These are my links for June 25th through October 1st:
- 13 Ways to Tail a Log File on Windows & Linux | Stackify – It turns out there are a bunch of people on stackoverflow looking for ways to tail a log file but there don’t appear to be many lists of all the different helpful tools to do this. Well I LOVE lists. Check out some tools I found that make tailing a log file a walk in the park:
- What’s New in Splunk 6 – Real-Time Business Data | Splunk – Splunk Enterprise is the leading platform for real-time operational intelligence. It's the easy, fast and secure way to search, analyze and visualize the massive streams of machine data generated by your IT systems and technology infrastructure—physical, virtual and in the cloud.
Splunk Enterprise 6 is our latest release and delivers:
Powerful analytics for everyone—at amazing speeds
Completely redesigned user experience
Richer developer environment to easily extend the platform - Announcing the Release of Splunk Enterprise 6 | Splunk Blogs – Splunk Enterprise 6 introduces new analytics features to open up machine data analytics to literally anyone in your organization. The new Pivot interface allows business or non-technical users to easily manipulate, interact and visualize machine data without using the search language, easily allowing anyone to now use Splunk Enterprise as their analytics playground. Joris Vuffray, from Swisslos, called it “game changing”— a testament to the extensive beta program and the value customers are seeing.
- Sumo Logic’s Automatic Anomaly Data Detection – Learning, Big Data, and Cloud | SiliconANGLE – Sumo Logic’s Anomaly Detection service gives customers a number of capabilities including:
Identify imminent security threats
Detect anomalies across the entire application and operations infrastructure
Provide user feedback to turn anomalies into known events and classify events with the appropriate severity levels
Detect any future events that match the patterns associated with past anomalies
Visually identify and track anomalies, corresponding events and underlying log patterns through an Anomaly Dashboard
Use LogReduce to rapidly investigate and identify the root cause of these events
Set alerts for users whenever an important event appears
Scale anomaly detection to the scope of users’ IT infrastructure - Mosh: the mobile shell – mobile shell)
Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.
Mosh is a replacement for SSH. It's more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi, cellular, and long-distance links.
- Logentries snags $10M to build out and market its Splunk competitor — Tech News and Analysis – Logentries, a Boston-based log monitoring and management company with roots in Dublin, Ireland, now has $10 million in Series A funding to staff up and start marketing its service for real. It already claims it’s processing 28 billion log events daily from 1,000 paying customers — including The Financial Times, Hailo, Engine Yard and Airbrake in 100 countries.
- VictorOps – VictorOps is the world’s first collaborative platform designed especially for DevOps teams that combines the power of people and data to solve IT problems as they arise.
By seamlessly orchestrating team situational awareness, incident creation, escalation, notification and remediation, the VictorOps platform increases group communication and decreases problem-solving time.
- Big Data Predictive Analytics with Enterprise R – Revolution Analytics –
- Structured Logging in Python — structlog documentation – structlog makes structured logging in Python easy by augmenting your existing logger. It allows you to split your log entries up into key/value pairs and build them incrementally without annoying boilerplate code.
- Logstash 1.2.0 (Upgrade notes included) – This week Logstash 1.2.0 has been released with exciting new features. Logstash is (from the Website): "[…] a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). […]"
The full Changelog can be found on Github, here is a short list with some more details:
- Loggly raises $10.5 million in hot machine data space – San Francisco Business Times – Loggly, a provider of machine data collection and analysis tools, has secured $10.5 million from Cisco Systems, Data Collective Venture Capital, and prior investors Trinity Ventures, True Ventures and Matrix Partners.
The latest round brings to $20.9 million the total raised by San Francisco-based Loggly since the 23 person company was founded in 2009.
- Stratalux releases a Logstash based log management service, available for immediate implementation on AWS Marketplace – tratalux, a leading provider of managed cloud services has released a Logstash based open-source IT log management solution for companies who want the benefits of a centralized logging solution without the enterprise software price. Logstash, an open-source alternative to more costly enterprise IT logging solutions, provides a centralized and scalable repository for all of your system and application logs, providing customers a unique and holistic view into their infrastructures. Stratalux's Logstash AWS Marketplace AMI has been configured with all the basic components necessary for a comprehensive working solution. Included in this AMI are the Logstash server, Kibana web interface, ElasticSearch storage and Redis data structure server. Simply launch Stratalux’ Logstash AMI with the click of a few buttons and install and point your Logstash agents to this AMI to begin searching through your logs. Additionally the creation of customized dashboards will provide new insights into your inf
- Loggly.com : Responsive Log Management Behind the Screens | Loggly.com : Responsive Log Management – Today we announced the next generation of Loggly. We on the Software Infrastructure are really excited now that our code is publically ingesting, analysing, and indexing customer log data. So what did we use to build our new system? I thought it might be fun to share some high-level details. I’ll discuss each of these in more detail in future blog posts, but let’s stand back and see what’s going on.
- CoreOS – Minimal
Linux kernel + systemd. That's about it. CoreOS has just enough bits to run containers, but does not ship a package manager itself. In fact, the root partition is completely read-only, to guarantee consistency and make updates reliable.
- Splunk Inc (SPLK): Splunk runs PM, analysts weigh in – Seeking Alpha – Splunk runs PM, analysts weigh in
Splunk (SPLK) shares are up 9.9% PM after the company delivered a beat and raise Q2.
FBR upgraded Splunk to Outperform from Perform and hiked the PT to $61 from $48. "We believe the potential 'game changer' in the Splunk story is around early signs of a step-up in enterprise deals, which could add major fuel to the company's growth engine."
Needham raised its PT to $55 from $50 and maintained a Buy rating. Scott Zeller believes Splunk has the potential to maintain its torrid growth as existing customers (70% of license bookings) get "deeper" into Splunk, the "non-IT" side of the business expands, and the company moves into the "large … non-US opportunity for Big Data."
Wedbush raised its PT to $60 from $58 and kept an Outperform rating. Steve Koenig: "[C]onsensus revenue estimates are much too conservative for this year and next, as they anchor on cautious management guidance." - Welcome Jordan & Logstash | Blog | Elasticsearch – Today is a defining day in the history of our company: We are proud to announce that Jordan Sissel, the creator of Logstash and a good friend, is joining Elasticsearch! This means that Elasticsearch, the company, now provides a fully open source product stack for logging and events management: Logstash for log processing, Elasticsearch as the real time analytics and search engine, and Kibana (created by Rashid Khan) as the visual front end.
Neither Jordan nor Logstash really need an introduction, but I’d like to give you an idea about why this is amazing news for so many Elasticsearch and Logstash users.
- Centralized Log Archiving with Logstash » Linux Magazine –
- Splunk Storm – Machine Data Processing in the Cloud | Architects Zone –
- Syslog-NG RepoView: “Fedora EPEL 6 – x86_64” –
- zlogd –
- Introducing Zlogd – An open source universal logging agent –