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Sematext provides a single pane of glass and machine learning powered alerts for logs, metrics, traces and user experience data. Sematext Cloud provides advanced monitoring, logging and tracing for all Docker platforms such as Docker EE, Kubernetes, GKE, AWS ECS, and IBM Cloud. Sematext’s new monitoring agent leverages the powerful eBPF Linux kernel observability functionality and uses the Kubernetes API to enrich the container and cluster level metrics.

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 deploying on edge nodes and devices, while its ability to parse and structure logs makes it a great Logstash alternative.

Grafana v5.4 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes. This article will detail the major new features and enhancements.

We are happy to announce that Graylog v2.5 is now available. This release includes several new features, including support for Elasticsearch 6.x, along with numerous bug fixes.

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was authored in 2016 and became applicable on May 25th of 2018. You can read the regulation in its entirety in this PDF. If you have legal questions about GDPR and how it applies to your organization, you should seek the advice of a professional who is familiar with the regulation.

Lots to catchup on this week after taking a break for Thanksgiving, so let’s dive in! This week we share the video from the ‘Logging is coming to Grafana’ talk, an article on how Stack Overflow tackles monitoring, a shout out from AWS re:Invent 2018, and a plugin preview for Timestream, Amazon’s new TSDB for IoT apps.

Quality assurance is a priority at Evolution Gaming, the world leader in live casino gaming, and as Andrejs Kalnacs, Lead Software Developer in Test, said during his GrafanaCon EU talk in March, Grafana has been a game changer. While Kalnacs and his team have found Grafana to be invaluable in many areas, here are three best practices they’ve learned throughout their journey.

Investing in a log analysis tool provides many benefits: it saves time needed to detect and troubleshoot a problem, reduces churn by providing a better user experience, and improves system security. There is a wide scope of use cases for log analysis - from tackling security and performance issues head-on to enhancing the quality of your services. What are some of the most common use cases for log file analysis?