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Product updates

Full list of product updates

2024

December 18, 2024

Monitoring of Windows Services

The latest update to Sematext Infrastructure Monitoring gives you the ability to monitor and alert on the status and performance of Windows Services across your...

October 31, 2024

Migration to OpenSearch and Kibana removal

At the end of November, we’ll migrate the Sematext Logs backend from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch. This update will enhance our platform’s efficiency and give us...

October 8, 2024

Transition from Puppeteer to Playwright

We want to share an important update regarding Sematext Synthetics. As you know, our Browser Monitors help you track User Journeys across multiple pages on your website,...

October 7, 2024

New Windows logs integration

We’ve just added Windows Logs integration in Sematext Cloud alongside our other 100+ integrations. This integration allows you to effortlessly collect, monitor, analyze, and alert on Windows Logs. It...

September 9, 2024

Important update to your Sematext Logs & Monitoring Apps plan

Starting October 1, 2024, Basic Apps will get higher log volume, alerting, overage protection, and longer data retention and will no longer be free. You’ll...

September 3, 2024

New data table component

Introducing the Data Table Component, a new way to visualize your metrics and logs. This new option provides a more flexible and detailed view compared...

August 9, 2024

Live vs offline hosts

The addition of offline hosts is now available in Sematext Cloud. This new feature, available in both the Infrastructure and Fleet, shows you which hosts are sending data...

August 5, 2024

Faster troubleshooting with new alert screens

Sematext Alerts has been updated to improve your troubleshooting experience. Our alert screens have undergone a complete redesign to improve usability. This includes updates to alert...

July 9, 2024

15 New alerts for Windows services

Following the first public beta release of Sematext Agent for Windows, we are further strengthening our Windows Monitoring by adding support for 15 pre-configured alert rules to monitor...

June 30, 2024

Sematext Agent 3.6.0 with custom log shipping!

The new Sematext Agent version 3.6.0 introduces custom log shipping. This feature provides you with greater flexibility and control over your logs, augmenting Sematext Discovery when log files...

June 7, 2024

Introducing the Features in This Screen flyout

We’re excited to introduce a new feature to help you get the most out of Sematext Cloud: The Features in This Screen flyout. This handy addition...

May 28, 2024

Sematext Agent for Windows beta release

The first public beta release of our Sematext Agent for Windows is now available. It allows you to collect metrics about your Windows hosts, including, CPU, memory,...

May 20, 2024

New Infrastructure & Kubernetes alerts

Monitoring your infrastructure just became a little easier. Now, when you create a new Infra App you will get 30+ default alert rules out of the...

April 3, 2024

Introducing troubleshoot for endpoint issues

With this new feature, you will be able to find backend issues related to or even causing your synthetic monitor failures. While Synthetics monitors effectively...

April 3, 2024

Pausing synthetic monitors

We're thrilled to introduce a new feature in Sematext Synthetics: Scheduled Monitor Pauses! This is useful when you know monitors will start failing during a...

March 20, 2024

Password protection for synthetics status pages

Status pages let you share the status and response time of your services with internal teams, and your customers. They are also useful for sharing...

2023

December 19, 2023

Introducing bulk add for HTTP monitors

Ever needed to add monitoring for multiple sites or APIs at once? If yes, this is for you! We're thrilled to announce you can now...

December 11, 2023

Unified monitoring and log shipping with Companion Apps

We are introducing Companion Apps to help you quickly get both metrics and logs from your Infrastructure. With Companion Apps, you can now create a Logs App...

December 8, 2023

Kubernetes workload logs and events now available

Following our recent release of Kubernetes Monitoring integration and the new Kubernetes Workloads, we just made it easier for you to get logs and events for your Workloads,...

December 4, 2023

New Fleet and Discovery

The new and unified Fleet and Discovery replaces the previously separate Fleet and Discovery. Use it to introspect any instance of Sematext Agent running in your infrastructure and view...

November 7, 2023

New Kubernetes controller manager reports

Kubernetes Controller Manager reports (kube-controller) is now available, a new powerful addition to your Kubernetes Monitoring toolbox. The kube-controller is one of the main control...

November 1, 2023

Introducing Kubernetes workloads

We are happy to introduce Kubernetes Workloads, a new addition to our recently announced Kubernetes Monitoring integration that will make managing your Kubernetes deployments easier and increase...

