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 […]
Category: Logging
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: […]
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 to secure Elasticsearch and Kibana for free using the Community […]
Docker Log Management & Enrichment
Over the last several months we’ve made all kinds of improvements to Sematext Docker Agent (SDA). If you’re not familiar with SDA yet, here it is in a nutshell Sematext Docker Agent is a modern, open-source, Docker-native monitoring and log […]
Log Event Context
Being able to see the context of a specific log message is one of those highly sought out features in Kibana that still seems to be missing (though we can see the light at the end of that long tunnel […]
S3 Archiving & Longer Retention for Logs
Need to have your recent logs searchable for your DevOps team(s) to troubleshoot issues, but also need to archive old logs for compliance reasons? Many organizations need that and Sematext Cloud makes that simple. You can certainly simply pick […]
iOS SDK for Log Shipping & Analytics
Want to ship logs and other events from your iOS apps? We’ve open-sourced the iOS SDK for shipping logs from iOS apps to Sematext Cloud. This library not only lets you send your iOS app logs for troubleshooting purposes, […]
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