AWSDevOpsTechnology

Why Use Splunk for Log Analysis? Benefits, Use Cases & Best Practices

Splunk is an enterprise log analytics platform that helps organizations collect, index, search, monitor, and analyze machine-generated data from applications, infrastructure, networks, and cloud environments. It enables DevOps, IT operations, and security teams to troubleshoot issues faster, improve observability, detect threats, and gain actionable insights from logs. Every enterprise generates logs, but few organizations use […]

Mohit Kumar
Mohit Kumar
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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 is a log collector that works on […]

Arun Dhyani
Arun Dhyani
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DevOpsTechnology

Fluentd – The Log Collector

Whenever we talk about Log Analysis which is to create some sense out of the computer generated records, we always need some tools which can first collect these logs from different devices, operating systems or any applications. These tools are generally termed as Log Collectors. There are two popular log collectors – Logstash & Fluentd. […]