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IT Ops
How to Integrate Go / GoLang with Logentries
Would you like to send logs from your Go program code into your Logentries
account?Thanks to the help of Gal Ben-Haim’s, bsphere Golang library for log
entries [https://github.com/bsphere/le_go], Go coders can be sending their logs
to Logentries in no time at all. Benefits of using this Go Lang library and
implementing with your Logentries account include:
* Remote viewing and analysis of your Go program log events
* All your logs are sent to one location, and viewed through an easy to use
3 min
IT Ops
Real-time Alerting on Anomaly and Inactivity Made Simple.
“a·nom·a·ly”
1. Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
When someone is looking to be alerted when something unexpected happens within
their environment they are usually referring to anomaly detection. But the
problem is that it’s hard to turn a complex problem (i.e. looking for something
when you are not sure what it is) into an easy to use solution.
The thing about anomaly detection is that you don’t know how the issue will
present itself so predicting the patte
6 min
IT Ops
An APM Solution Divided Cannot Stand
This post originally appeared onthe Smart Bear blog
[http://blog.smartbear.com/apm/an-apm-solution-divided-cannot-stand/]. To read
more content like this, subscribe to the Software Quality Matters Blog
[http://blog.smartbear.com/subscribe/].
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Frustrations with lack of tool unification might just lead to revolution in the
APM space…
Application Performance Management (APM) is a broad concept, and many
technologies fall under its umb
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IT Ops
Evolve, Don't Revolve
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Logs have been around for a while, not quite as long as the wheel, but not far
off. Here at Logentries, we have the mantra of evolve don’t revolve (as in don’t
sit around spinning your wheels getting nowhere). We are taking this concept
and looking to evolve the way you work with and think about your log data.
Gone are the old days, where you only used logs to find exceptions. A new day
has dawned, and the future is here, the future is Logentries (
4 min
IT Ops
JSON logging in Apache and Nginx with Logentries
I’m often asked on calls with our customers what is the preferred format for log
data being sent to Logentries
[https://logentries.com/centralize-log-data-automatically/?le_trial=json_logging_in_apache_and_nginx-logentries_blog-post_cta-create_trial&utm_campaign=json_logging_in_apache_and_nginx&utm_source=logentries_blog&utm_medium=post_cta&utm_content=create_trial]
. While we pride ourselves on being the Log Management
[https://logentries.com/doc/log-management/] tool that is easiest to setup a
4 min
IT Ops
How D3 can help you build effective data visualizations
Data Visualization is the method of consolidating data into one collective,
illustrative graphic. Traditionally, data visualization has been used for
quantitative work, but ways to represent qualitative work have been shown to be
equally powerful. The main goal of data visualization, is to communicate
information clearly and effectively through graphical means. That doesn’t mean
that it needs to look boring to be functional or extremely sophisticated to look
beautiful. In order to achieve a bala
5 min
IT Ops
Smart Continuous Delivery Using Automated Testing
This post is building on a recent post highlighting recommendations on how to
simplify your unit testing by using the right set of tools (Smart Integration
Testing with Dropwizard, Flyway and Retrofit
[/2014/06/smart-integration-testing/]).
As a company like Logentries [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logentries]rapidly
grows, and the number of product features increases, an important question
arises around maintaining the highest level quality and user experience. That
level is usually where the
2 min
IT Ops
4 Ways to Use Centralized Log Management for Improved Production Monitoring
Is your team focused on preventing outages and minimizing downtime in
production?
Time to resolution is one of the most important operational KPIs for Ops teams,
becauseany time that your application is down, is too long for your users.
Whether it’s minutes, hours, or (in a worst case-scenario) days, any time that
your systems are down, your business is losing money; and more importantly,
customer trust and satisfaction. This creates additional pressure on your team
and hurts employee morale. By
3 min
IT Ops
Digging Deeper on AWS: Real-time Alerting for Windows Security Events
After many conversations with our AWS customers and the AWS CloudTrail team, we
recently released our AWS CloudTrail integration
[https://logentries.com/logentries-and-aws-log-data-analysis/] to automatically
support the most important log events our customers wanted to be monitoring
across their AWS environments. We found that some of the most common need for
notifications included:
* Starting, stopping, terminating, rebooting instances
* Creating or deletingsecuritygroups
* Creating and d
2 min
IT Ops
Revisiting the Past with Logentries and Syslog
When I was younger I was always amazed by my grandfather. He would revel me
in stories about how, when growing up, not only did he not have a car or
television, but he had to walk up hill “both ways” to get to school – without
shoes! And here I am today more or less saying the same thing about the late
70’s and early 80’s when client-server changeover that occurred during that time
and we all had servers sitting in our closets. Setting up syslog
[https://logentries.com/doc/about-syslog/] back in
2 min
IT Ops
AWS CloudWatch Logs - Making Innovation Easier and Cheaper
Last week AWS made an exciting announcement at their NYC Summit, which I believe
is a big step in helping to reduce the cost of log management in the cloud
[https://logentries.com/doc/log-management/] for end users and vendors alike –
good news all around!
What was announced?
Amazon announced ‘CloudWatch Logs’ which essentially allows you to send log data
from your EC2 instances into CloudWatch for storage and some rudimentary
analysis.
How does it work?
CloudWatch logs works by collecting y
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Logentries
Logs to Metrics to JSON to Geckoboard
The world of log management [https://logentries.com/doc/log-management/] and
application performance monitoring [/2014/04/apm-is-not-enough/]are evolving and
there is no longer a big distinction between the two.
Up to even a year ago, many people in IT viewed logs as simply a means of
identifying and tracking issues once they have occurred within their system. It
was rare that people were using their logs for more than basic application event
tracking and watching for exceptions.
But over the
3 min
IT Ops
TCP or UDP for Logging – Which One to Use?
When sending data over the Internet, we want to be sure that data has arrived
safely and is delivered in a reliable manner. Assuming that our hardware and
operating systems do the job well, we can use transport protocol on the
application level to achieve that goal. In theOSI
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model] model the two most populartransport
protocols [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_layer] areTCP
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol] andUDP
[http://en.wik
2 min
IT Ops
Using Log Analysis to Find the .18%
Even the most non-technical audiences realize the business value in analyzing
their log data. DevOps professionals are constantly being asked to monitor their
application performance, and often rely on log data for troubleshooting,
diagnostics and application systems monitoring. The challenge is that the amount
of log data generated can be completely overwhelming.
Why log analysis is so difficult?
In one word — volume. Even relatively small applications, can generate millions,
or billions of lo
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Logentries
How to Get Full Visibility of CloudTrail, CloudWatch & System Logs
At re:Invent last year
[/2013/11/reinvent-keynote-overview-amazon-cloudtrail-appstream-and-workspaces-announced/]
AWS launched CloudTrail [http://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/], which is
essentially a “trail” of all activity in your AWS Cloud environment… the clue is
in the name ;). CloudTrail has been widely accepted as a great addition to the
AWS toolset as it is useful for numerous use cases including security analysis,
troubleshooting, tracking of AWS resource usage, and more.
While CloudTrai