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Whether operations are running smoothly or you’re running into a number of hiccups, the question to IT is always the same – “What do we even pay you for?” Rather than viewing IT as a vital piece of the puzzle, organizations often view IT as a cost center, leading to warped perceptions of the importance of IT.

When it comes to centralizing logs to Elasticsearch, the first log shipper that comes to mind is Logstash. People hear about it even if it’s not clear what it does: – Bob: I’m looking to aggregate logs – Alice: you mean… like… Logstash? When you get into it, you realize centralizing logs often implies a bunch of things, and Logstash isn’t the only log shipper that fits the bill.

So by now, you are probably aware that InfluxData has been busy building the next generation of the InfluxDB storage engine. If you dig a little deeper, you will start to uncover some concepts that might be foreign to you: These open-source projects are some of the core building blocks that make up the new storage engine. For the most part, you won’t need to worry about what’s under the hood.