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What Is MTTF? Mean Time to Failure Explained in Detail

“What is MTTF?” That’s the question we’ll answer with today’s post. Yep, the article’s title makes it evident that the acronym stands for “mean time to failure.” But that, on its own, doesn’t say anything. What does “mean time to failure” actually mean? Why should you care? That’s what today’s post covers in detail.

Announcing the General Availability of LogDNA Screens

LogDNA is known and loved by developers for our lightning fast live tail and search. With some users ingesting over a petabyte of data per day, our users want to be able to visualize their data and put it to use. You told us what analytics you value most and we’ve taken the first step to providing them within the LogDNA product. The first is having highly interactive graphs. Graphs allow you to analyze patterns and trends by navigating through your data over a period of time.

Why Nine Publishing rebuilt their infrastructure using search solutions

What does the revamped, modern technology stack of a 185-year-old Australian news corporation look like? In an industry that faces serious competition from anyone with a WordPress site and something to say, Nine Publishing, producer of Australia’s three largest news sites, sought to preserve a competitive edge by understanding how to enrich the experiences of their readers and journalists, while simultaneously identifying pain points and spotting problems before they happen.

Shipping Office 365 audit logs to Graylog with O365beat

O365beat is an exceptionally useful open-source log shipping tool created by counteractive. With a few simple tweaks, it can be used to fetch Office 365 audit logs from the Office 365 Management Activity API and forward them to Graylog. The best part of this tool is that it leverages all the flexibility and power of the beats platforms such as libbeat.

Predictive Analytics to Improve Decision Making

Predictive analytics for networks are helping businesses optimize their network performance, anticipate network capacity related requirements, and eventually forecast future much more efficiently than ever. Gartner has estimated the value of network monitoring software market at roughly $2.1 Billion, this figure is presently increasing at a growth rate of 15.9% annually. The demand for predictive analytics in network monitoring software has grown beyond enterprises and datacentres.

IBM Expands IBM Cloud Paks Offering with LogDNA

IBM recently announced an expanded Cloud Paks offering with LogDNA. With this offering, developers and engineering teams can easily aggregate and search huge volumes of data from any source to gain real-time insights on their applications. LogDNA is now offered by IBM and deployable on-premise or multi-cloud with all IBM Cloud Paks including Cloud Pak for Applications, Cloud Pak for Data, Cloud Pak for Integration, Cloud Pak for Multi-cloud Management, and Cloud Pak for Automation.

A Breakdown of Language Analyzers for Elasticsearch

Any search engine needs to be be able to parse language. As the field of natural language processing (NLP) has grown, specific text analysis has been applied to stop words and tokenizing (or marking) them by part of speech. In Elasticsearch (and elsewhere), the most attention has been paid to English, although the ELK stack has built-in support for 34 languages as of this writing.

A deep dive into Elasticsearch authentication realms

This is a technical deep dive into the authentication process — a necessary first step before addressing the authorization decisions that are at the core of Elasticsearch security. The following will be a very detailed explanation of the inner workings of a key part of the authentication process: realms. If you'd prefer to start with a broader view of authentication (and authorization) in Elasticsearch, you may want to check out Demystifying authentication and authorization in Elasticsearch.