How to get the most out of your ELB logs

What is ELB Amazon ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) allows you to make your applications highly available by using health checks and intelligently distributing traffic across a number of instances. It

Amir Raz

Guide: Smarter AWS Traffic Mirroring for Stronger Cloud Security

So, you’ve installed Coralogix’s STA and you would like to start analyzing your traffic and getting valuable insights but you’re not sure that you’re mirroring enough traffic or wondering if

Yuval Khalifa

Using Auditbeat to protect your critical infrastructure

What are Beats Beats are lightweight, purpose-built agents that acquire data and then feed it to Elasticsearch. Beats use the libbeat framework that makes it easy to create customized beats for any

Amir Raz

Terraform Quick Start Tutorial

This Terraform tutorial is an excellent introduction to configuration management tools. Terraform is growing due to it simplifying the management of environments in the cloud. Several cloud services appeared over

Dário Estevão, Rafael Augusto

Ansbile Quick Start Tutorial

This quick start Ansible tutorial will explain how to get started quickly using this open-source configuration management tool. Due to the great (and increasing) number of supported resources and its

Dário Estevão, Rafael Augusto

Puppet Quick Start Tutorial

Puppet is an open-core software configuration management tool recommended for orchestrating environments that have rigid compliance requirements, maintaining an immutable configuration of nodes, with reports and role-based access control. This

Dário Estevão, Rafael Augusto

How to Install and Configure Jenkins on the Mac OS

Are you looking for information on how to install Jenkins for Mac OS? Before we get started, there are (at least) two ways to install Jenkins on your macOS system

Valentin Despa

How to Install and Configure Jenkins on Windows 10

If you’re looking for information on how to install Jenkins on Windows 10 this is the tutorial for you. We’ll also discuss how to configure it to get your going

Valentin Despa

10 Alerts and Visualizations for S3 Server Access Logs to take control of AWS infrastructure

AWS S3 access logs provide detailed records for requests made to S3 buckets. They’re useful for many applications. For example, access log information can be useful in security and access

Amir Raz

13 Security Alerts and Visualizations for VPC Flow Logs

AWS VPC Flow Logs record details about the traffic passing through your application, including requests that were allowed or denied according to your ACL (access control list) rules. It also

Amir Raz

Guide: RegEx 101 for Managing Log Data

Regular expressions can be crucial for wrangling log data efficiently. You may want to extract specific data from your logs to make it easier to analyze and visualize. Sometimes you

Andrei Chernikov

Achieve better AWS security with just 10 Cloudtrail logs alerts

CloudTrail logs track actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service, whether taken through the AWS console or API operations. In contrast to on-premise-infrastructure where something as important

Amir Raz

Avoiding death by external side effects — a tale of Kafka Streams

At Coralogix, we strive to ensure that our customers get a stable, real-time service at scale. As part of this commitment, we are constantly improving our data ingestion pipeline resiliency

Yoni Farin

Instantly Parse The Top 12 Log Types

Throughout the past few months, I had the opportunity to work with and serve hundreds of Coralogix’s customers, the challenges in performing efficient Log Analytics are numerous, from collecting, searching,

Mary Mats

AWS Centralized Logging Guide

The key challenge with modern visibility on clouds like AWS is that data originates from various sources across every layer of the application stack, is varied in format, frequency, and

David Bitton

Introduction to Kafka Tutorial

Kafka is an open source real-time streaming messaging system and protocol built around the publish-subscribe system. In this system, producers publish data to feeds for which consumers are subscribed to.

David Bitton

Create Kafka Topics in 3 Easy Steps

Creating a topic in production is an operative task that requires awareness and preparation. In this tutorial, we’ll explain all the parameters to consider when creating a new topic in

Yoni Farin

Coralogix teams up with AWS Marketplace for Log Management

AWS offers a plethora of log and metric data but in order to extract meaningful insights and react to production issues on a dime, a centralized logging solution is critical.

