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

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How to use Kibana 4 with Logsene Log Management

Did you know that Logsene provides a complete ELK Stack; i.e., a complete log management, analytics, exploration, and visualization solution? Logsene currently supports Kibana 3 with complete Kibana 4 support

Monitoring rsyslog’s Performance with impstats and Elasticsearch

If you're using rsyslog for processing lots of logs (and, as we've shown before, rsyslog is good at processing lots of logs), you're probably interested in monitoring it. To do

Using Elasticsearch Mapping Types to Handle Different JSON Logs

By default, Elasticsearch does a good job of figuring the type of data in each field of your logs. But if you like your logs structured like we do, you

Parsing and Centralizing Elasticsearch Logs with Logstash

NOTE: this configuration was tested with Logstash 2.2 on logs generated by Elasticsearch 2.2 No, it's not an endless loop waiting to happen, the plan here is to use Logstash

Encrypting Logs on Their Way to Elasticsearch Part 2: TLS Syslog

In part 1 of the "encrypted logs" series we discussed sending logs to Elasticsearch over HTTPS. This second part is about TLS syslog. If you wonder what this has to

Encrypting Logs on Their Way to Elasticsearch

Let's assume you want to send your logs to Elasticsearch, so you can search or analyze them in realtime. If your Elasticsearch cluster is in a remote location (EC2?) or

Video Presentation: On Centralizing Logs

You might have seen our PDF presentation from Monitorama that was published last week. Now, the video is available as well. You will be able to see more about tuning

Presentation: On Centralizing Logs

… with Syslog, LogStash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and friends, one might add.  If you liked Recipe: rsyslog + Elasticsearch + Kibana, you’ll like this presentation.  We’ve also published the actual 25-minute video

On Centralizing Logs at Monitorama EU

I'm really excited to be attending Monitorama EU this week! I'll give a talk about centralizing logs on Friday at 15:15 . You can see the full schedule here. Please

Recipe: rsyslog + Elasticsearch + Kibana

In this post you'll see how you can take your logs with rsyslog and ship them directly to Elasticsearch (running on your own servers, or the one behind Logsene Elasticsearch API)  in