Logging

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]