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How Not to Fail at Data Visualization

Grafana, with its huge amount of data sources and plugins, has all the capabilities one needs to create accurate graphs. Although creating dashboards is easy, interpreting each panel is hard if it’s not correctly visualised. Misinterpretation is one of the most common causes of wrong conclusions that make us hunt ghosts during debugging sessions. There are many common pitfalls which we can avoid if we follow some rules.

Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud Management

One of the unintended side-effects of the public cloud is the enablement of a platform-agnostic cloud architecture. This means that it’s now easier than ever to mix offerings from multiple vendors (cloud vendors in this case) to form a single application or service-based solution. There is one gotcha, however: log management.

Business Leaders Can't Afford To Wait For Insights: How Self-Service BI is Changing Data Analysis

It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in — there’s more data at your fingertips than ever before. And with that data comes an opportunity to make informed decisions that will take your business to new heights. For marketing alone, becoming best-in-class at data analytics can help you generate 20 percent more revenue than your competitors. Those benefits increase exponentially when you bring data-driven decision-making to every aspect of your business.

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 create a series of posts to help you tackle the most common Elasticsearch performance and functional issues. This post will help you in understanding and solving one of the most frustrating Elasticsearch issues – Mapping exceptions.

5 Benefits to Run Elastic Stack in the Cloud

Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana — the trio better known as Elastic Stack (or ELK, if you prefer a term that is now going out of style), make up a powerful set of tools for searching and analyzing data. Their power derives not just from their technical features, but also the fact that Elastic Stack is an open source platform that anyone can download and set up anywhere.