The Linux Audit framework is a kernel feature (paired with userspace tools) that can log system calls. For example, opening a file, killing a process or creating a network connection. These audit logs can be used to monitor systems for […]
Monitoring Elasticsearch with Sematext
As shown in Elasticsearch Key Metrics, the setup, tuning, and operations of Elasticsearch require deep insights into the performance metrics such as index rate, query rate, query latency, merge times, and many more. Sematext provides an excellent alternative to other Elasticsearch monitoring […]
Elasticsearch Open Source Monitoring Tools
This article is the second of a three-part series of articles about Elasticsearch monitoring. In the first article, we put together an Elasticsearch guide, covering how Elasticsearch works and why the setup and tuning of Elasticsearch require a good knowledge of […]
Top 10 Elasticsearch Metrics to Monitor
This article is part 2 of a four-part series of articles about Elasticsearch monitoring. In this part, we’re going to look at Elasticsearch’s capabilities and potential use cases. We’re also going to discuss a brief tutorial on what it takes […]
Elasticsearch Montoring Guide
This article (the first of a four-part series) explains how to get started developing an Elasticsearch monitoring strategy. In subsequent articles (part 2, part 3 and part 4), we’ll discuss top 10 Elasticsearch metrics to monitor, followed by Elasticsearch open […]
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 […]
Elastic Stack Features (formerly X-Pack) Alternatives Comparison
Elastic Stack Features (formerly X-Pack) is an Elastic Stack extension that bundles security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, and graph capabilities. One could use either all or specific components. Elastic Stack Features as Splunk Alternative People love Splunk. But not its price. So […]
Use Case Focused Elasticsearch Online Training Classes to Fit Your Exact Needs
We’ve been working with Elasticsearch since its inception, either with clients on consulting for Elasticsearch products and Elasticsearch production support, or by building our own hosted log management solution. For the last 4 years, we’ve also been sharing our knowledge […]
Generating Word Embeddings with Gensim’s word2vec
During our Activate presentation, we talked about how to do query expansion by dynamically generating synonyms. Instead of statically defining synonyms lists, we showed a demo of how you could use word2vec to derive synonyms from a dataset. Before we […]