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Using docker images for evaluating Elastic Search If you use or evaluate Elastic Search, you may be surprised of the quite fast version lifecycle and the new features found in every minor version (almost a minor version each two months). Recently, Elastic Search 7.6 was released. A simpler possibility than to upgrade your test environment, …
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Alfresco Observability with Elastic APM Last days I played with Elastic APM for gaining some insights on the performance of our Alfresco production instance. The setup is quite straight-foward, although obviously, you need some infraestructure for it: An Elastic Search cluster (with Kibana). An Elastic APM Server (listening on port 8200, and binded with your Elastic Search cluster). …
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Setting basic security in ES As you probably know from Elastic 6.8 and 7.1 versions, security module is free in Basic License, providing important features such as: Native realm for create and managing local users. Role based control access for indices and cluster APIs in Kibana. From some time ago, I can read news about …
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How to backup data in Elastic Snapshots are a very important task for backup, restoration and upgrade procedures in Elastic Search. A snapshot is just a backup taken from a running ES cluster, what we often know as a hot backup. A big disclaimer is taken from documentation; you cannot back up an Elasticsearch cluster by …
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Un resumen de mi participación en el ElasticON Tour de Barcelona El pasado martes asistí en Barcelona a un evento del Elastic{ON} Tour, donde el equipo de Elastic Iberia comandado por Ignacio Suárez, Matias Cascallares y Regina Sáenz nos presentó el roadmap y novedades del popular motor de búsqueda analítica y su stack de aplicaciones. Tras una introducción histórica …
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Nos vemos en el ElasticON Tour La semana que viene (3 de diciembre) estaremos en el evento Elastic{ON} Tour en Barcelona, una oportunidad de conocer en primera persona el roadmap y las novedades del popular stack de búsqueda analítica con corazón open source de la mano de sus expertos. En sus últimas versiones se han incorporado …
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Enabling monitoring xpack in Elastic Search 7 When enabling monitoring xpack in Elastic Search and Logstash, you can enjoy the Stack Monitoring section in Kibana. This section provides a complete interface for monitoring your ELK setup including Elastic Search cluster, Logstash and Kibana. For enabling (you need to have security xpack enabled first to define …
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Direct monitoring with Elastic Stack 7 Last days I was exploring several features of Elastic Stack in version 7.2, including some of the available Beats agents. In this case, I played a beat with Heartbeat agent, that it is able to perform direct monitoring via TCP / HTTP / ICMP for a given url / …
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Monitoring JMX metrics with Metricbeat and Elastic Search Some time ago we did a Kibana dashboard for JMX monitoring in Alfresco via Logstash. Today I’ll briefly let some notes for a similar configuration but with other tool of the Elastic Stack, Metricbeat, using a jolokia plugin for HTTP – JMX bridge. The main difference is that in …
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Open Source Elastic Stack finally meets security As you probably know, Elastic Search is a distributed, document-oriented search and analytics engine, which supports structured and unstructured queries with a schemaless model ahead of time. Elastic Search is used as a search engine, and often for web-scale log analytics or real-time application monitoring. In the past, we …
Alfresco Activity Console in Elastic Search In the last post about «Auditing added content in Alfresco repository», we talked about how to create a simple audit console based on an Alfresco behaviour. Let’s give some details for this example. The idea is quite simple, for Alfresco creation events, to write an event log in catalina.out, such the following one: …
Alfresco Activity Console in Elastic Search One of the most important questions for many customers, once they are working with a document management system (now content services), is to know how they are using it. They want to obtain basic usage metrics about their business processes and custom content types to understand quantitatively how critical they are. Sometimes even …
Monitoring Alfresco access logs In last Alfresco Devcon, I presented some basic configuration for Alfresco monitoring with Elastic stack (ELK). A very nice automated setup for testing this configuration in ELK 6.1 is via the docker compose setup given in this github project: $ git clone https://github.com/deviantony/docker-elk $ cd docker-elk This is an opportunity of …
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Monitoring Alfresco CE with ELK stack Some weeks ago I wrote a post about how to set up a basic Kibana dashboard representing System Performance and Active Sessions in Alfresco Enterprise via JMX metrics from a logstash JMX input. As you probably know, no such Alfresco JMX objects are available in Alfresco Community, such as active …
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-1024x337.jpg "Simple Kibana dashboard for monitoring Alfresco Logs")
Some days ago I wrote a post about how to set up a basic Kibana dashboard in Alfresco Enterprise with JMX metrics, from a logstash JMX input. Today I’m gonna add some simple configuration for creating a dashboard for Alfresco logs. The architecture for ELK is the same of the previous post, with logstash running in your Alfresco instance and a dedicated Elastic Search and Kibana server.
Monitoring Alfresco EE with ELK stack This weekend I read in Elastic blog that Mr. Robot uses Kibana for monitoring the Dark Army, so I decided to write a post about a recent monitoring project for representing some basic (but interesting) Alfresco JMX metrics in a clustered environment, in which I was involved last week. As …
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