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Radu Gheorghe (Sematext Group) & Ciprian Hacman (polypoly) explain how Kubernetes can be used to manage and autoscale Elasticsearch clusters. They will explain the use cases for such a setup, what are the pros and cons of using Kubernetes to manage Elasticsearch for logging, and what operators are currently available to accomplish this task.

Monitoring Docker logs is critical to ensure the performance of your containers. However, setting up a centralized logging solution may be a daunting task. But it doesn’t need to be. Follow along with this short Docker tutorial to learn how to start monitoring your container logs now!

Sematext’s Synthetic monitoring tool is a website monitoring solution that lets you track the availability and performance of your websites. Monitor your entire website or an individual HTTP request, including 3rd party APIs. Get the best website monitoring tools with Sematext’s synthetics and Real User monitoring tools.

“Kubernetes vs. Docker” is one of the most commonly asked questions by new developers. But what is docker? And what is Kubernetes? If you want to become a full-stack developer, you will need to understand both of these technologies. In this video, we will take a look at what Docker is and how it fits into a developer's workflow. We will then look at what is Kubernetes and how it relates to Docker. We will then see what the difference is between docker and docker swarm.

Docker logs are one of the primary sources of information developers use to spot problems with their apps. However, Docker log files can get huge in a short amount of time. This is why you absolutely must configure Docker log rotation! 🔥Today, we will explain how to free up space on the host machine of your Docker containers. We will also look at how to set up a centralized logging solution for free to get the most out of your Docker logs.

What is a real user monitoring tool? and what is a synthetic tool? Which monitoring tool do you really need? In this comparison video, we will look at the pros and cons of monitoring your site with synthetic vs. real user monitoring tools. Ultimately, we will see that these two technologies work together to ensure that your website runs well and is optimized for the end-user.

Sematext offers end-to-end visibility into your entire application bridging the gap between performance monitoring, real user monitoring, transaction tracing, and logs in one convenient place.

Sematext Synthetics allows you to collect information on the performance of critical business transactions, resources, load test information, and much more.

A breakdown of Sematext Experience, an easy-to-use Real User Monitoring solution, adding to the Sematext Cloud observability toolbelt, which encompasses Log Management, Infrastructure Monitoring, Tracing and now, Real User Monitoring.

A user looking for “awesome smartphone 2018” is likely really after “+review:awesome +category:smartphone +release_date:2018”. A clever use of (e)dismax might get us pretty close to where we want, but it’s not real query understanding. There are other ways, of course, like training a model that will, based on the keyword, guess which field it’s looking into.