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Scaling Elasticsearch by Cleaning the Cluster State

We often get questions like: How much data can I put in an Elasticsearch cluster? How many nodes can an Elasticsearch cluster have? What's the biggest cluster that you've seen?

10 Key Benefits of DevOps

DevOps is a practice that combines software development and IT operations to improve the speed, quality, and efficiency of software delivery. By breaking down traditional silos between development and operations

10 Major DevOps Challenges & Issues Teams Are Facing and Their Solutions

To enhance their continuous delivery initiative, companies have long started to switch to a DevOps culture. By adapting best practices such as CI/CD pipeline, continuous testing or continuous security, teams

12 DevOps Best Practices Teams Should Follow

DevOps is a software development philosophy that helps organizations achieve faster delivery, better quality, and more reliable software, making it easier to adapt to changing business needs and customer demands.

Top 30+ Best DevOps Tools in 2023: A Comprehensive List of Automation Technologies You May Not Be Using in Your Pipeline

The software is getting more and more complicated and so is the infrastructure behind it. It is no longer what it used to be with a single web or application

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,

DevOps Toolchain Explained: What Is & How to Create One. Choosing Between Buying or Building Your Own Tools

Over the past few years, we've seen an almost obsession with developing and adopting CI/CD tools throughout the DevOps community. There are thousands of "how-to's", "top x tools", and "tool

Building Highly Effective DevOps Teams: Structure, Roles & Responsibilities You Need to Succeed

When it started to really get traction as a concept, almost 10 years ago, DevOps was primarily used to push rapid changes to web environments with minimal impact on the

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,

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

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

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.

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