When managing cloud-native applications, it’s essential to have end-to-end visibility into what’s happening at any given time. This is especially true because of the distributed and dynamic nature of cloud-native apps, which are often deployed using ephemeral technologies like containers […]
Monitoring Linux Audit Logs with auditd and Auditbeat
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 […]
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 […]
Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud Management
By Eric Bruno One of the unintended side-effects of the public cloud is the enablement of a platform-agnostic cloud architecture. This means that it’s now easier than ever to mix offerings from multiple vendors (cloud vendors in this case) to […]
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 […]
5 Benefits to Run Elastic Stack in the Cloud
By Chris Riley What is the Elastic Stack? Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana — the trio better known as Elastic Stack (or ELK, if you prefer a term that is now going out of style), make up a powerful set of […]
The New Version of Logagent Enriches Container Logs with Metadata and GeoIP
Logagent is a modern, open-source, light-weight data shipper with out of the box and extensible log parsing, on-disk buffering, secure transport and bulk indexing to Elasticsearch and Sematext Cloud. Its low memory footprint and low CPU overhead make it suitable for […]
Elasticsearch Ingest Node vs Logstash Performance
Unless you are using a very old version of Elasticsearch you’re able to define pipelines within Elasticsearch itself and have those pipelines process your data in the same way you’d normally do it with something like Logstash. We decided to […]
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, […]