November 1, 2023

Avoid false positive alerts with consecutive runs

Sematext Synthetics now has the consecutive runs feature for both Browser and HTTP monitors. This new functionality allows you to have Sematext automatically rerun the monitor immediately after a...

October 25, 2023

New MySQL logs integration

We’ve just added MySQL Logs integration in Sematext Cloud alongside our other 100+ integrations. This integration allows you to effortlessly collect, monitor, analyze, and alert on MySQL Logs. It...

October 24, 2023

Reduce log monitoring cost with plan recommendations

We understand that every organization has unique needs when it comes to log management. That's why we offer a range of plans with multiple retention...

October 23, 2023

Sematext Agent release 3.2.0 is out

The Sematext Agent release 3.2.0 is now available. Below, you can find the most important highlights of this release. New Features Added support for collecting Kubernetes...

October 3, 2023

New Varnish Cache monitoring integration

Following our recent announcement for the Varnish Cache Logs integration, we are now taking it a step further by introducing Varnish Cache Monitoring integration. Varnish Cache Monitoring integration provides...

October 1, 2023

The Kubernetes overview is here

Following the addition of a bunch of new Kubernetes monitoring reports regarding our Kubernetes Monitoring integration, we are happy to introduce our newly revamped Kubernetes Overview. It features...

September 11, 2023

NTLM authentication support for synthetics monitors

In the realm of Windows network security, NTLM authentication stands as a guardian for the integrity and confidentiality of user interactions. Sematext Synthetics introduces support...

September 8, 2023

Extract metrics from synthetics HTTP monitors

By extracting numerical values from endpoints, you can effortlessly monitor and analyze data, identify emerging trends, assess performance metrics, and set up alerts. This approach enables...

September 4, 2023

New Varnish Cache logs integration

We are thrilled to announce that we’ve just added Varnish Cache Logs integration in Sematext Cloud alongside our other 100+ integrations. This integration allows you to effortlessly collect...

August 24, 2023

Sematext Agent release 3.1.0 is out

The Sematext Agent release 3.1.0 is now available. Below, you can find the most important highlights of this release. New Features Varnish Cache monitoring support:...

August 15, 2023

Terminal view for logs is now available

When troubleshooting issues with your application by interrogating its logs, you may prefer to minimize all the visual noise of a rich graphical UI and...

August 2, 2023

Introducing Kubernetes monitoring – new reports for all K8S components!

We are excited to announce the latest release of Sematext Kubernetes Monitoring. This much improved Kubernetes monitoring integration brings a comprehensive suite of dashboards for some...

June 26, 2023

OpenSearch logs integration is now available

We are happy to announce that Sematext now supports OpenSearch Logs integration, enabling you to collect, analyze, and visualize your OpenSearch Logs effortlessly. Check out...

May 26, 2023

Sematext adds Vercel synthetics integration

Vercel enables you to host Jamstack websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and require no supervision, with no configuration. Sematext enables you...

May 15, 2023

Sematext adds Couchbase monitoring integration

We've got some exciting news - we've just added Couchbase Monitoring Integration! This means you can now monitor health and performance of your Couchbase clusters directly...

March 13, 2023

Effortlessly remove recipients from alerts

Before the new Recipients page was introduced in Sematext Cloud, you weren’t able to tell which notification hooks were being used and by which alert...

March 13, 2023

OpenSearch monitoring integration now available

We are excited to announce that Sematext now supports OpenSearch Monitoring Integration! This means that Sematext users can now easily monitor their OpenSearch clusters among...

February 15, 2023

Authentication support for synthetics HTTP monitors

Before this feature was introduced in Sematext Cloud, you had to create Browser Monitors and write user journey scripts to monitor an endpoint that requires...

December 2, 2022

Saving response body is now optional

When you create an HTTP Monitor with Sematext Synthetics, the response body is saved after each monitor run. This allows you to debug your endpoint...

2022

December 2, 2022

Faster troubleshooting with the new events table

The Events table now has a fresh new look with a lot of new features and efficient correlation between Sematext Apps, to enable easy and...

November 11, 2022

Correlating metrics & logs is now easier than ever

Sematext now offers quick navigation from your logs to metrics with a simple click. Why correlate logs and metrics? Logs give you details about events...

November 1, 2022

Certificate authority checks are now available

Each certificate consists of a certificate file and a key file that are both signed by a Certificate Authority (CA). The main goal of a...

October 17, 2022

New logs table column toggling

Sematext now offers the ability to quickly toggle on and off various columns based on fields you see in the Logs table. To use this...

