Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

July 2018

Logtrail + Kibana = Retro Terminal Experience

Logtrail is a popular Kibana plugin that makes Kibana look like Papertrail. Sematext’s Logtrail view in Kibana gives you the terminal-like experience of exploring logs without the pain of needing to ssh into machines. With Logtrail you can see new logs appearing at the bottom of the screen instead of the top screen, you can filter logs like with grep, and “jump” to different parts of the log stream like when using less.

Elasticsearch Service: Getting Started with Hosted Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch Service is a hosted Elasticsearch solution from Elastic. Elasticsearch Service makes it easy to deploy and manage your Elasticsearch clusters. Just tell us the size of your cluster, your preferred cloud provider, and the geographic location; we take care of the rest.

XpoLog Announces: New Analytics App for Linux Logs

XpoLog 7 brings your data into a new age of log analysis and management. While the industry is focused on developing advanced search abilities and simplifying log analysis, nobody has been able to resolve the persistent issues of the long, complex and tedious deployments. Up until today! XpoLog 7 is proud to offer full automation of the entire log management lifecycle!

Centralized Logging Solution for Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Next '18)

In this session, we’ll give practical guidance on consolidating and managing your logs, share tips on both what to log and what not to log, discuss logging agents and their potential pitfalls, and show you how to extract value from your log entries for reporting and alerting on logs.

How the New Influx Query Engine Was Designed-And How to Use It With Grafana

Flux, the long-awaited new functional query processing engine for InfluxDB, has finally landed. If you’re curious to learn more about the hows and whys of its design, check out this GrafanaCon EU session with InfluxData Cofounder and CTO Paul Dix. Also we’d like to share a recent presentation from David Kaltschmidt, Director, UX for Grafana Labs on the new Flux support in Grafana!

How to Start Logging & Invite Team Members in LogDNA's Log Management System

LogDNA is the easiest, fastest log management tool available. Our head of DevOps Ryan Staatz showcases how to get started with LogDNA, ingest logs from numerous platforms - Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Syslog, etc., then add team members to join a central organization for centralized log management and analysis.

Level Up With Derived Columns: Bucketing Events For Comparison

When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t realize just how many different ways folks could use them. We use them all the time to improve our perspective when looking at data as we use Honeycomb internally, so we decided to share. So, in this series, Honeycombers share their favorite derived column use cases and explain how to achieve them.

KeywordHero: Saving you from the dreaded 'not provided' in Analytics

Organic keyword data, which was till now the essential around which SEO experts and digital agencies revolved, suddenly became “not provided” since 2011. Unless you were prepared to face the hardships, you had to wonder if there was an easier way out. KeywordHero assures to clear up the ‘not provided’ information that you see in your Google Analytics for any website. So, does it work as promised?

Logz.io Teams up with AWS to Expand Global Access to AI-Driven Machine Data Analysis

Boston and Tel Aviv–July 19, 2018–Logz.io, the leading provider of AI-powered log analysis, announces the release of its intelligent log analysis platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. The Logz.io platform is the first and only ELK solution offered on the AWS Marketplace, giving AWS customers worldwide access to powerful capabilities for extracting actionable insights from machine data.

Logging, Six Ways from Sunday: How to Use the New Logging Module for Orion® - SolarWinds Lab #67

In this episode, join product manager Jamie Hynds and Head Geeks Patrick Hubbard and Leon Adato as they walk you through how to use the new log management module, review best practices to get the most out of syslogs, and of course cover how-to’s for deployment management and configuration.

Paul Dix | Flux (#fluxlang): a new (time series) data scripting language

Paul will outline his vision around the platform and give the latest updates on Flux (a new Data Scripting language), the decoupling of query and storage, the impact of hybrid cloud environments on architecture, cardinality, and discuss the technical directions of the platform. This talk will walk through the vision and architecture with demonstrations of working prototypes of the projects.

Guest Blog Post: Ballerina Makeover with Grafana

In this guest blog post from the folks at Ballerina, Anjana shows you how you can easily visualize metrics from a Ballerina service with Grafana, walking you step by step through the installation and configuration of the components. They’ve also extended an offer for a free ticket to their upcoming Ballerinacon to the Grafana community.

There And Back Again: A Honeycomb Tracing Story

In our previous post about Honeycomb Tracing, we used tracing to better understand Honeycomb’s own query path. When doing this kind of investigation, you typically have to go back and forth, zooming out and back in again, between your analytics tool and your tracing tool, often losing context in the process.

Large-Scale Log Management Deployment with Graylog: A User Perspective

Juraj Kosik, an Infrastructure Security Technical Lead at Deutsche Telekom Pan-Net, has written a detailed case study of how his organization implemented Graylog to centralize log data from multiple data centers exceeding 1 TB/day. His case study provides thorough insights into real-world issues you might run into when implementing and operating a log management platform in a large-scale cloud environment.

Grafana Vs Graphite

The amount of data being generated today is unprecedented. In fact, more data has been created in the last 2 years, than in the entire history of the human race. With such volume, it’s crucial for companies to be able to harness their data in order to further their business goals. A big part of this is analyzing data and seeing trends, and this is where solutions such as Graphite and Grafana become critical.

Level Up With Derived Columns: Understanding Screen Size (With Basic Arithmetic)

When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t realize just how many different ways folks could use them. We use them all the time to improve our perspective when looking at data as we use Honeycomb internally, so we decided to share. So, in this series, Honeycombers share their favorite derived column use cases and explain how to achieve them.

You Can Improve Your Customer Satisfaction Charlie Brown!

What’s surprising to see today is how business operations struggle to get an integrated view of all business metrics. With greater volumes of data being collected, data analysts just can’t keep up with the pace. This state of affairs alone doesn’t hit as hard as the fact that many in data analytics have just come to accept this situation as a norm and simply bear with this daily struggle.

GrafanaCon Recap: The State of TSDB

At GrafanaCon EU, we gathered representatives of the Graphite, Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Timescale projects in the hopes of starting a spirited conversation about the current state of Time Series Databases. They didn’t disappoint! Here are a few highlights from the TSDB panel featuring Erik Nordstrom from Timescale, Dan Cech from Graphite, Paul Dix from InfluxDB, and Tom Wilkie from Prometheus, and moderated by Grafana Labs co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt.

Instrument Your Python App Automatically With The Honeycomb Beeline for Python

We’ve been on a roll this year with Beelines, our integrations for quick, easy, and automagic instrumentation of your apps. You may have already seen our Node.js, Ruby, and Go beelines – today, we’re excited to announce the release of the Honeycomb Beeline for Python!

Benchmarking InfluxDB vs. Elasticsearch for Time Series

In this technical paper, we'll compare the performance and features of InfluxDB 1.4.2 vs. Elasticsearch 5.6.3 for common time series workloads, specifically looking at the rates of data ingestion, on-disk data compression, and query performance. This data should prove valuable to developers and architects evaluating the suitability of these technologies for their use case.

AI and Machine Learning in Your Organization

Digital transformation has led to complex environments that continuously generate new data. As a result, organizations are left unsure about how to best use their data to foster growth and edge out the competition. It's not enough to just have mountains of data, it needs to be analyzed and made sense of in a way that best suits the business.