The rather broad definition of personal data in the GDPR requires paying special attention to log data. GDPR and personal data in web server logs is a popular topic in many GDPR fora. For example, IP addresses or cookies might […]
IoT: Air Pollution Tracking with Node.js, Elastic Stack, and MQTT
What can you do with a couple of IoT devices, Node.js, Elasticsearch, and MQTT? You can put together your own Internet of Things setup for measuring air pollution, like I have. In this blog post, I’ll share all the details […]
Rsyslog eBook: Centralized Logging with Rsyslog
Centralizing logs to Elasticsearch? Of course, the first log shipper that comes to mind is Logstash. When you get into it, you realize centralizing logs often implies a bunch of things, and Logstash isn’t the only log shipper that fits […]
Free webinar: Join experts from Sematext and IBM Cloud for “Monitoring and…
Enterprises without DevOps teams and culture typically experience long applications deployment cycles. Once developers make a new release the operations team needs to deploy it to one of the existing or new servers. This often takes a long time (up […]
Top 10 Docker Logging Gotchas
Docker changed not only how applications are deployed, it also changed the workflow for log management. Instead of writing logs to files, containers write logs to the console (stdout/stderr) and Docker Logging Drivers forward logs to their destination. A check […]
Embracing Kubernetes Successfully
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 […]