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 […]
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 […]
Alert Rule & Notification Hook Management
We’ve changed how Alert Rules & Notification Hooks are handled in Sematext Cloud. They now live at Account level, not App level, which makes their management much simpler, more intuitive, much more suitable for modern teams, as described in Alert […]
Alert Rules & Notification Hooks Sharing
Besides completely revamping the Sematext Cloud user interface recently (hello ReactJS & Redux!), we’ve also made some changes to how certain features work. One of them is related to Alert Rules and related Notification Hooks (aka Integrations). Previously, Alert Rules […]
Monitoring rsyslog with Kibana and SPM
A while ago we published this post where we explained how you can get stats about rsyslog, such as the number of messages enqueued, the number of output errors and so on. The point was to send them to Elasticsearch […]
5-Minute Recipe: Log Alerting and Anomaly Detection
Until software becomes so sophisticated that it becomes truly self-healing without human intervention it will remain important that we humans be notified of any problems with computing systems we run. This is especially true for large or distributed systems where […]
Integrate PagerDuty with SPM Performance Monitoring
Got Alarm Fatigue? If so, you are not alone! We talk to a lot of people who want to reduce the frequent “noise” from monitoring alarms. To solve this common problem, Sematext added anomaly detection for alerts and PagerDuty integration […]
Integrating SPM Performance Monitoring with HipChat
Many agile DevOps teams rely on communication via HipChat, which provides an API and mobile apps to receive messages while being away from one’s desktop. SPM Performance Monitoring‘s new integration via WebHooks provides the capability to forward alerts to many […]
Announcement: New Functionality in SPM and Logsene
Summer is all but officially over, yet our work with SPM Performance Monitoring, Alerting and Anomaly Detection and Logsene Log Management and Analytics is not. While lots of us took a well-deserved break over the last 1-2 months, we added […]