In this blog, we’ll take a step-by-step look at setting up a simple ECS cluster to run a standalone instance of Splunk. For those new to Splunk, ECS and the world of containers, I would recommend the following could be used for prototypes, testing and development.
SQL is the dominant language for data analysis because most of the time, the data you're analyzing is stored in a database. And most analysis involves a lot of filtering, grouping and counting — actions that SQL makes very easy. But sometimes you need to go beyond pure SQL.
Consider information security at an organization that has 17,000 employees, 100,000 inhabitants, an airport, a power plant and a police force. You might think we're talking about protecting assets for a mid-size city or large corporation—that'd be a good guess.
When I attended the Pacific Northwest BI & Analytics Summit this summer, we had a great discussion about data interpretation and the way organizations consume data.
Sematext provides a single pane of glass and machine learning powered alerts for logs, metrics, traces and digital user experience data. The new Sematext agent is fully Docker Engine and Kubernetes-aware. (Re)written in Go, it has a minimal memory and CPU footprint.
For the first couple years, we ran Periscope Data on Heroku. As a young startup, Heroku was a fantastic platform because it significantly reduced our operational complexity, letting us focus almost all our time on shipping product.
