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How and Why to Monitor Logs: All You Need to Know

Logs. You have them. You need to keep track of them. The process of log monitoring can be tedious. Typically it’s one of those things we take for granted and only look at when it stops working. So, how do you deal with them? In this post, we’re going to talk about why and how to monitor logs. Toward the end, we’ll discuss a few tools that’ll help, mostly to avoid manual labor.

What is Autodiscover for Filebeat? And why do we need it?

Microservices constantly change in containerized environs, making pod or node identification and their logging more of a challenge. Autodiscover simplifies monitoring movements in these sorts of environments—places like Kubernetes and Docker. Autodiscover allows you to track pods and adapt settings as changes happen in your environment.

How to upgrade Elastic App Search

We highly recommend that all App Search users keep their deployments up to date with the latest available version to have access to new features, security updates, and performance improvements. This guide is designed to help customers through the upgrade process, to minimize the impact of an upgrade on production environments, and to ensure data safety during an upgrade. Finally, the guide helps App Search users troubleshoot any issues that may occur during an upgrade.

How Logz Helps Snyk with Open Source Security

Snyk is a developer-centric company whose raison d’être is to identify and patch vulnerabilities in open source security software. With about 50 engineers, Snyk VP Engineering Anton Drukh wants to maintain flexibility in how the team operates. The best way to ensure that is to give them as much insight into their own work as possible, and hence options. They also look at the state of open source security across the industry.

How to get the most out of your ELB logs

Amazon ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) allows you to make your applications highly available by using health checks and intelligently distributing traffic across a number of instances. It distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. You might have heard the terms, CLB, ALB, and NLB. All of them are types of load balancers under the ELB umbrella.

Migrating from Splunk to the Elastic Stack: Data migration

When Splunk was first released almost 20 years ago, it helped many organizations realize the power of logs to gain business insights with pricing based on the volume of data ingested per day. Over the last two decades, the volume, variety, and velocity of data generated by systems and users have grown exponentially. The demands of business and operations have quickly moved beyond compliance and basic reporting.

Cyclical Statistical Forecasts and Anomalies - Part III

Remember when you wanted great alerts, so you read our past two blogs about cyclical statistical forecasts and anomalies? Hopefully, the techniques in those blogs gave you some great results. Here we’re going to show you another way of finding anomalies in your data using a slightly different technique.

Quantitative Finance with Splunk: 'Who Correlated My Asset'

Over the past 24 months or so, I have been studying investing/trading while also working to become more proficient with Splunk. I like to combine activities and gain momentum, so I decided stock market and economic data would be the perfect way to dig deeper into Splunk and hopefully improve my investing/trading. In the beginning, I only looked at it as a way to learn more about Splunk while using data that was interesting to me.

Bringing Data to Home Security With Arlo

How would you like to be in touch with what’s happening at your doorstep at all times — whether it’s a package delivery, or your loved ones arriving home — no matter where you are? Now think about the folks at Arlo, a leading home automation company, who deliver on this promise for 3.4 million homes in over 100 countries. We hear from Suma about how she uses Arlo to get notified as soon as her kids arrive home from school.