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

Shipping Office 365 audit logs to Graylog with O365beat

O365beat is an exceptionally useful open-source log shipping tool created by counteractive. With a few simple tweaks, it can be used to fetch Office 365 audit logs from the Office 365 Management Activity API and forward them to Graylog. The best part of this tool is that it leverages all the flexibility and power of the beats platforms such as libbeat.

Super-Size Your Log Searches

At SolarWinds® Papertrail™, we know that when you’re combing through lines and lines of long event messages, every pixel matters. That’s why in the new Papertrail event viewer, we introduced the ability to hide the application chrome. Hiding the application chrome, or ‘presentation mode,’ removes the header and navigation menus and maximizes your screen real estate. So far the feedback on this new option has been great.

IBM Expands IBM Cloud Paks Offering with LogDNA

IBM recently announced an expanded Cloud Paks offering with LogDNA. With this offering, developers and engineering teams can easily aggregate and search huge volumes of data from any source to gain real-time insights on their applications. LogDNA is now offered by IBM and deployable on-premise or multi-cloud with all IBM Cloud Paks including Cloud Pak for Applications, Cloud Pak for Data, Cloud Pak for Integration, Cloud Pak for Multi-cloud Management, and Cloud Pak for Automation.

A Breakdown of Language Analyzers for Elasticsearch

Any search engine needs to be be able to parse language. As the field of natural language processing (NLP) has grown, specific text analysis has been applied to stop words and tokenizing (or marking) them by part of speech. In Elasticsearch (and elsewhere), the most attention has been paid to English, although the ELK stack has built-in support for 34 languages as of this writing.

Loki Reaches GA with v1.0.0 Release

Today is an exciting day for Loki, as we have decided it’s time for Loki to graduate out of beta and into a 1.0.0 GA release! It’s been just about a year since we announced Loki at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Seattle, and in that time over 137 contributors have made more than 1,000 contributions. Here’s a look at where the project is today.

A deep dive into Elasticsearch authentication realms

This is a technical deep dive into the authentication process — a necessary first step before addressing the authorization decisions that are at the core of Elasticsearch security. The following will be a very detailed explanation of the inner workings of a key part of the authentication process: realms. If you'd prefer to start with a broader view of authentication (and authorization) in Elasticsearch, you may want to check out Demystifying authentication and authorization in Elasticsearch.

Ingest geospatial data into Elasticsearch with GDAL

​Have you used Elastic Maps in Kibana yet? I am very excited about multiple layer support. Heat maps, vector layers from the Elastic Maps Service, and even individual documents all in the same interface! What a fantastic way to analyze and visualize your data. But what about geospatial data that’s not in Elasticsearch? Maybe you want to overlay a shapefile of regional sales territories with sales aggregations.

Application Logs: What They Are and How to Use Them

Within software development, application logging plays an important role. As much as we’d like our software to be perfect, issues will always arise within a production environment. When they do, a good logging strategy is crucial. But what is application logging? How should you be using application logs? Where can you find them? And what does all this mean for your own logging strategy? We’ll take a look at each of these questions in this post.