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Using the Prune Filter in Logstash

Logstash has a number of helpful plugins. We’ve covered the mutate plugin in great detail here, as well as Logstash grok, but it was time to go over some of the others. Here, the Logstash Prune Filter will get its due attention. Its existence owes to the need to remove fields according to select blacklists or whitelists of field names and their associated values. Put more curtly, it prunes the excess branches (fields) in your garden (your data).

ELK Stack: 5 Common ELK Issues and How to Fix Them

Running an ELK stack provides unrivaled benefits for your organization, however, ELK issues will inevitably crop up. ELK is scalable, and largely agnostic of internal infrastructure, making it a great asset for SMEs and enterprises. However, successfully deploying and running an ELK stack is not without its difficulties. In order to keep your ELK stack running at optimum performance, you need to familiarize yourself with some of the most common ELK issues.

Troubleshooting your apps with Cloud Logging just got a lot easier

In Cloud Logging, we understand that logging is a critical part of what it takes for you to operate reliable applications and infrastructure on Google Cloud. We’ve added new features to help you more easily store, find and control your logs. Today, we’re announcing a new default logging experience: Logs Explorer. Previously known as Logs Viewer Preview, Logs Explorer provides new tools for you to better understand and analyze your logs during the troubleshooting process.

Introducing Puppet Enterprise tasks and workflows in Puppet Remediate

Today we are pleased to announce the release of Puppet Remediate 1.4. This release brings together the dynamic vulnerability data and prioritization capabilities in Puppet Remediate with Puppet Enterprise’s industry-leading automation to help organizations improve their security posture and reduce the risk of security incidents.

Speed Up Your Maven Builds With Jfrog Artifactory

The code we develop ends up being packaged into artifacts that are consumed as dependencies during the development of other software components. JFrog offers an end-to-end Maven repository solution to resolve complex challenges that come with consuming and developing all these artifacts. There are many reasons why you may want to use JFrog Artifactory as your Maven repository. As a Maven repo, Artifactory is both a source for artifacts needed for Maven builds and a target to deploy artifacts generated in the build process.