AWS, DevOps

Why Should You Use Splunk for Log Analysis ?

Everyone knows that logs play an important role in the IT industry. Logs are used for various purposes such as IT operations, system and application monitoring, business analytics, security and compliance and much more. Having a centralized logging system makes life easy for developers especially when there is a need to troubleshoot...

by Mohit Kumar
Tag: centralized logs
05-Jan-2017

Technology

Collecting Tomcat logs using Fluentd and Elasticsearch

In our previous blog, we have covered the basics of fluentd, the lifecycle of fluentd events and the primary directives involved. In this blog, we'll configure fluentd to dump tomcat logs to Elasticsearch. We'll also talk about filter directive/plugin and how to configure it to add hostname field in the event stream. Fluentd...

by Arun Dhyani
Tag: centralized logs
05-Oct-2016

AWS

LOG ROTATION USING LINUX COMMAND-LINE UTILITY LOGROTATE

Let us consider a scenario when all the service and custom logs of your ubuntu server gets backed up on S3 on a daily basis after compressing them and the allocated space is freed without using any third party software. We can achieve this task by the use of logrotate utility provided by the ubuntu server. Log rotation means the...

by Tarun Saxena
Tag: centralized logs
15-Jun-2015

AWS

Autoscaling Environment Logs Collection using LogEntries

LogEntries Managing log data across large autoscaling environments can be a time-consuming and expensive job. Logentries has designed a scalable service that dynamically supports autoscaling environment as log volumes expand and change dynamically. By centralizing all logs across distributed instances into one secure location, we can...

by Ankit Giri
Tag: centralized logs
24-May-2015