September 29, 2022

The new and revamped chart builder is here!

Chart Builder lets you visualize data sent to Sematext. You can build custom charts for metrics and logs and save them in any Report or...

September 19, 2022

New highlighting features added to enable fast troubleshooting

Sematext now offers highlighting for Logs. By highlighting significant results you can save time while troubleshooting what is going on in your system. The table...

September 16, 2022

Create your charts easier than ever with Quick Chart!

You can now create different kinds of charts directly from individual log events, as shown below. The Quick Chart feature is available in every App...

August 25, 2022

New parameters added to custom Webhooks

Most people send their alert notifications to Slack, PagerDuty, Email, or one of the other out-of-the-box Notification Hooks. But you can also configure custom Webhooks to send alert notifications...

August 8, 2022

Control table rows density in account settings

You can now choose between 3 density options for your table rows. By selecting the density level you can control how many rows to fit...

July 15, 2022

Securely save credentials in User Journey Scripts

Synthetics can now securely store sensitive data like credentials and use them in your User Journey Scripts. When you are adding or editing a User Journey...

June 27, 2022

AlertOps integration is available

AlertOps has been added to the available alert notifications hooks – 20 of them in total. This new notification hook lets you connect Sematext Cloud notifications with...

June 27, 2022

Get your priorities straight with Sematext Alerts!

Sematext Alerts now lets you set the priority for your alert rules. With this new functionality, you will be able to differentiate between info, warn,...

May 13, 2022

Multiple device types for synthetic Browser Monitors

Thus far, you could use our Synthetics Browser monitors to see how your website would look and perform from a Desktop user’s point of view. We are...

March 16, 2022

ServiceNow notifications are here!

ServiceNow has been added to the list of available alert notifications hooks. The new notification hook enables you to connect your ServiceNow Scripted REST API with...

March 2, 2022

Github & Sematext sync for User Journey Scripts

Up until now you could add User Journey Scripts to Sematext directly, via the Sematext Synthetics UI. But we are happy to report that you can now...

February 2, 2022

Converting to a team account

Ever created the perfect monitoring setup on Sematext Cloud with a trial account? Was the setup so good you wanted to use it for work...

2021

December 15, 2021

New Synthetics condition operators

We’ve added three new options for matching conditions in HTTP responses when you create a new Synthetic monitor: Not equal (!=) Starts with Does not contain...

October 14, 2021

Introducing Elasticsearch logs integration

We finally have a worthy partner for the long-standing (but recently improved!) Elasticsearch Monitoring Integration. If you see a spike in query latency or a node count...

October 4, 2021

Google Chat notifications now available!

We’ve just added Google Chat to our growing list of available notification channels! Google Chat is seamlessly integrated with Google Workspace. If you are a Google...

September 30, 2021

Introducing JVM logs integration

If you run applications on top of the JVM you know how critical garbage collection is for application performance. Some of the information about JVM...

September 15, 2021

Improvements of the Elasticsearch monitoring integration

Our Elasticsearch monitoring integration just got a whole lot better! You get new metrics, better dashboards and more default alerts out of the box. Stemmed from many...

August 24, 2021

Announcing Logs Pipelines!

We are thrilled to announce Logs Pipelines, an exciting new functionality you can now use in Sematext Cloud! Raw log events are not always perfectly structured....

July 29, 2021

New hotness – gradient charts styling

If you’ve missed our dark theme announcement, check it out. It’s “just” a visual thing, but we all like to look at prettier things given the...

July 22, 2021

New Nginx logs dashboards

This is a brand-new integration for NGINX logs. Besides monitoring NGINX or NGINX Plus web server performance metrics you can now ship NGINX logs to...

July 21, 2021

New Apache logs dashboards

This is a brand new integration for Apache logs. Besides monitoring Apache web server performance metrics you can now ship Apache logs to Sematext and enjoy...

July 20, 2021

Alert rule runbooks and descriptions

Regardless of which notification hook(s) you are using for your alerts in Sematext, the notification always contains a link to a view in Sematext that we...

June 16, 2021

New agents for Nginx, Apache and MongoDB

If you are using Sematext for monitoring Nginx, Apache, or MongoDB, you’ll be pleased to hear we’ve just made some improvements to the Nginx, Apache,...

June 2, 2021

Dark theme is here!

