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 […]
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 […]
5 Steps to MeteorJS Monitoring
Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for developing modern web and mobile applications. It includes developer tools, websockets, MongoDB integration, and a package manager. Atmosphere.js is the Meteor package manager. Unfortunately, it doesn’t list many Meteor monitoring solutions. Luckily, thanks […]
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 […]
Docker Swarm Lessons from Swarm3K
This is a guest post by Prof. Chanwit Kaewkasi, Docker Captain who organized Swarm3K – the largest Docker Swarm cluster to date. Swarm3K Review Swarm3K was the second collaborative project trying to form a very large Docker cluster with the […]
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 […]
Akka Monitoring with Kamon and SPM
SPM provides Akka monitoring via Kamon and has been doing that for quite a while now. With SPM and Kamon you get out of the box metrics about Akka Actors, Dispatchers and Routers, about the JVMs your Akka app runs in, […]
Taming SwarmZilla: 150k Containers in 3K+ Docker Swarm Nodes
SwarmZilla/swarm3k by Docker Captain Chanwit Kaewkasi is a unique community project/event aimed at launching a Docker Swarm cluster with 3000+ community-sponsored nodes. The previous project – Swarm2k – successfully demonstrated a 2000+ node Swarm cluster with only 3 Swarm managers […]