Flume

The Log Shipper Poll results are in!  We run Logsene here at Sematext, so we wanted to know what the best log shippers are and what people like to use to ship their logs.  Before we share the results, a few […]

Interested in log indexing using Elasticsearch or Solr?  Also interested in searching and analyzing logs in real time? This topic really hits home for us since we released our log analytics tool, Logsene and we also offer consulting services for logging infrastructure.  If […]

A while ago we published the slides from our talk at Lucene Revolution about using Solr for indexing and searching logs. This topic is of special interest for us, since we’ve released Logsene and we’re also offering consulting services for […]

Since we’ve added Solr output for Logstash, indexing logs via Logstash has become a possibility.  But what if you are not using (only) Logstash?  Are there other ways you can index logs in Solr?  Oh yeah, there are!  The following […]

Last week involved a few late nights for some of us at Sematext – we were busy readying our Scalable Performance Monitoring services, as well as putting the final touches on the our Search Analytics: Business Value & NoSQL Backend presentation […]

This quick How-To post will teach you how to use HBase sink(s) in Flume. There are currently two generic HBase sinks available: hbase() and attr2hbase(). The former requires one to be more explicit when providing mapping from event data to […]

After our Lucene Revolution talk in Boston, we got ready for last week’s Hadoop World conference in New York.  Like at the Lucene Revolution, we presented to a packed room of 200+ people. The topic of our talk was the […]

Besides working with search in general and Lucene/Solr/Nutch in particular, we also work with Hadoop, HBase, and other related technologies.  This October we’ll be presenting at Hadoop World (see the schedule).  The title of our talk is Search Analytics with […]