We are excited to announce you can now choose between light and the new dark theme! The dark theme was designed to reduce strain on...

March 25, 2021

Journald log discovery is here!

We’ve just incorporated the Journald into our arsenal of collectible log sources. Journald Discovery brings all your systemd service logs under one roof where you can granularly...

March 2, 2021

Kubernetes log discovery is here!

With Kubernetes Logs Discovery, setting up cluster-wide logs aggregation and parsing becomes a no-brainer! Kubernetes Logs Discovery surfaces all containerized services and classifies them into...

February 16, 2021

Monitor websites and APIs behind your firewall!

How do you use Sematext to monitor the web sites in your intranet? How do you monitor APIs behind your firewall? We’re proud to announce...

February 15, 2021

Brand new user preferences!

From today you can select your personal preferences on the account level. These settings include customizing chart presets for charts and time formats across your...

February 4, 2021

Create Status Page with Sematext Synthetics

With Synthetics you can now create public status pages where your users can check the status of your service. When there are issues with your...

February 2, 2021

Podman container monitoring

In light of our previous product updates where we’ve introduced containerd and crio, we are now excited to announce the Podman container engine monitoring support. Podman is...

January 12, 2021

Sematext Infra integration is out of the beta!

The Sematext Infra App integration and its functionality is now available to all Sematext Cloud users! Infra Apps act as a storage for metrics, processes...

January 11, 2021

CRI-O support

After containerd joined the family of monitoring integrations, we're following the trend and expanding our container monitoring capabilities with cri-o container runtime support. cri-o aims to deliver a native...

January 8, 2021

New container tags for Node.js monitoring!

Node.js is more than twice as commonly seen in containerized environments than in non-containerized environments. We listened to our customers and decided to enhance the...

January 5, 2021

Announcing Logs Discovery

We're thrilled to announce the availability of the Logs Discovery and Automatic Logs Shipping features. When you install the latest version of Sematext Agent it will provide you with information about...

2020

December 21, 2020

More domains & filtering by domain in Experience

The Standard plan for Experience includes sending data from multiple domains. For example, if you have a development, staging, and production environment you can send...

December 15, 2020

New AWS ECS on AWS Fargate & EC2 logs integration

With our new ECS Logs integration, you get a complete overview of all logs your ECS Cluster is generating. This includes both AWS Fargate and AWS...

December 11, 2020

RabbitMQ monitoring and logs integrations

With our new RabbitMQ integrations, you have a complete view of what RabbitMQ is doing. Through RabbitMQ Monitoring, you can check metrics such as the number...

December 3, 2020

New in Experience – Live View

Sematext Experience now lets you observe your website traffic in real time! Don't know about you, but some of us find it tremendously satisfying to watch...

November 25, 2020

PostgreSQL logs integration

We recently announced our PostgreSQL Monitoring integration and now we have a PostgreSQL Logs integration to complement it. Logagent can be easily set up to parse the main log file and...

November 20, 2020

Save Time with Saved Views

Filtering and grouping data is a central part of the Sematext Cloud user interface. With Saved Views you can now save your filters and groups for faster...

November 16, 2020

Run synthetic monitors from your CI/CD pipeline

Sematext Synthetics lets you proactively test your APIs, websites, and user journeys. In addition to scheduled monitor runs, now you can run the monitors as...

November 16, 2020

Heatbars – new time series visualization

We are excited to introduce Heatbars, sometimes referred to as swim lanes in other data visualization tools. It's a new way to represent data in time...

November 9, 2020

Introducing Browser Memory Usage

With Sematext Experience and the open-sourced Browser SDK you can now monitor the browser memory usage of your frontend applications as experienced by your users. This new functionality exposes...

November 6, 2020

New Split Screen to correlate and pivot between metrics, logs, and much more…

We’ve listened to your feedback and added a brand new, product-wide correlation and data-pivoting feature called Split Screen. Want to correlate metrics and logs? Done!...

November 5, 2020

iOS Mobile Logs SDK is now iOS 14 compatible

The Sematext iOS Mobile Logs SDK is now compatible with iOS 14. It works with older versions of iOS as well, of course. To ensure your mobile...

November 2, 2020

Solr logs integration

We had a Solr Monitoring Integration for a very long time, and now we're proud to announce our Solr Logs Integration to complement it! It makes use of Logagent's out-of-the-box parsing of...

