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Logstash Performance Monitoring (1.2.2 vs 1.2.1)
We’re using Logstash to collect some of our own logs here at Sematext, because it can easily forward events to Logsene via the elasticsearch_http output. And we recently upgraded to the latest version...
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Presentation: Introduction to Elasticsearch
During the New York Search, Discovery and Analytics group in November, we did a presentation on Introduction to Elasticsearch. It was about how you can use Elasticsearch to store, search and analyze...
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Video: Using Solr for Logs with Rsyslog, Flume, Fluentd and Logstash
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...
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5-minute Logstash: Parsing and Sending a Log File
We like Logstash a lot here, because it’s a good (if not the) swiss-army knife for logs. Plus, it’s one of the easiest logging tools to get started with, which is exactly what this post is about. In...
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Rsyslog 8.1 Elasticsearch Output Performance
Recently, the first rsyslog version 8 release was announced. Major changes in its core should give outputs better performance, and the one for Elasticsearch should benefit a lot. Since we’re using...
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Meetup: Indexing and Searching Logs with Elasticsearch and Solr
If you are into logging and search like we are, and if you are in New York, like some of us are, come to Indexing and Searching Logs with Elasticsearch and Solr on Wednesday at Pivotal Labs office in...
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JOB: Professional Services Lead – Solr and Elasticsearch
We have a great opportunity at Sematext for a person who wants to take the Professional Services Lead role and grow both him/herself in this role as well as grow the whole Professional Services side of...
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Video and Presentation: Indexing and Searching Logs with Elasticsearch or Solr
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,...
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Encrypting Logs on Their Way to Elasticsearch
Let’s assume you want to send your logs to Elasticsearch, so you can search or analyze them in realtime. If your Elasticsearch cluster is in a remote location (EC2?) or is our log analytics service,...
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Encrypting Logs on Their Way to Elasticsearch Part 2: TLS Syslog
In part 1 of the “encrypted logs” series we discussed sending logs to Elasticsearch over HTTPS. This second part is about TLS syslog. If you wonder what this has to do with Elasticsearch, the point is...
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Parameterizing Queries in Solr and Elasticsearch
We all know how good it is to have abstraction layers in software we create. We tend to abstract implementation from the method contracts using interfaces, we use n-tier architectures so that we can...
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Elasticsearch Server by Rafal Kuc & Marek Rogozinski – now updated!
Use Elasticsearch now? Thinking about using Elasticsearch? Wish there was a comprehensive resource that pulled everything you ever wanted to know about Elasticsearch together in one place? Fret not...
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Berlin Buzzwords 2014 – Side by Side with Elasticsearch and Solr
Last year at Berlin Buzzwords two Sematext Engineers had the opportunity to give two talks. Radu talked about “JSON Logging with Elasticsearch” (video, slides) and Rafał did the second round of Solr vs...
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Podcast: Tools to Monitor Solr, Manage Logs & Analyze Search Trends
Sematext Founder & President Otis Gospodnetic recently spoke with LucidWorks Chief of Product, Will Hayes as part of their SolrCluster podcast series. Otis and Will discussed tools that Sematext...
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Presentation and Video: Side by Side with Solr and Elasticsearch
Fresh from Berlin Buzzwords where Sematext‘s own Radu Gheorghe and Rafal Kuc presented “Side by Side with Solr and Elasticsearch” on the same stage, at the same time…but in different colors. The talk...
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JOB: Elasticsearch / Solr Engineer
We’ve grown nicely this year. Our team has a new UI Developer, a new Solr/Elasticsearch Engineer, a new Marketing person, a new Automation Engineer, and this summer we have the first ever Intern. Like...
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JOB: Elasticsearch / Lucene Engineer (starts in the Netherlands)
In addition to looking for an Elasticsearch / Solr Engineer to join the Sematext team, we are also looking for an Lucene / Elasticsearch Engineer in EU for a specific project. This project calls for 6...
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Talk: Using Logstash and Elasticsearch Together
Sematext engineer and Elasticsearch / Logstash expert Rafal Kuc is giving a talk about using Logstash and Elasticsearch together at DevOps Days Warsaw on September 26. The talk is titled “From zero to...
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Correlating Metrics and Logs — Use Case: Elasticsearch Indexing
Here’s one way users can benefit from the SPM Performance Monitoring, Alerting and Anomaly Detection and Logsene Log Management and Analytics integration we just announced in the latest release....
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Job: Sematext is hiring – Elasticsearch Engineer
The Sematext team is more distributed than your average Elasticsearch cluster and, trust me, we’ve seen a a good portion of the world’s Elasticsearch clusters. The thing with Elasticsearch clusters is...
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