23 Jan 2015
When doing centralized logging, e.g. using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana or Graylog2 you have several options available for your Java application. You can either write your standard application logs and parse those using Logstash, either consumed directly or shipped to another machine using something like logstash-forwarder. Alternatively you can write in a more appropriate format like JSON directly so the processing step doesn't need that much work for parsing your messages. As a third option is to write to a different data store directly which acts as a buffer for your log messages. In this post we are looking at how we can configure Logback in a Spring Boot application to write the log messages to Redis directly.
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12 Dec 2014
In the last post in this series we have seen how we can use Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana for doing logfile analytics. This week we will look at the general capabilities for doing analytics on any data using Elasticsearch and Kibana.
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19 Sep 2014
In the last posts we have seen some of the properties of using Elasticsearch as a document store, for searching text content and geospatial search. In this post we will look at how it can be used to index and store log files, a very useful application that can help developers and operations in maintaining applications.
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29 Aug 2014
In the previous posts we have seen that Elasticsearch can be used to store documents in JSON format and distribute the data across multiple nodes as shards and replicas. Lucene, the underlying library, provides the implementation of the inverted index that can be used to search the documents. Analyzing is a crucial step for building a good search application.
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13 Aug 2014
More than half a year ago I wrote a post on my first years as a freelancer. While writing the post I noticed that there are quite some resources I would like to recommend which I deferred to another post that never was written. Last weekend at SoCraTes we had a very productive session on freelancing. We talked about different aspects from getting started, kinds of and reasons for freelancing to handling your sales pipeline.
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