Centralizing logs to Elasticsearch? Of course, the first log shipper that comes to mind is Logstash. When you get into it, you realize centralizing logs often implies a bunch of things, and Logstash isn’t the only log shipper that fits […]
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How to Detect Malicious Traffic in Your Server Logs: Sematext + Access Watch
Do you know what portion of your traffic comes from bots? Do you know which bots are good and which ones are bad? Do you know what the bad bots are up to? We all know Googlebot and consider it […]
Metrics & Logs – Together or Separate?
Every modern organization depends on software, and where there is software there are metrics and logs and, one would hope, monitoring of these two critically important types of data. Operations teams have traditionally used two separate sets of tools – […]
Log Event Context
Being able to see the context of a specific log message is one of those highly sought out features in Kibana that still seems to be missing (though we can see the light at the end of that long tunnel […]
S3 Archiving & Longer Retention for Logs
Need to have your recent logs searchable for your DevOps team(s) to troubleshoot issues, but also need to archive old logs for compliance reasons? Many organizations need that and Sematext Cloud makes that simple. You can certainly simply pick […]
Elasticsearch 5.x and Kibana 5.x
We’ve refreshed not only the Sematext Cloud UI, but also our backend, or one of them at least. Last week, we’ve updated Elasticsearch to the latest 5.x version. Along with it, we’ve updated the integrated version of Kibana to which […]
How to ship Kibana Server Logs to Elasticsearch
Last updated on Dec 14, 2017 When dealing with log centralization in your organization you have to start with something. Often times people start by collecting logs for the most crucial pieces of software, and frequently one chooses to ship […]
Log Management for IBM Bluemix and Cloud Foundry
Enterprises without DevOps teams and culture typically experience long applications deployment cycles. Once developers make a new release the operations team needs to deploy it to one of the existing or new servers, and it often takes a long time […]
Kubernetes Containers: Logging and Monitoring support
In this post we will: Introduce Kubernetes concepts and motivation for Kubernetes-aware monitoring and logging tooling Show how to deploy the Sematext Docker Agent to each Kubernetes node with DaemonSet Point out key Kubernetes metrics and log elements to help […]
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