Kubernetes is a really hot topic at the moment. All major cloud providers adopted it as a solution for deploying cloud native apps. Just a few weeks ago, AWS at reInvent introduced EKS (Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes) which […]
Logagent Meets Apache Kafka
This is a guest post from Filippo Balicchia. Filippo contributed Logagent plugins for Apache Kafka the details of which he is sharing in this post. Filippo is a software engineer and a passionate coder interested in distributed and cloud technologies, […]
Shipping data to AWS Elasticsearch with Logagent
Elasticsearch is already quite popular and its popularity just keeps growing. Looking at Google Trends chart for the last 5 years shows this nicely: There are a number of reasons why Elasticsearch is popular: it is very easy to get […]
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 Java 9 fresh out of the oven and Elasticsearch 6 […]
How to Detect Malicious Traffic in Your Server Logs: Sematext + Access…
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 are up to? We all know Googlebot and consider it […]
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 experience with Elasticsearch though, if you’re aware of its rich […]
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 teams have traditionally used two separate sets of tools – […]
X-Pack Alternatives
Last updated on Jan 15, 2018 People love Splunk. But not its price. So people are always on a lookout for a good Splunk alternative. Many of those people migrated from Splunk to ELK Stack or Hosted ELK Stack solutions […]
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. We really love it. However, there is one major drawback: […]