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The latest News and Information on Log Management, Log Analytics and related technologies.

Introducing Agent v2 beta for Kubernetes

In the olden days, we used to have to get logs by putting our agent on one machine at a time, like hitching a horse to a horse-drawn carriage. But now, we’ve got Kubernetes. It’s like a horse factory, and we’ve got more horses than we know what to do with. In this wild west of containerization, we could quickly end up underneath more logs than our old-timey agent could keep track of! But now there’s a new sheriff in town.

S3 Bucket Lambda Function

AWS has a lot of services, and they all generate logs. A lot of logs. We’ve worked hard to make sure you can capture logs from every source and service on AWS, and today we’re happy to announce the final piece of our AWS logging puzzle: LogDNA’s S3 Collector integration. It’s an easy-to-use Lambda function that lets you ingest any AWS logs that get dumped to S3 – like logs from CloudFront and ELB.

DevOps Incident Management: A Guide With Best Practices

This is the one post I hope you’ll never need. However, should you ever need it, this is your one-stop shop for understanding how to proceed with DevOps incident management. Have you just been attacked? Did the commit go wrong? A CI pipeline went haywire? Don’t worry. I got you.

The Data-to-Everything Platform: What It Is, What It Means

As a company leader, what value are you extracting from your business and IT? What about from security data lakes and processes? Are you able to drive speed for your business because of real-time, advanced analytic capabilities? Successful companies are making technology architecture their business architecture—aligning stakeholders, processes, data, and analytics in an integrated fashion to deliver faster, data-driven decisions that are more accurate than ever before.

Announcing the latest version of Security Monitoring for Splunk App

It’s been a while since I have had the pleasure of announcing a new version of Security Monitoring (September 2018), but today I am doing just that. There is nothing better to inspire spending your evenings coding and playing with Splunk than your partner watching shows that just don’t interest you! For my UK friends, yes ‘Love Island’ is that show and for my more international friends "look it up!". So, what updates did I bring?

Manufacturing 2020: Time to Reinvent After a Golden Decade

Generally, 2009 to 2019 were 10 golden years for manufacturers worldwide. After the swift recovery from the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09, many manufacturers have been enjoying double-digit order intake growth, increasing revenues and profits for over a decade. German manufacturers in particular benefitted from an unprecedented peak in 2018. Volkswagen delivered a record-high number of 11 million cars and grew its revenues to 236 billion euros, the highest revenue ever in its long history.

Bi-directional replication with Elasticsearch cross-cluster replication (CCR)

Elasticsearch cross-cluster replication (CCR) was released as a beta feature in Elasticsearch 6.5, and as a Generally Available (GA) feature in Elasticsearch 6.7. CCR allows multiple indices to be replicated to one or more Elasticsearch clusters. Replicating indices to additional Elasticsearch clusters solves several use cases, including high availability (HA) across datacenters, disaster recovery (DR), and CDN-like architectures to co-locate data closer to application servers (and users).

Elastic SIEM for home and small business: Beats on Mac

Hey, there. This is part six of the Elastic SIEM for home and small business blog series. If you haven’t read the first, second, and third blogs, you may want to before going any further. In the Getting started blog, we created our Elasticsearch Service deployment and started collecting data from one of our computers using Winlogbeat. In the Securing cluster access blog, we secured access to our cluster by restricting privileges for users and Beats.