This recipe is similar to the previous rsyslog + Redis + Logstash one, except that we’ll use Kafka as a central buffer and connecting point instead of Redis. You’ll have more of the same advantages: rsyslog is light and crazy-fast, […]
Black Friday log management (with the Elastic Stack) checklist
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 […]
Search-Devops.com – Search DevOps Projects
As the world of software is growing, so is the ecosystem of DevOps tools and resources – for monitoring, for logging, for alerting, for continuous integration and deployment, configuration management, etc. Nothing wrong with having lots of resources and tools, but here at […]
Open Source Docker Monitoring & Logging
Pets ⇒ Cattle ⇒ Orchestration Docker is growing by leaps and bounds, and along with it its ecosystem. Being light, the predominant container deployment involves running just a single app or service inside each container. Most software products and services […]
Docker Swarm: Collecting Metrics, Events & Logs
Update: Docker “Swarm Mode”: Full Cluster Monitoring & Logging with 1 Command Docker Swarm is a cluster manager for Docker. When accessed via the Docker API by Docker API Clients or Docker command line tools, a Docker Swarm cluster looks […]
Docker + Solr How-to: Monitoring the Official Solr Docker Image
The official Solr Image on Docker Hub was released just a few weeks ago and already has 16K pulls. Why not more? Well, there are more than 200 different Solr images on Docker Hub — probably because no official Image was […]
Recipe: Apache Logs + rsyslog (parsing) + Elasticsearch
More than two years ago we posted a recipe on how to centralize syslog in Elasticsearch in order to search and analyze them with Kibana, all by using only rsyslog. This works well, because rsyslog is fast and light, as […]
Recipe: rsyslog + Redis + Logstash
OK, so you want to hook up rsyslog with Logstash. If you don’t remember why you want that, let me give you a few hints: Logstash can do lots of things, it’s easy to set up but tends to be […]
Processing Metrics, Logs and Traces at Scale – DevOps Talk
If topics like performance monitoring and processing metrics, log management, and distributed transaction tracing — at scale, no less! — interest you, then you’ll want to check out what Sematext founder Otis Gospodnetić had to say at this week’s DevOps […]