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Docker Stats Monitoring: Taking Dockbeat for a Ride
There is no silver bullet. This is how I always answer those asking about the best logging solution for Docker. A bit pessimistic of me, I know. But what I’m implying with that statement is that there...
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Installing the Elastic Stack 5.0 Beta
After five alpha versions, Elastic recently announced the availability of the first beta version of the long awaited Elastic Stack 5.0 (the new name for ELK). If Elastic feels this version is stable...
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Amazon EC2 Container System (ECS) Log Analysis – Part 2
In the previous post in this series, I explained how to log ECS container API actions with CloudTrail and ELK. In this second part of the series, I will describe how to log the Docker containers...
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Sysdig and ELK: A Match (Potentially) Made in Heaven
Sysdig is a powerful tool for Linux system and container monitoring. Capturing system activity directly from the kernel, Sysdig allows process tracing and analysis and includes both a CLI and UI for...
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How to Power Your IT Operations With Artificial Intelligence
Last week we hosted a webinar explaining how our new artificial intelligence technology — Cognitive Insights™ — revolutionizes the way that DevOps and IT Operations teams perform log analysis. Here’s...
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AWS re:Invent 2016: 10 Sessions You Must Not Miss
Autumn in Las Vegas means one thing — it’s time for AWS re:Invent. One of the largest global technological events in the world and the most important event in the world of cloud computing, re:Invent...
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Elasticsearch Mapping: The Basics, Two Types, and a Few Examples
Within a search engine, mapping defines how a document is indexed and how its fields are indexed and stored. We can compare mapping to a database schema in how it describes the fields and properties...
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Logging Docker Containers with AWS CloudWatch
One of the ways to log Docker containers is to use the logging drivers added by Docker last year. These drivers log the stdout and stderr output of a Docker container to a destination of your choice —...
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Playing Around with Metricbeat and Elastic Stack 5.0
After a long wait, the greatly anticipated release of Elastic Stack 5.0 — the new name for the ELK Stack — was announced. (You can see our guide on installing the Elastic Stack beta here.) In the next...
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Integrating Logz.io with PagerDuty & Using Aggregations for Alerts
One of the most popular features Logz.io provides its users with is the built-in alerting mechanism. Coupled with the rich indexing and querying capabilities that are part and parcel of Elasticsearch...
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Reporting From the Front of AWS re:Invent 2016
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — AWS CEO Andy Jassy really enjoyed the keynote he gave yesterday at AWS re:Invent. Thirty-two thousand attendees watched him jab Oracle founder Larry Ellison while he spoke about...
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Using Kibana Timelion for Time Series Analysis
First introduced by Elastic a year ago, Kibana’s Timelion is another step in closing the gap between Kibana and Grafana. Both these visualization tools have their own strengths and weaknesses (see...
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Taking a Look at 5 Startups at AWS re:Invent 2016
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — AWS rules the cloud. This is no secret, and last week’s re:Invent reaffirmed this. It’s much more than a feeling or impression though — it’s backed in numbers and data. Any...
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Log Correlation with Logz.io and Datadog
Logs contain extremely valuable information. They can tell you what happened and when. It’s the why that is challenging. In log analysis, the problem is that none of the logs contain a message clearly...
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The Docker Datacenter: Agile Application Development for Enterprise DevOps
Docker’s Datacenter offering makes it easy for enterprises to set up their own internal containers-as-a-service (CaaS) environments. Put simply, the new package helps to integrate Docker into...
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Aggregated Alerting for Logs with Logz.io and BigPanda
In previous posts, I wrote about the integration between Logz.io and Datadog and PagerDuty. In this article, I’d like to introduce you to an additional new integration — this time with BigPanda. Just...
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Announcing the Logz.io Search API
There’s nothing like starting a new week — not to mention the new year — with new product-related announcements! In this case, I’m happy to inform our users of a new Search API that will enable them...
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Logging A Docker Environment with Portainer (Or Not)
For the sake of our dedicated readers, let’s start with the conclusion: Portainer is not a logging solution for Docker. But wait! Before you move on — Portainer is an extremely useful and easy-to-use...
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Securing Elasticsearch Clusters Following the Recent Ransom Attacks
If you’re an ELK user, there is little chance that you missed the news about the recent ransom attacks on Elasticsearch clusters. Following similar attacks on MongoDB, it seems that it is open season...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Elasticsearch Plugins
Elasticsearch plugins are used to extend the basic Elasticsearch functionality in various, specific ways. There are types, for example, that add security functionality, discovery mechanisms, and...
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