October 6, 2020

Jenkins monitoring integration

The brand new Jenkins monitoring integration is here! You can now use the Sematext Jenkins plugin which is now open-source and publicly available on Github under the Apache 2.0 license! Enabling...

October 5, 2020

Sematext Terraform provider

Do you use Terraform?  If so, you’ll be happy to learn we just released our new Terraform Provider for Sematext Cloud and made our entry into the...

September 29, 2020

Introducing the Sematext Browser SDK

We are pleased to announce that our Browser SDK, the library powering our Sematext Experience data collection is now open-source and publicly available on Github under the Apache 2.0 license!...

September 18, 2020

Containerd meets Sematext

We are thrilled to announce the availability of the containerd monitoring in Sematext Cloud. Containerd is a minimalist container runtime focused on simplicity and portability. With Sematext Agent you...

September 14, 2020

6 new notification hooks for alerts!

You now have even more alert notification options to choose from! In addition to all the notification hooks you had with Sematext until now, we decided to...

September 4, 2020

Improved SSL certificate monitoring with alerting

We have improved the SSL/TLS Certificate monitoring capabilities of Sematext Synthetics. Now you can: Monitor the complete certificate chain of your API or website Get notified...

August 28, 2020

New: PostgreSQL monitoring integration

We had MySQL monitoring for many years, and we're proud to release our PostgreSQL monitoring integration as well. Agent setup (EU) is a simple matter of copy-pasting instructions, as the PostgreSQL...

August 26, 2020

Introducing IP address-based geocoding for logs

IP address-based geocoding for logs is now available in Sematext Cloud! You can now get enriched logs in Sematext Cloud with geographical data. By including...

August 24, 2020

Dive into Linux system logs in 3 easy steps

With our new Linux Journald Integration, you can look deep into your Linux systems easier than ever: Install Logagent Run logagent-setup Open your Sematext Logs app and...

August 6, 2020

Numeric dashboard component

We're happy to announce a new dashboard component called Numeric. The component is built to show big, single number panels. It supports filtering and grouping as all other dashboard components. When you use group...

August 4, 2020

Log Archiving to AWS S3-compatible solutions

Log archiving to AWS S3, which has been available in Sematext since May 2017, has now been extended to support all S3-compatible services and solutions....

July 29, 2020

Monitor Core Web Vitals in Synthetics and Experience

To improve your website or webapp performance you first need to know which metrics are essential. Web Vitals is an initiative by Google to provide unified guidance...

July 23, 2020

New in Experience – element timing

Please note that to get this data for your website or webapp you will need to update the JavaScript snippet. Go to App Settings >...

July 14, 2020

Logs in chart builder

We're excited to introduce logs in Chart Builder and hope you'll enjoy using it as much as we've enjoyed developing it! This gives you new possibilities to...

July 3, 2020

Introducing mobile app log aAnalysis for Android and iOS

With the new mobile application logs integration, you get out of the box insights into what your mobile apps are doing. By using the open-source iOS or...

July 1, 2020

Discovery is here: Automatically monitor discovered services!

Have you ever wished you could monitor your software stacks with zero configuration changes and no service disruptions? With Discovery, we automate the discovery and monitoring of your services regardless of...

June 23, 2020

New Vercel Integration with error tracking for serverless functions and Jamstack websites!

With our new Vercel Logs Integration you get insight into your whole Vercel account. View logs from all your projects, serverless functions, static and Jamstack websites, including...

June 10, 2020

Introducing Sematext Synthetics, an API & website monitoring solution

We are happy to announce the release of Sematext Synthetics. With Synthetics, you can monitor availability (uptime) of APIs and websites. You can also monitor your...

June 1, 2020

Flexible, tag-aware Heartbeat alerts

When we first released Heartbeat Alerts years ago, we made it possible to get alerted when a monitored service running on a host stopped sending metrics to...

May 18, 2020

Brand new GitHub webhook eents integration with pre-built reports!

Store all data about triggered GitHub Events in one place. When an event is triggered, GitHub sends an HTTP POST payload to Sematext. Gain insight into the...

May 8, 2020

New in Experience – long tasks

Please note, to get this data for your website you will need to update the JavaScript snippet. Go to App Settings -> Installation to copy...

May 5, 2020

Say hello to monitoring ARM64 with Sematext!

With the growth in popularity of ARM-based processors, we’ve added support for all ARM v8 architectures to our Sematext Agent and Logagent. This includes all...

