. Which IPs are allowed or denied connections to certain ports, how much traffic goes through each

1-Click ELK Stack: Hosted Kibana 4

We just pushed a new release of Logsene to production, including 1-Click Access to Kibana 4! Did you know that Logsene provides a complete ELK Stack? Logsene's indexing and search

Monitoring Kibana 4’s Node.js App

The release of Kibana 4.x has had an impact on monitoring and other related activities.  In this post we're going to get specific and show you how to add Node.js monitoring to