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heartbeat elk stack

Monitor Service Uptime with Heartbeat and the ELK Stack

Heartbeat was introduced in Elastic Stack 5.0 in October and is meant for “uptime monitoring.” Here's how...

Apr 17th, 2017 | Daniel Berman
5 mins
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Musings in YAML – Tips for Configuring Your Beats

There are no lessons teaching YAML syntax. When using Beats shippers, we learn by error. Here are...

Apr 10th, 2017 | Daniel Berman
3 mins
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Docker Logging with the ELK Stack – Part Two

The other benefits of Docker containers make it hard to centralize their logs for analysis. Here's the...

Apr 5th, 2017 | Daniel Berman
6 mins
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How to Install the ELK Stack on Google Cloud Platform

While still lagging far behind Amazon Web Services, GCP is becoming more and more popular. Here's how...

Apr 3rd, 2017 | PJ Hagerty
4 mins
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AWS ELB Log Analysis with the ELK Stack

Elastic Load Balancers allow AWS users to distribute traffic across EC2 instances. You can use ELK to...

Mar 28th, 2017 | Daniel Berman
5 mins

Which Monitoring Plugins Work with Elasticsearch 5?

Which Elasticsearch monitoring plugins are compatible with version 5? We've got a full list of what still...

Mar 23rd, 2017 | Daniel Berman
1 min
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Azure vs. AWS RDS: Which Service Is Right for Your Cloud Database Requirements?

There are many differences between the DBaaS offerings on the market. Here, we explore the solutions of...

Mar 21st, 2017 | Asaf Yigal
8 mins

16 Free and Open Source Business Intelligence Tools

Companies need to analyze all of the data that they collect -- and that is where BI...

Mar 20th, 2017 | Samuel Scott
5 mins
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Docker Logging with the ELK Stack – Part One

The transiency, distribution, and isolation of Docker containers make it hard to centralize all of their logs...

Mar 15th, 2017 | Daniel Berman
8 mins
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Prometheus Monitoring with Grafana

By adding Grafana to Prometheus as a visualization layer, you can easily set up a monitoring stack...

Mar 14th, 2017 | Daniel Berman
4 mins
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Real-Time Analytics: Streaming Big Data for Business Intelligence

What does the increasing amount of machine data in the world mean for the future of historical...

Mar 13th, 2017 | Samuel Scott
8 mins
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VPC Flow Log Analysis with the ELK Stack

Logs in CloudWatch can be searched, but there is no easy way to properly visualize and analyze...

Mar 8th, 2017 | Daniel Berman
6 mins