May 4, 2020

New and improved alerts for Experience

When we first released Experience, we also made it possible to create alerts for different Apdex scores. That worked well enough but now we have improved...

April 28, 2020

Brand new Kubernetes audit logs integration with pre-built reports!

Kubernetes audit logs are detailed descriptions of each call made to the Kubernetes API Server. They provide a chronological sequence of activities that lead to...

April 22, 2020

Introducing a new type of chart – the Heatmap!

The Heatmap is a two-dimensional representation of data, where values are represented using color saturation. The vertical axis shows weekdays, while the horizontal axis represents the...

April 1, 2020

Introducing a brand new Alerts Overview with improved UI!

Yes, it's April 1st. No, we are not joking! We've been working hard to make our Alerts even more awesome! This is what we've come...

March 24, 2020

Updated Support for Kubernetes Logs

We have updated our Kubernetes logs integrations! You can now ship a wide variety of Kubernetes logs to Sematext by configuring our Logagent. We now also...

March 23, 2020

We have a new integration for Kubernetes Audit Logs!

We have a new Kubernetes Audit logs integration! You can now ship Kubernetes Audit logs directly to Sematext, without any overhead, by configuring either a...

March 10, 2020

We have a new logs integration for Journald!

We have a new Journald logs integration! You can now ship Journald logs directly to Sematext, without any overhead, by configuring a single URL. You...

March 10, 2020

Inventory addition: container images report

Do you know which images your containers are based on? Do you know how many different versions of each image you have in production? Does...

February 26, 2020

Introducing the new Process overview infrastructure report with 4 brand new charts!

We’ve been hard at work to bring you a new Process Overview report to our Infrastructure Process Monitoring. First update your instance of Sematext Agent, or run the...

February 13, 2020

Latest performance tweaks for the Sematext Agent cut the CPU & Memory usage almost in half!

The latest release of the Sematext Agent cuts down the CPU and memory footprint by almost a half! If you haven’t updated your Sematext Agent...

February 10, 2020

Introducing Metrics Chart Builder

We’re excited to give you the new Chart Builder and hope you’ll enjoy using it as much as we’ve enjoyed developing it! Besides its complete visual overhaul,...

February 7, 2020

Resources insights added to Experience

Resources pages will give you detailed information about each resource that was fetched while loading your website. This includes images, fonts, stylesheets, and other media....

February 7, 2020

Group performance data in Experience

The new Group By selector allows you to slice the data and find performance differences between browsers, countries, device types, etc. Click on the Group...

February 7, 2020

Experience: Load Time breakdown

We now show a more detailed load time breakdown whenever we have the data available. Hard page loads, same-origin HTTP requests and resources have detailed...

2019

November 11, 2019

Sematext Experience anomaly detection and alerting

Monitoring the user experience for your website is not a one-time task. While you iterate versions of your website, and constantly deploy new changes, you...

November 8, 2019

Data sampling in Sematext Experience

If you have a high-traffic website or web app, we’ve got good news for you! With high-traffic websites or web apps, you often don’t need...

November 7, 2019

Reactive grid layouts for dashboards

We love dashboards! Our goal is to help you troubleshoot faster and glean valuable insights from charts, counters, log tables, and more on a single...

October 20, 2019

Compute, network, and storage reports for infrastructure monitoring

Infrastructure monitoring gives you a complete overview of the storage, network, and compute metrics of your resources. You can find network, storage and compute reports...

October 20, 2019

Track user satisfaction trends with Sematext Experience

The Apdex score is a great metric for tracking user satisfaction for your website. In the initial release of Sematext Experience, our real user monitoring solution, we displayed...

September 20, 2019

Autodiscovery for Kubernetes and Docker enterprise

Do you run Elasticsearch, Solr, Zookeeper, Apache Kafka, or any other App in Kubernetes, Docker Enterprise or Swarm? Then you know that it could be...

August 27, 2019

Real user monitoring with Sematext Experience

You can now use Sematext Cloud for user experience monitoring as well. New Experience Apps collect data directly from your website or webapp visitors and give you...

August 7, 2019

Visualize any metric with new custom charts

Monitoring integrations come with a predefined set of charts and dashboards. Great if you want to get started quickly and don't really know which metrics...

July 8, 2019

Introducing core Infrastructure monitoring

Core infrastructure monitoring with Sematext just got better. How? The new agent collects container metrics and events just like the old agent, but it also collects Kubernetes...

