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 […]
Better Observability with New Container Agents
Why a New Docker Agent? If you liked Sematext Docker Agent you’ll love our new agent for Docker monitoring that provides you with even more insight into your Docker, Kubernetes, and Swarm clusters. Because of its power, small footprint, and ease […]
Docker Container Monitoring Open Source Tools
In Part 1: Docker Container monitoring and management Challenges – we discussed why container monitoring is challenging, especially in the context of orchestration tools. In Part 2 we described Top 10 Container Metrics to Monitor. Next, let’s have a look at examples […]
Centralized AWS Lambda Logs with Kinesis and Serverless
The key to gaining serverless observability is sending all AWS Lambda Logs to a central location where you can later group, filter and make sense of them. Sematext is a full-stack observability solution for your entire software stack. Meaning you can […]
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 […]
APM vs. Log Management: How Logging and Monitoring are Different & Why…
By Chris Tozzi APM or Log Management? If you deploy and manage an application, these are the two key techniques available to you for helping to ensure that the application meets availability and performance expectations. One of them is application […]
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 […]