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Choosing a centralized logging and monitoring system

Szymon Warda on March 07, 2017

While I'm working on the next angle on how to speed up calculating 17 billion similarities I started investigating how to get better telemetry from...
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lukaszkuczynski

Just wanted to tell you're touching very interesting and important topic of data visualization. As I am fan of ELK stack solution I won't go deeply into discussions just wanted to notify that basic ELK stack is free, and we are using it extensively in our company in various places. I am also implementing it toward my needs, check my github or blog!
Good job!

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Szymon Warda

Thanks.
Elk is free, but I was looking for some sas solution and for it you have to pay :/
Also see my blog: indexoutofrange.com

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Federico Sörenson

Hi!

I have a question: have you tried instana.com/ ? I was wondering if that makes sense for any kind of architecture, since it looks like really complete set of features.

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Szymon Warda

No, I haven't tried it. btw Their site loads so slow...

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bkc

The link to "I am running on crapp" returns 404

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Szymon Warda

Thanks for noticing. Fixed it.

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Andre Caron

Seems like the 1st link was fixed and now works, but the 2nd still returns a 404.

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Jordan Knight

Why isn't Splunk or graylog part of your comparison? Does not make much sense to exclude marketleaders like splunk

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Jordan Knight

Dp

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Anton Frattaroli

They offer Dynatrace at my workplace, but for me nothing works as easily as something that listens to application error events (ELMAH for asp.net)

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bkc

The link to "I am running on crapp" returns 404

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Olivier Laviale

We replaced Kibana by Graylog in our stack, it's quite good.