The latest News and Information on Log Management, Log Analytics and related technologies.
Logz.io has a comprehensive API that allows you to send and query logs or metrics easily. Now, that process is getting even easier for infrastructure monitoring. Logz.io has added support for the open source grafana API. In other words, you can use the OSS grafana’s integration within Logz.io.
In this lesson, we’ll learn how we can use Elasticsearch Hadoop to process very large amounts of data. For our exercise, we’ll use a simple Apache access log to represent our “big data”. We’ll learn how to write a MapReduce job to ingest the file with Hadoop and index it into Elasticsearch.
Across the technology and IT infrastructure domain, log files are recognized as often time-stamped files that can virtually record all critical information about events occurring within the purview of your IT network, OS, or other software applications. Some log files are humanly interpretable, while others are largely meant for machines to consume.
While all cybersecurity professionals agree that log management is integral for robust proactive and reactive security, managing the enormous amount of data logs can be a challenge. While you might be tempted to collect all logs generated from your systems, software, network devices, and users, this “fear of missing out” on an important notification ultimately leads to so much noise that your security analysts and threat hunters cannot find the most important information.
Today is the last day of ObservabilityCON 2020! We hope you’ve had the chance to catch the talks so far, and will tune in live for today’s sessions. View the full schedule on the event page, and for additional information on viewing, participate in Q&As, and more, check out our quick guide to getting the most out of ObservabilityCON. If you aren’t up-to-date on the presentations so far, here’s a recap of day three of the conference.
Business Intelligence (BI) tools allow businesses to gather, process and analyse large amounts of data so that they are able to make decisions and see opportunities as well as visualise and report on key metrics for Stakeholders. The range of Business Intelligence tools available to use is an ever-expanding list with newcomers to the market appearing every year.
