logit.io

Manchester, UK
2013
  |  By David Benson
Java is a flexible and commonly used programming language known for its platform independence, object-oriented design, and robustness. It was originally developed by Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle Corporation) in the mid-1990s and soon gained popularity due to its "Write Once, Run Anywhere" (WORA) principle, allowing developers to write code that can operate on any device or platform with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
  |  By David Benson
The Azure Cloud platform processes an extensive variety of data including Eventhub Diagnostic Logs, Kubernetes Metrics, SQL Logs, Activity Logs, Container Activity Logs, and Azure Metrics. Depending on the requirements of your organization these logs offer various levels of importance and priority. But it’s more than likely that you will be monitoring a large variety of these logs.
  |  By David Benson
RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and Redis are some of the most popular microservices message brokers on the market. However, while they’re all the same type of tool, they each offer different features that make them better adapted for specific use cases. To further understand this, in this article, we will outline the main similarities and differences between these tools and highlight which is the best tool for various use cases.
  |  By David Benson
IIS (Internet Information Services) is a web server developed by Microsft, shipped as a part of the Windows Server services. It’s used to host and manage web applications and services. IIS is a particularly robust web server solution that is tightly integrated with the Windows operating system, making it a natural choice for organizations that rely on other Microsoft products.
  |  By David Benson
OpenSearch allows you to store a sizeable amount of data, commonly logs, metrics, and documents. You access useful data within OpenSearch by querying to get specific information, deep analysis, and insights for decision-making. With OpenSearch, you can perform complex searches by using natural language, Boolean operators, and filters to pinpoint relevant information efficiently.
  |  By David Benson
Docker is an open-source container service provider, designed to help developers build, run, and share container applications. Users building and running these container applications need to conduct effective debugging and monitoring practices and for this, they have turned to Docker logging. To understand the importance of this, the latest edition of our how-to guide series surrounds Docker.
  |  By David Benson
When monitoring your logs metrics and traces it’s crucial that you can detect issues early to ensure the uptime of applications, alleviate bottlenecks, and enhance the performance of your systems. If you’re an experienced developer or IT professional this is a straightforward task when you’re viewing the data in front of you. However, when you aren’t viewing your data, it's just as important to guarantee that your systems are functioning optimally. This is achieved through alerts.
  |  By David Benson
Log forwarding can be seen as the first step towards centralized log management. With centralized log management, your organization can gain from enhanced visibility, monitoring, and analysis capabilities, making it a coveted practice for numerous organizations. Log forwarding is crucial for maintaining robust IT security and operational efficiency, allowing organizations to manage and analyze logs from multiple systems in a centralized, scalable manner.
  |  By David Benson
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL is a powerful open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) and is one of the most popular relational databases with over 1.5 billion users. It’s renowned for its reliability, robustness, and comprehensive capabilities. It is capable of managing a broad variety of workloads, from small single-machine applications to large-scale enterprise databases.
  |  By David Benson
Monitoring Windows event and activity Logs is one of the most important aspects of Windows log management. Windows Event Logs contain all the crucial information about system health, security events, application and errors which helps in gaining insight into your operating system.

Logit is an ISO 27001 certified centralised logging and metrics management company. We solve complex problems for many FTSE 100, Fortune 500 and other fast-growing clients alike. Our platform delivers you with a fully customised log and metrics solution based on Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana which is scalable, secure and compliant.

Logit also provides you with a high level view of the health and performance of applications and services across the organisation. Rationalise applications and confidently migrate to multi-cloud and hybrid cloud faster, with full support for AWS, Azure, GCP and on-premise.

Logit is a cloud native solution that scales on demand, allowing you to rapidly provision as many production-ready ELK stacks as required. All your stacks are isolated and can be individually managed, with the flexibility of defining teams and roles per stack. Each Logit ELK stack has its own dedicated resources, featuring highly available Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and more.