Recently, I noticed a problem with my Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) not appropriately rotating indexes. The error was not super clear, but I did notice that the existing index had just reached 90 days without closing and that was the first move in the ILM. It was clear that the …

I've been an ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats) user for quite some time, using exclusively the open source version fo the stack. Generally it's works well and, with some exceptions, supports our mostly-Solaris based environment (using LX zones to host most of the beefier components, and using custom-built …

As I've possibly mentioned here before, ClueTrust is using Elasticsearch to perform analysis of log information. Recently, I finally decided to take some our telemetry inforamtion and pull it in to Elasticsearch as a data exploration and statistical tool. Importing structured XML data into Elasticsearch Although there are some filters …