What can you do with a couple of IoT devices, Node.js, Elasticsearch, and MQTT? You can put together your own Internet of Things setup for measuring air pollution, like I have. In this blog post, I’ll share all the details […]
Free webinar: Join experts from Sematext and IBM Cloud for “Monitoring and…
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. This often takes a long time (up […]
Embracing Kubernetes Successfully
Kubernetes is a really hot topic at the moment. All major cloud providers adopted it as a solution for deploying cloud native apps. Just a few weeks ago, AWS at reInvent introduced EKS (Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes) which […]
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 – […]
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 […]