Logz.io Blog
logz.io · Company blog · on HN since 2015
Logz.io is a log analytics company whose blog covers ELK stack, Logstash, Fluentd, OpenSearch, and observability.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend it for log aggregation and link its OpenSearch post; one notes the site had HTTPS and mixed content problems.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Fluentd vs. Logstash: A Comparison of Log Collectors3 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 2Homepage3 people · first shared 2015
- 3Technical Debt Is a Good Thing2 people · 13 points · first shared 2015 · 8 comments on HN
- 4Logstash pitfalls need to know2 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 5How to Use ELK to Monitor Performance2 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 6Open source elasticsearch doubling down2 people · first shared 2021
- 7Deploy elk production2 people · first shared 2015
- 8Should You Become a Full Stack Developer?1 people · 11 points · first shared 2015 · 21 comments on HN
- 9The Beginner's Guide to DevOps1 people · 9 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 10The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 20161 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11The Definitive Guide to AWS Log Analytics Using ELK1 people · 6 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 12A Logstash Tutorial: How to Get Started1 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 13How to Use AWS Elasticsearch for Log Management1 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14Elasticsearch Cluster Setup and Update: Plan, Read, and Test1 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15How to create custom Kibana visualizations1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
dengolius · 2023-03-03
Hey!
I recommend to check post from VictoriaMetrics CTO https://valyala.medium.com/promql-tutorial-for-beginners-9ab455142085 and this guide https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/migrate-from-influx.html. Also there is nice post from Logz.io https://logz.io/blog/influxql-to-promql-grafana-dashboard-converter-op… which contain a converter https://github.com/logzio/influxql-to-promql-converter
horovits · 2021-07-13
great news! here's my take on it:
https://logz.io/blog/opensearch-1-0-ga-generally-available-elasticsear…
whatnotests · 2017-01-23
* https://www.sendinblue.com/ (like Mailchimp, but easier)
* https://logz.io/ (log aggregation FTW)
* https://www.skylight.io/ (application performance monitoring for Ruby, similar to New Relic, written in Rust)
philip1209 · 2017-01-23
logz.io does not appear to support TLS on their homepage. I'm getting mixed content errors that are preventing stylesheet loading.
So, correct link may be http://logz.io instead of https://logz.io
proudboffin · 2016-04-05
I guess it depends on your needs. Elasticsearch is a great option, and if you're looking for visualizing the data then it can be used together with Kibana to create cross-data graphs and visualizations. For the kind of data volume you're talking of, you'll need a fully scalable stack, with queuing and other buffers to handle traffic. You might find this piece we wrote useful: http://logz.io/blog/deploy-elk-production/
sjscott80 · 2015-06-10
Hello! I didn't quite understand -- are looking for a log analysis tool that also helps with related web analytics? Disclosure: I work for Logz.io (http://logz.io) and our log analytics platform can do exactly that.
To learn more about the intersection of log analytics and web analytics, you might want to see this Moz post I wrote a few weeks ago on using log data to analyze search engine crawl rates, crawl budgets, bad response codes, crawl priorities, duplicate URL crawling, and more:
https://moz.com/blog/technical-seo-log-analysis
I hope it might help! (Again, full disclosure repeated. :)
eddythompson80 · 2023-09-19
I’ll raise you one better I came across yesterday
https://logz.io/learn/how-to-run-opentelemetry-demo-with-logz-io/
If it’s not obvious, try scrolling a bit then try to go back to this page
peterfarkas · 2023-07-05
I am not sure if any hate is warranted, but it is true that coming up with a new license which does not comply with open source licenses, and proceeding to call it open source definitely did not help to create sympathy.
There is nothing wrong with releasing something under a proprietary license but calling this license change "Doubling down on open source" is damaging.
https://logz.io/blog/open-source-elasticsearch-doubling-down/
pimlottc · 2022-12-30
Perhaps because many devs, like me, haven't heard of "grok patterns"[0] before. Because of that, it took me a while to understand what your post was saying, since I was reading "grok" as a normal word.
It's not a bad idea, though you'd want to make it a more formal standard; since it's just used internally in one project, it may be subject to change based on that project's own needs. There could also be more documentation, showing examples of strings that are accepted and not accepted by each pattern, as well as advice for generating compliant strings.
0: https://logz.io/blog/logstash-grok/
wdb · 2021-07-28
I liked this article: https://logz.io/learn/opentelemetry-guide/
You also have the Observability podcasts
latchkey · 2021-01-16
Years ago, ELK was the thing for log files. logstash. https://logz.io/blog/server-log-analysis/
loki is indeed what I ended up with and it was a mostly easier install process (despite the missing easily installed debian packages).
The next problem being that Graphana is actually quite terrible at rendering log files. It seems the log file usecase just isn't that popular.
JTxt · 2018-10-11
https://logz.io/blog/influxdb-vs-elasticsearch/
https://portal.influxdata.com/downloads
Perhaps also consider influxdb
ktamura · 2016-08-12
There's been some comparisons in the past.
http://logz.io/blog/fluentd-logstash/
https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150807-fluentd-vs-logstash
http://jasonwilder.com/blog/2013/11/19/fluentd-vs-logstash/
tomerlevy · 2015-06-24
ELK is a good option - I'm a fan of open source.
You can build it on your own (http://logz.io/blog/deploy-elk-production/) or you can use ELK as a service (disclaimer, I work for Logz.io which offers such service).
We see customers use ELK to detect intrusion attempts by monitoring and alerting on:
- Access from specific countries
- Internal connections to specific countries
- SSH auth request
- Correlation between failed logins across multiple machines
- kernel exceptions (which may be buffer overflow attempts)
- AWS VPC Logs
- AWS Cloudtrail logs - we internally use it extensively to audit access
HTH
bogomipz · 2019-10-12
ODFE has a security plugin and supports auditing, RBAC and support for node to node encryption[1][2]. The security plugin is based on Search Guard[3].I have run Elastisearch clusters using both the Elastics Co opensource versions as well as ODFE and have personally found the security plugin of ODFE preferable to Elastic Co's X-pack. ODFE also has some additional features included like PerfAnalyzer and SQL interface. In terms of managing the Open Source Elasticsearch vs ODFE they are pretty much the same. I have not used the managed AWS Elasticsearch offering but I read the blog post and felt it had very little to do with ODFE. There is a good feature comparison matrix here:
https://logz.io/blog/open-distro-for-elasticsearch/
[1] https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/security-conf…
[2] https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/security-audi…
[3] https://search-guard.com/
snisarenko · 2020-04-14
Hi snewman,
I am currently using logdna as my splunk alternative, but it's not very good.
Why should I try scalyr next, over the other alternatives ?
My main constraint is the solution should be at least half as good as splunk, and cost less than $50 a month (I generate less than 1G a day).
Your pricing seems to be reasonable. But how do you compare to splunk on features ?
Here are the other tools I am considering trying
https://www.humio.com/
https://www.sumologic.com/
https://sematext.com/logsene/
https://www.datadoghq.com/log-management/
https://logz.io/pricing/
https://www.chaossearch.io/
https://www.papertrail.com/
https://www.loggly.com/
https://www.graylog.org/products/enterprise