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Video and Slides: Centralized Logging with Logstash and Elasticsearch
Sematext engineer and Elasticsearch / Logstash expert Rafal Kuc gave a well-received talk at the recent DevOps Days Warsaw event. The talk was titled “From Zero to Hero – Centralized Logging with...
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Elasticsearch Monitoring: SPM vs. Marvel
While many SPM Performance Monitoring users quickly see the benefits of SPM and adopt it in their organizations for monitoring — not just for Elasticsearch, but for their complete application stack —...
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Parsing and Centralizing Elasticsearch Logs with Logstash
No, it’s not an endless loop waiting to happen, the plan here is to use Logstash to parse Elasticsearch logs and send them to another Elasticsearch cluster or to a log analytics service like Logsene...
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Solr vs. Elasticsearch — How to Decide?
by Otis Gospodnetić [Otis is a Lucene, Solr, and Elasticsearch expert and co-author of “Lucene in Action” (1st and 2nd editions). He is also the founder and CEO of Sematext. See full bio below.] “Solr...
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Using Elasticsearch Mapping Types to Handle Different JSON Logs
By default, Elasticsearch does a good job of figuring the type of data in each field of your logs. But if you like your logs structured like we do, you probably want more control over how they’re...
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Monitoring rsyslog’s Performance with impstats and Elasticsearch
If you’re using rsyslog for processing lots of logs (and, as we’ve shown before, rsyslog is good at processing lots of logs), you’re probably interested in monitoring it. To do that, you can use...
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Elasticsearch Training at GeeCON 2015
For those of you interested in some comprehensive Elasticsearch training taught by experts (and authors of several Elasticsearch books!) who know it inside and out, you are in luck if you are attending...
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How to use Kibana 4 with Logsene Log Management
Did you know that Logsene provides a complete ELK Stack; i.e., a complete Log management, analytics, exploration, and visualization solution? Logsene currently supports Kibana 3 with complete Kibana 4...
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Recipe: Reindexing Elasticsearch Documents with Logstash
If you’re working with Elasticsearch, it’s very likely that you’ll need to reindex data at some point. The most popular reason is because you need a mapping change that is incompatible with your...
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Top 10 Elasticsearch Metrics to Watch
Elasticsearch is booming. Together with Logstash, a tool for collecting and processing logs, and Kibana, a tool for searching and visualizing data in Elasticsearch (aka the “ELK” stack), adoption of...
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Elasticsearch Training in Berlin – Wednesday, June 3
For those of you interested in some comprehensive Elasticsearch training taught by experts from Sematext who know it inside and out, we’re running an Elasticsearch Intro workshop in Berlin on...
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Presentation: Tuning Elasticsearch Indexing Pipeline for Logs
Fresh from GeeCON in Krakow…we have another Elasticsearch and Logging manifesto from Sematext engineers — and book authors — Rafal Kuc and Radu Gheorghe. As with many of their previous presentations,...
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Side by Side with Elasticsearch and Solr: Performance and Scalability
Back by popular demand! Sematext engineers Radu Gheorghe and Rafal Kuc are returning to Berlin Buzzwords next Tuesday, June 2, with the second installment of their “Side by Side with Elasticsearch and...
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eBook: Elasticsearch Monitoring Essentials
Elasticsearch is booming. Together with Logstash, a tool for collecting and processing logs, and Kibana, a tool for searching and visualizing data in Elasticsearch (aka the “ELK stack”), adoption of...
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1-Click ELK Stack: Hosted Kibana 4
We just pushed a new release of Logsene to production, including 1-Click Access to Kibana 4! Did you know that Logsene provides a complete ELK Stack? Logsene’s indexing and search API is compatible...
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New Elasticsearch Reports: Warmers, Thread Pools and Circuit Breakers
Have you read the Top 10 Elasticsearch Metrics to Watch? How about our free eBook – Elasticsearch Monitoring Essentials? If you have, we’re impressed. If not, it’s great bedtime reading. ;) Besides...
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Replaying Elasticsearch Slowlogs with Logstash and JMeter
Sometimes we just need to replay production queries – whether it’s because we want a realistic load test for the new version of a product or because we want to reproduce, in a test environment, a bug...
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Elasticsearch Training in New York City — October 19-20
For those of you interested in some comprehensive Elasticsearch and ELK Stack (Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana) training taught by experts from Sematext who know them inside and out, we’re running a...
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Top 10 Elasticsearch Mistakes
_________________________________________________________________________ Upgrading to the new major version right after its release without waiting for the inevitable .1 release Remembering that you...
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Recipe: rsyslog + Redis + Logstash
OK, so you want to hook up rsyslog with Logstash. If you don’t remember why you want that, let me give you a few hints: Logstash can do lots of things, it’s easy to set up but tends to be too heavy to...
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