Coralogix

Elasticsearch Mapping Exceptions – The complete guide

As Elasticsearch is gradually becoming the standard for textual data indexing (specifically log data) more companies struggle to scale their ELK stack. We decided to pick up the glove and

Shuki Shahrabany

CDNs and Why You Need Them

This post will explain about CDNs, one of the most important components of the modern web applications. It’s the technology that allows the world’s most popular events to be brought

Lior Tal

New Relic Vs Appdynamics Vs Dynatrace

We’ll look at 3 popular APM tools: New Relic, Appdynamics and Dynatrace to see where their strengths and weaknesses lie, how they can help you improve, and how they compare

Ariel Assaraf

Test Automation Tools to Accelerate CI/CD

So much of our world has moved away from the slow and methodical, towards the agile and iterative. In transport, for example, everything is “on demand”, constantly changing and adaptable.

Lior Tal

EKS vs. KOPS

In the past, applications would be deployed by installation on a host, using the operating system package manager. This was a heavy solution with tremendous reliance on the operating system

Ariel Assaraf

Splunk vs SumoLogic vs ELK

When it comes to the best platforms for log analysis and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions, 3 trivial alternatives come up: Splunk, Sumo Logic and ELK.

Ariel Assaraf

Terraform vs Helm Charts

Since Docker first came onto the scene in 2013 and really popularized containerization, many organizations have chosen to deploy cloud workloads using Docker containers. Containers come with numerous benefits over

Lior Tal

Travis CI vs CircleCI

Travis CI vs CircleCI The way we think about development started with Waterfall – sequential, solid, conservative – moved to Agile, whose origins can be traced back to a somewhat

Ariel Assaraf

AWS Lambda vs Azure Functions vs Google Cloud Functions

Serverless computing is on the rise, having already earned the mantle of “The Next Big Thing”. For developers, serverless computing means less concern regarding infrastructure when deploying code, as all

Lior Tal

Grafana Vs Graphite

The amount of data being generated today is unprecedented. In fact, more data has been created in the last 2 years, than in the entire history of the human race.

Ariel Assaraf

Log Management Comparison: ELK vs Graylog

Production logs can help ensure application security, reveal business insights and find and understand errors, crashes, and exceptions. But as useful as logs are, they’re difficult to manage and hard

Lior Tal

Be GDPR Ready: Prepare Your Log Data

Organizations both small and large that deal with personal data must be compliant with GDPR rules. At Coralogix, we’ve been working hard to be prepared for GDPR. Preparing your data

Ariel Assaraf

How To Explain DevOps – 10 Ways To Get It Perfectly Right

DevOps: 10 Explanations That Get It Perfectly Right Describing your profession to other people is never easy, especially if you work in the development field. Non-technical people often lack the

Ariel Assaraf

Ruby logging best practices and tips

Ruby is an opinionated language with inbuilt Ruby logging options that will serve the needs of small and basic applications. Whilst there are fewer alternatives to these than say, the

Chris Ward

Node logging best practices and tips

As is traditional with the JavaScript world, there are a dizzying amount of options for node logging. In this article, I will dig into some of the better and lesser

Chris Ward

Game of Logs: delivery assurance is coming

Long gone are the days were software companies released a version every six months, after rigorous planning, testing and stress runs (AKA the waterfall model). Today, agile companies release versions

Guy Kroupp

Quick Tips for Heroku Logging with Coralogix

TL;DR: Coralogix released a new addon for Heroku: https://elements.heroku.com/addons/coralogix. In this post we cover best Logging practices, how different cloud providers enable them, what makes Heroku logging special, and how Coralogix

Chris Ward

Tricks to being A better developer

The daily routine in the world of any Developer rarely ever reaches a point of tranquility. It takes real passion and drive to be able to seize each day, ready

Guy Kroupp

8 Awesome YouTube Channels for Developers To Subscribe To

You know how sometimes you go on YouTube with the intention to extract a bit of info, then end up being pulled into the rabbit hole of irrelevant videos? Don’t

Ariel Assaraf

Top 3 Time-Consuming Annoyances for Developers

Developers, Data Scientists, and Software Engineers alike have a lot in common when it comes to their jobs. They are in high demand, get paid well, and are amongst the

Guy Kroupp

DevOps: Overcoming the Barriers to Adoption

Considering the countless benefits of incorporating DevOps into practices, the barriers that are often faced towards adoption can be considered comical. If you’re facing difficulties in convincing the higher-ups that

Ariel Assaraf

How much does the free ELK stack cost you?

