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Curator 1.1.0 Released

By Aaron On June 13, 2014 · 2 Comments

Hi all!

I have been busy working on Curator 1.1.0 since Elasticsearch released version 1.0, with Snapshot/Restore capability. It’s taken some time to get things to work the way I wanted them, but the results are good!

I wrote a full blog post about it on elasticsearch.com.

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New collectd codec (Logstash 1.4.1+) configuration

By Aaron On May 7, 2014 · Leave a Comment

With the advent of Logstash 1.4.1, I wanted to make sure everyone knows about the new collectd codec.

In Logstash 1.3.x, we introduced the collectd input plugin.  It was awesome!  We could process metrics in Logstash, store them in Elasticsearch and view them with Kibana.  The only downside was that you could only get around [...]

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Introduction to Logstash: Webinar

By Aaron On April 10, 2014 · Leave a Comment

I realized that I never shared the link to the webinar I did back in December.  If you’re interested in learning more about Logstash, check out my webinar here:  Introduction to Logstash

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Curator: Managing your Logstash and other time-series indices in Elasticsearch — beyond delete and optimize

By Aaron On February 18, 2014 · 9 Comments

Deprecated: See http://untergeek.com/2014/06/13/curator-1-1-0-released/

 

In my last post I mentioned curator, an update to the logstash_index_cleaner.py script I’d written so very long ago (okay, is 2.5 [...]

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Curator

By Aaron On January 22, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Deprecated:

See this post instead.

I had a lot of fun writing what was once logstash_index_cleaner.py.  That script was then rolled into Logstash’s expire-logs github repository. It’s been through several revisions and iterations since then, but the newest incarnation is the best. Check out my blog post at elasticsearch.org on [...]

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Logstash o’ Lantern

By Aaron On October 31, 2013 · Leave a Comment

It’s Halloween, and I couldn’t not make an attempt at this:

 

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Getting Apache to output JSON (for logstash 1.2.x)

By Aaron On September 11, 2013 · 13 Comments

Greetings, travelers, who may have come to this page by way of my other page on this subject, dealing with the same subject matter, but with logstash version 1.1.x.

Logstash 1.2.1 is brand new as of this edition.  The changes to my Apache CustomLog JSON recipe are [...]

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How a search engine saved my air conditioner

By Aaron On August 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Of course, that is only partially true.  The search engine really only saved me money from having to have a service technician come to my house to do a 10 minute repair.

“So what happened?” you might ask.  I was working in my office at home.  It seemed a bit warm, but it was 105°F/40.6°C outside. [...]

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Unconventional Zabbix: Part 1 — Extended External Monitoring

By Aaron On July 29, 2013 · 2 Comments

Zabbix 2.2 will be the first version which will allow web scenario templating. But in the days of 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0, I had (still have) serious shortcomings in web monitoring to overcome. I had hundreds of URLs which needed monitoring with a large bulk of them being nearly identical, or at least having identical [...]

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A rant about education, success and the 3 Ds

By Aaron On April 5, 2013 · 4 Comments

Update: Contrary to online job posting, you don’t need a college degree to work at Mass. McDonald’s

Looks like the story was bogus. Short version: Some other job posting service put the erroneous requirement in its listing.

However, [...]

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