Last updated on Dec 10, 2017 Pretty much everyone’s heard about syslog: with its roots in the 80s, it’s still used for a lot of the logging done today. Mostly because of its long history, syslog is quite a vague […]
Log Management for IBM Bluemix and Cloud Foundry
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, and it often takes a long time […]
Elasticsearch security: Authentication, Encryption, Backup
Last updated on Jan 15, 2018 In this post, we are going to show you how to secure Elasticsearch by sharing a few simple and free prevention methods.
Kubernetes Containers: Logging and Monitoring support
In this post we will: Introduce Kubernetes concepts and motivation for Kubernetes-aware monitoring and logging tooling Show how to deploy the Sematext Docker Agent to each Kubernetes node with DaemonSet Point out key Kubernetes metrics and log elements to help […]
Logging Libraries vs Log Shippers
Last updated on Dec 14, 2017 In the context of centralizing logs (say, to Logsene or your own Elasticsearch), we often get the question of whether one should log directly from the application (e.g. via an Elasticsearch or syslog appender) or use […]
Exploring Windows Kernel with Fibratus and Logsene
This is a guest post by Nedim Šabić, developer of Fibratus, a tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel. Unlike Linux / UNIX environments which provide a plethora of open source and native tools to instrument the user / kernel […]
Black Friday log management (with the Elastic Stack) checklist
For this Black Friday, Sematext wishes you: more products sold more traffic and exposure more logs 🙂 Now seriously, applications tend to generate a lot more logs on Black Friday, and they also tend to break down more – making […]
AWS Elasticsearch Service vs. Elasticsearch on EC2
Last updated: 26 January, 2018 Many of our clients use AWS EC2. In the context of Elasticsearch consulting or support, one question we often get is: should we use AWS Elasticsearch Service instead of deploying Elasticsearch ourselves? The question is valid whether “self […]
Elasticsearch for logs and metrics: A deep dive – Velocity 2016, O’REILLY…
We are known worldwide for our Elasticsearch, ELK stack and Solr consulting services, and we are always happy to help others improve their skills in these technologies, not only through Solr & Elastic Stack trainings, but also by sharing our […]