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What's New in Logz.io - September 2019

We hope you guys managed to rest over the summer because we sure didn’t. Our engineering team has been working hard on developing new features and enhancements, some of which may have flown under your radar. To help you catch up, here’s a short recap of the latest and greatest from Logz.io with relevant referrals to read up more about the different items.

Avoiding death by external side effects - a tale of Kafka Streams

At Coralogix, we strive to ensure that our customers get a stable, real-time service at scale. As part of this commitment, we are constantly improving our data ingestion pipeline resiliency and performance. Coralogix ingests messages at extremely high rates — up to tens of billions of messages per day. Every one of these records needs to go through our entire pipeline at near real-time rates: validation, parsing, classification, and ingestion to Elasticsearch.

Archiving Log Files: Feature Guide for File Storage and Archiving

Every organization that handles large volumes of data should implement an archiving system to separate active from inactive data, including log files. With recent changes in data laws in the EU and the growing needs for log archiving, finding a quality file storage and archiving solution is more important than ever. We will discuss the reasons for archiving data and show you how to successfully store logs and use the Archive feature in Graylog Enterprise.

The Power of Audit Logs

If you’re a LogicMonitor customer, the platform’s Audit Logs may seem like a rudimentary means to track user actions, but they can actually be a powerful tool for troubleshooting and getting historical data within your portal. For instance, let’s say you notice that the alerting for a particular device group has been unexpectedly disabled.

Introducing Scheduled Reporting

We’re happy to announce the release of Logz.io Reports — an easy way to set up scheduled reporting for both operational and security use cases. Kibana dashboards provide you with a window into your environment, visualizing the different signals being tracked in a beautiful mix of graphs, charts, and maps. Often used in times of crisis and as the starting point for an investigation, dashboards can also be useful as a static reporting tool for multiple use cases.

Objectives-Driven Observability

Today I wanted to write about something that’s been on my mind for the last few months. The industry spends quite a bit of time talking about observability these days and something’s been, somewhat vaguely, bothering me about it. So about a week or so ago, I spent some time figuring out what was bothering me and had some insights I would like to share.

A Basic Guide To Elasticsearch Aggregations

Elasticsearch Aggregations provide you with the ability to group and perform calculations and statistics (such as sums and averages) on your data by using a simple search query. An aggregation can be viewed as a working unit that builds analytical information across a set of documents. Using aggregations, you can extract the data you want by running the GET method in Kibana UI’s Dev Tools. You can also use CURL or APIs in your code.

Challenges in Monitoring Hybrid Clouds

As discussed in our blog post the Rise of the Hybrid Cloud the dramatic growth of hybrid infrastructures is being driven by benefits such as enhanced flexibility, cost optimization opportunities, and support for the agile DevOps culture. But hybrid clouds also come with their challenges, such as determining how to consistently apply security and compliance processes and how to avoid performance issues resulting from the differences between private and public cloud SLAs.