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, […]
Android SDK for Log Shipping & Analytics
A few months back we’ve silently built and open-sourced an Android SDK for shipping logs from mobile apps to Sematext Cloud. This library not only lets you send your Android app logs for troubleshooting purposes, but it also lets you […]
Docker Security: Using Docker Secrets with Swarm
This post shows how to use Docker Secrets in Docker Swarm mode. For our example we’ll show how to use Docker Secrets to encrypt and safely store tokens used by Sematext Docker Agent for shipping Docker metrics and logs. Before […]
Kafka Connect Elasticsearch: Consuming and Indexing with Kafka Connect
Last updated on Jan 8, 2018 In the world of DevOps, metric collection, log centralization and analysis Apache Kafka is the most commonly used middleware. More specifically, it is used as a fast, persistent queue between data sources like log […]
Network Security: Analyze & Search Bro / Zeek IDS Logs with Elasticsearch
Intrusion detection systems generate highly valuable logs with network usage details and alerts. They collect vast amounts of data and typically store them in structures with a large number of fields. To make sense of so much data and to […]
How to ship Kibana Server Logs to Elasticsearch
Last updated on Dec 14, 2017 When dealing with log centralization in your organization you have to start with something. Often times people start by collecting logs for the most crucial pieces of software, and frequently one chooses to ship […]
What is Syslog: Daemons, Message Formats and Protocols
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.