Era Software has unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its platform for collecting and managing log data that is based on a time-series database it built. At the same time, the company has revamped the user interface of the underlying EraSearch log management platform that IT teams can deploy themselves to make it simpler to […]
EraDB Launches Log Management Alternative
EraDB today launched EraSearch to provide IT teams with an alternative to open source ElasticSearch software for managing logs at scale. Todd Persen, EraDB’s CEO, said EraSearch is based on a modern database that decouples storage and compute. In this way, EraSearch can scale more efficiently than ElasticSearch, while providing IT teams with the same […]
Why DevOps are Keen on Open Source Logging
With the advent of DevOps, we are now moving toward more collaborative workflow models, where the integration of development and operations teams make it easier to quickly move development projects into production, and with fewer roadblocks. However, within DevOps, many of our activities are not as clear-cut as they were in previous siloed methods. While […]
Logz.io Adds Monitoring Service Based on ELK and Grafana
Logz.io today at the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference launched Cloud Observability Platform, a monitoring and security cloud service based on ELK—open source Elasticsearch, a search engine; Logstash, a data processing pipeline; and Kibana, a set of visualization tools—and Grafana, an analytics and monitoring platform. Company CEO Tomer Levy said it’s become apparent that developers have […]
Application Monitoring Using Stagemonitor
This article covers important steps to monitor a typical Java application using Stagemonitor tool, Kibana as a dashboard viewing tool and Elasticsearch as a data processing engine. Stagemonitor is an open source Java application performance monitoring (APM) tool that provides everything you need in development, quality assurance and production to monitor the performance of your […]
DevOps Chat: CHAOSSEARCH New Spin on Big Data Analysis
Analysis is the dark cloud overhanging big data — it’s difficult without the right tools. Elasticsearch by Elastic has become ubiquitous in helping organizations, but it can get unwieldy, as storage combining with compute is tricky. CHAOSSEARCH is an early stage startup designed to make searching massive amounts of data using elasticsearch and Amazon S3 […]
Splunk and the ELK Stack: A Side-by-Side Comparison
This article’s purpose is to compare the “big two” in the log analytics world—Splunk and the ELK Stack. But before we go into details, a short introduction to the competitors is required. Splunk is the “Google for log files” heavyset enterprise tool that was the first log analysis software and has been the market leader […]
DevOpsQA NJ Meetup – ELK Stack
Our guest speaker at the May DevOpsQA NJ Meetup was Peter Kim from Elastic. Peter is a Solutions Architect at Elastic with over 10 years of experience architecting and developing search applications with Endeca, MarkLogic and core Lucene. He gave us a great overview of ELK Stack, which consists of ElasticSearch, LogStash and Kibana. In […]
A How to Guide on Modern Monitoring and Alerting
syslog-ng, riemann, collectd-notifications, elasticsearch: putting it all together Context At our organization (CCIN2P3) we are building an event-based infrastructure to push structured messages to different subsystems for alerting, reporting and storage. Using syslog-ng, each message is normalized into a structured event, optionally correlated with other messages, and conditionally routed to the next systems, including: a […]