July 5, 2019

Introducing Sematext operator for Kubernetes monitoring

If installing the Sematext Agent on Kubernetes manually felt too old fashioned and if Sematext Agent Helm Chart was not good enough, you’ll be pleased...

June 20, 2019

Inventory monitoring

Do you know how many different Linux distros you are running in production? Do you know which ones you are running and their versions? How...

June 11, 2019

Real-time process monitoring

You can now use Sematext for real-time process monitoring. With process monitoring you gain real-time visibility into which processes use the most CPU or memory,...

May 27, 2019

Alert scheduling

You can now control during which times of the day and which days of the week alert rules are active or inactive. By default an...

2018

December 5, 2018

Custom reports for Monitoring & logs apps

Sematext Cloud comes with predefined dashboards for every Monitoring App. A huge time saver, because you don’t need to spend hours creating your monitoring or logging...

October 23, 2018

New Sematext monitoring agent released

You asked, we listened. The new Sematext Monitoring Agent includes many features that will make your infrastructure and application monitoring a whole lot easier. The...

October 23, 2018

ClickHouse monitoring released

Yandex ClickHouse is an open source column-oriented database management system capable of real-time generation of analytical data reports using SQL queries. ClickHouse allows you to not...

October 2, 2018

Upgrade to Elasticsearch and Kibana 6.4

We’re excited to announce that Sematext Logs has upgraded to Elasticsearch 6.4 and along with it to the shiny, new Kibana 6.4! All your visualizations...

August 13, 2018

New container view in infrastructure monitoring

The new Containers view provides you with enhanced visibility into all your containers and their hosts, drawing your attention to the ones that need it...

July 31, 2018

Sematext Logs elasticsearch API extra security

Sematext Logs Elasticsearch API Extra Security | July 2018 The Sematext API for log ingestion log search has always been compatible with the Elasticsearch API. On...

July 22, 2018

Better servers view

Servers view is giving overview over host servers used by your apps. User can use GroupBy and FilterBy filters to decide which servers or group...

June 12, 2018

Automatic metrics correlation

If you work with monitoring or monitoring tools much, you’ve probably seen the phrase “correlating” here and there. Correlation is what can help you find...

March 22, 2018

Added Logtrail to Kibana

Dealing with log files or extracting data from various data sources is a daily task in the IT administration. Adding logtrail to Kibana gives users...

2017

November 12, 2017

Tighter metrics & logs integration

Sematext has been offering monitoring and log management for a while now, but in the most recent release we’ve further unified it, making it really...

November 12, 2017

Tighter metrics & logs integration

Sematext has been offering monitoring and log management for a while now, but in the most recent release we’ve further unified it, making it really...

October 18, 2017

Improved navigation, discoverability, and accessibility

We’ve restructured the UI. Everything you need can be quickly accessed via tabs on the left.  Account section is exposed, and Team-related functionality (invitations to apps...

October 9, 2017

React.js & Redux, pretty charts, better dashboards

Sematext Cloud UI looks and behaves differently. Indeed, we rewrote the whoooooole front-end using modern front-end technologies like React.js and Redux. We’ve switched to Chart.JS for charts, and...

August 2, 2017

S3 archiving & longer retention for Logs

Need to have your recent logs searchable for your DevOps team(s) to troubleshoot issues, but also need to archive old logs for compliance reasons? Many organizations need that and...

July 18, 2017

Alert rules & notification hooks sharing

Alert Rules and related Notification Hooks (aka Integrations) sharing option was updated. Now each Alert Rule and each Notification Hook is tied to account under which...

May 23, 2017

Elasticsearch 5.x and Kibana 5.x

We’ve refreshed our backend, or one of them at least. We’ve updated Elasticsearch to 5.x version. Along with it, we’ve updated the integrated version of...

May 14, 2017

Events surfaced all the way to the top

Unlike logs, which tend to be high volume, events are a little more infrequent, a little more special. Events are things like alerts, or deploys,...

April 17, 2017

Introducing instant templates & mappings

Logsene, our hosted ELK stack now part of Sematext Cloud, exposes the Elasticsearch API. If you have experience with Elasticsearch though, if you’re aware of its rich...

March 20, 2017

Payment logic changes

Up until now, Sematext Cloud users had to first provide their credit card details under their account and then manually assign that credit card to each monitoring...

February 21, 2017

Android SDK for log shipping & analytics

We’ve 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,...

February 14, 2017

iOS SDK for log shipping & analytics

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...