The free ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is not as free as it is cracked up to be. This post will focus on the costs of maintaining your own ELK

Ariel Assaraf

What DevOps Look for When Choosing a Logging and Monitoring Tool

By now DevOps are hopefully aware that among the multitude of modern analytics methods available to them, an advanced logging and monitoring tool provides the most complete view into how

Ariel Assaraf

How Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Log analytics

One of Machine Learning’s main advantages is the ability to independently recognize and analyze patterns which is taking repetitive tasks in a range of industries and offloading them to be

Guy Kroupp

E-commerce logging – Why Understanding Site Data Is Critical to Success

Before we dive into e-commerce logging, a short history recap: In 1992, avowed book nerd and prescient businessman Charles M. Stack launched an e-commerce site called books.com. Online shopping was a

Ariel Assaraf

Testing Vs Debugging, which do you prefer?

“My job, in theory, is to build, test, deploy and maintain software. My job, in reality, is more like the Sisyphus vortex.” This is the response I received from a

Ariel Assaraf

DevOps: Release the Hidden Power of Your Log Files

Though the widespread embrace of the DevOps approach is showing no signs of winding down, its efficacy now appears to be a bone of contention among tech leaders. A recent

Guy Kroupp

Coralogix CSO on machine learning powered log analytics

Cloud environments and Open Source software lowered the bar for anyone to implement software solutions at scale. However, as software becomes more complex and at scale, the task of monitoring

Lior Redlus

Papertrail alternatives – why you should check them

What Is Papertrail? Papertrail describes itself as “frustration-free log management.” This characterization is relatively accurate, as its platform focuses on helping users manage their own logs, rather than intelligently analyzing

Ariel Assaraf

5 time-saving tools for C# development

John Lennon once famously said ‘Imagine there’s no debugging. It’s easy if you try.’ Ok…he didn’t say exactly that, but he would have if he’d tried to do some C#

Guy Kroupp

What to consider when choosing a cloud provider

These days, it seems like platform and infrastructure services are more available than ever. With 4 large cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCE and Softlayer) and countless others with specialties (DigitalOcean,

Ariel Assaraf

Terms Every Devops Pro Needs to Know

Fully implementing a DevOps culture is a demanding endeavor for even the best-prepared organization. In addition to developing new workflows and processes to integrate the development and operations functions of

Ariel Assaraf

5 intermediate level tips to reduce cloud costs

Cloud costs. Everybody wants to keep them down as much as possible while maintaining reliability and service quality. In this post, we’d like to go beyond the more obvious recommendations,

Ariel Assaraf

Key Steps to Implementing Enterprise DevOps

Whether your team is currently using an Agile approach to manage its software development or has yet to institute a formal project management system, implementing enterprise DevOps solutions is a

Guy Kroupp

Five Tools Every Java Developer Needs

There are a lot of tools out there but these are the ones you really need Search the internet for “Java Developer Tools” and millions of articles come back. You’ll

Guy Kroupp

The Most Important Things to Log in Your Application Software

Hint – you should log to be proactive not just to have your data stored When it comes to deciding what events to log in a software application, you should

Ariel Assaraf

Website Performance Monitoring – You Are Doing It Wrong

With all the data available today, it’s easy to think that tracking website performance is as simple as installing a few tools and waiting for alerts to appear. Clearly the

Ariel Assaraf

Top 4 Logging Problems You Have Probably Faced and how to fix them

Machine data is growing at a fast pace, which presents significant problems. By definition, it is not readily available to be analyzed, but we are here to help you out

Ariel Assaraf

Loggly Alternatives

If you’re looking to gain more than just logging management from your log management host, Loggly isn’t the only company you should be considering. Here are a few pointers that

Guy Kroupp

13 DevOps Influencers, Groups and Blogs You Need to Follow

With the DevOps movement making its mark on every major industry, everyone should be paying attention. Whether you are an Operations/DevOps engineer yourself or are head of business, you should

Ariel Assaraf

The dark side of Micro services

If you build it right and not just use it as a buzz word, I believe we can all agree that microservices are great and that they make your code & production

Guy Kroupp

Why are we analyzing only 1% of our logs?

Here at Coralogix, one of the main goals we have is what we call “Make Big Data small” the idea is to allow our users to view a narrow set

Ariel Assaraf