As a human who entered this space via marketing, I often turn to my teammates for context. I recently asked the hive, why do we like Monitorama so much?

Mobile enterprise asset management is a new trend that is liked and followed by everyone. It has changed the outlook of people in the industry, on how to precisely grow the reach in terms of asset management.

As users adopt Kubernetes, Elastic products move fast to support their evolving needs. Whether you are trying to run Elasticsearch workloads to Kubernetes or want to gain better visibility into container workloads running across different environments, we are doubling down on building cloud native tools to support these efforts. This blog covers recent advancements to support Kubernetes initiatives:

At the advent of the technological era, developers found themselves wasting hours of valuable resources on manual QA. As software was released, teams manually confirmed that it was bug-free and reliable, all the while testing new features and checking for regression of existing features. Unfortunately, this manual approach was prone to mistakes, created long delays in workflows and was tedious and time-consuming.

Augmented analytics is trending. You’ve read about it, you’ve heard about it, you may even be in the process of acquiring systems running it. But what exactly is it, and how can you recognize it? As the guys building augmented analytics, we’re here to dispel some of the hype. On the highest level, augmented analytics is the machine learning processes geared at making data more accessible and actionable for both data scientists and business users.

In the classic flick The Magnificent Seven, a pack of essentially decent but “don’t you dare park your horse in my spot or else you’ll get your spurs blasted” gunslingers come together to rid a village of some nasty bandits. There’s action. There’s drama. There’s tragedy. There’s humor. There’s romance. There’s Steve freakin’ McQueen. What’s not to love?

Have you ever needed to grab a log from a local server that is not part of the Windows Event Channel? Applications like IIS or DNS can write their logs to a local file, and you need to get them into your centralized logging server for correlation and visualization. Graylog sidecar can help by creating and managing a centralized configuration for a filebeat agent, to gather these types of logs across all your infrastructure hosts.

Within software development, application logging plays an important role. As much as we’d like our software to be perfect, issues will always arise within a production environment. When they do, a good logging strategy is crucial. But what is application logging? How should you be using application logs? Where can you find them? And what does all this mean for your own logging strategy? We’ll take a look at each of these questions in this post.

November Checkpoint updates and additions are here! This month, you have three new checkpoints, and we are proud to say that the three additions make for 215 worldwide checkpoint locations. We’ve also updated the IP addresses of two checkpoints.