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Streamlined Kubernetes Cluster Agent

Sematext provides a single pane of glass and machine learning powered alerts for logs, metrics, traces and digital user experience data. The new Sematext agent is fully Docker Engine and Kubernetes-aware. (Re)written in Go, it has a minimal memory and CPU footprint. It also collects Kubernetes metrics in the most optimal fashion possible.

Why European Users Are Leveraging Machine Data for Security and Customer Experience

To gain a better understanding of the adoption and usage of machine data in Europe, Sumo Logic commissioned 451 Research to survey 250 executives across the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany, and to compare this data with a previous survey of U.S. respondents that were asked the same questions. The research set out to answer a number of questions, including: Is machine data in fact an important source of fuel in the analytics economy?

Cutting-Edge Observability Tools into a Single Platform

Sematext provides a single pane of glass and machine learning powered alerts for logs, metrics, traces and user experience data. Sematext Cloud provides advanced monitoring, logging and tracing for all Docker platforms such as Docker EE, Kubernetes, GKE, AWS ECS, and IBM Cloud. Sematext’s new monitoring agent leverages the powerful eBPF Linux kernel observability functionality and uses the Kubernetes API to enrich the container and cluster level metrics.

The New Version of Logagent Enriches Container Logs with Metadata and GeoIP

Logagent is a modern, open-source, light-weight data shipper with out of the box and extensible log parsing, on-disk buffering, secure transport and bulk indexing to Elasticsearch and Sematext Cloud. Its low memory footprint and low CPU overhead make it suitable for deploying on edge nodes and devices, while its ability to parse and structure logs makes it a great Logstash alternative.

GDPR Log Management - Compliant Logging Best Practices

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was authored in 2016 and became applicable on May 25th of 2018. You can read the regulation in its entirety in this PDF. If you have legal questions about GDPR and how it applies to your organization, you should seek the advice of a professional who is familiar with the regulation.

Top Use Cases for Log Analysis

Investing in a log analysis tool provides many benefits: it saves time needed to detect and troubleshoot a problem, reduces churn by providing a better user experience, and improves system security. There is a wide scope of use cases for log analysis - from tackling security and performance issues head-on to enhancing the quality of your services. What are some of the most common use cases for log file analysis?

LogDNA Announces New Log Management Capabilities on IBM Cloud

LogDNA today announced a new offering that enables developers to troubleshoot coding bugs and quickly fix development errors in applications, potentially saving businesses millions of dollars in development hours, downtime and associated revenue loss. IBM Log Analysis with LogDNA integrates LogDNA services to allow developers to aggregate all their log data across applications in the IBM Cloud.

What's New in Elastic Stack 6.5

Elastic Stack 6.5 is out! Every new version of the Elastic Stack is packed with new features and updates, and as always, I’m happy to dive a bit deeper into the new release to provide our readers with a wrap up of what’s new. Interestingly enough, and as reflected in the announcements surrounding this release, this release is all about Kibana. That’s not to say the other components in the stack were left out – to the contrary, and I will cover them all, don’t you worry.