Why a New Docker Agent? If you liked Sematext Docker Agent you’ll love our new agent for Docker monitoring that provides you with even more insight into your Docker, Kubernetes, and Swarm clusters. Because of its power, small footprint, and ease […]
Docker Container Monitoring Open Source Tools
In Part 1: Docker Container monitoring and management Challenges – we discussed why container monitoring is challenging, especially in the context of orchestration tools. In Part 2 we described Top 10 Container Metrics to Monitor. Next, let’s have a look at examples […]
Open Distro for Elasticsearch Review
Over the years the adoption of Elasticsearch and its ecosystem of tools positioned them as the leaders in the time series data management and analysis market. With strong search capabilities, great analytical engine, Kibana as the flexible frontend and a […]
4 Best Practices for Choosing your DevOps Tools
By Chris Tozzi If you google “DevOps tools,” you’ll see a dizzying litany of software applications, all promising to simplify your life as a DevOps engineer. This can be an intimidating experience — not only because there are so many […]
Recipe: How to integrate rsyslog with Kafka and Logstash
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 […]
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 […]