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- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Elastic Beats and Where They Fit With ELK Stack
After my last blog post about Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, I wanted to investigate something else I kept coming across during my Logstash research: Elastic Beats. Beats initially appeared to me to be a way to send data to Elasticsearch, the same as Logstash, leading me to wonder how Beats is different and where it...
Learn MoreShane DucksburyFebruary 22, 2021 -
- Apache Cassandra
- Technical
- News
Security Advisory: CVE-2020-17516
Earlier this week, a vulnerability was published to the Cassandra users mailing list which describes a flaw in the way Apache Cassandra nodes perform encryption in some configurations. The vulnerability description is reproduced here: “Description: When using ‘dc’ or ‘rack’ internode_encryption setting, a Cassandra instance allows both encrypted and unencrypted connections. A misconfigured node or...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 07, 2021 -
- Technical
- News
Instaclustr Terraform Provider Added to Terraform Provider Registry
Instaclustr is pleased to announce that our popular Terraform provider is now published to the official Terraform providers registry. This makes the provider publicly available for browsing and searching via the registry interface, as well as available to install via the CLI. Terraform is a popular framework that enables infrastructure as code (IAC) capabilities, allowing...
Learn MoreInstaclustrFebruary 02, 2021 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Alexander Jurkovic
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Alexander Jurkovic– HR and Recruitment Support Officer, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? My role at Instaclustr primarily involves the end-to-end recruitment and onboarding process of new employees into the company, along with supporting the rest of the Human...
Learn MoreInstaclustrJanuary 29, 2021 -
- Apache Kafka
- Technical
Scaling Apache Kafka® Connect Streaming Data Processing (Pipeline Series Part 5)
In Part 4 of this blog series, we started exploring Kafka Connector task scalability by configuring a new scalable load generator for our real-time streaming data pipeline, discovering relevant metrics, and configuring Prometheus and Grafana monitoring. We are now ready to increase the load and scale the number of Kafka Connector tasks and demonstrate the...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerJanuary 25, 2021 -
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Getting to Know ELK Stack: Exploring the Power of Logstash
As a new member of the Product Team here at Instaclustr, I wanted to explore our offerings by connecting Logstash with our Managed Elasticsearch and Kibana. Having had no prior experience with the ELK Stack, and wanting to find out more about the power of Elasticsearch, I thought “How hard could it be?”
Learn MoreShane DucksburyJanuary 21, 2021 -
- Apache Kafka
- Technical
Monitoring Apache Kafka® Connect Pipeline Metrics with Prometheus (Pipeline Series Part 4)
In Part 3 of this blog series, we looked at Apache Camel Kafka Connector to see if it is more or less robust than the connectors we tried in Part 1 and Part 2. Now we start exploring Kafka Connect task scaling. In this blog we will: Change the data source so we can easily...
Learn MorePaul BrebnerJanuary 21, 2021 -
- Popular
- Elasticsearch
- Technical
Changes to Elasticsearch™ Licensing
Yesterday, Elastic announced they would moving their “Apache 2.0-licensed source code in Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License” (read their full announcement here). This change means that components of Elasticsearch or Kibana in subsequent versions (7.11 and onwards) are no longer under an OSI-approved...
Learn MoreBen BromheadJanuary 15, 2021 -
- Team
Instaclustr Insights: Meet Paris Larkins
Instaclustr Insights provide meaningful insights into team members’ work lives. This time it is Paris Larkins – Graduate Software Engineer, Instaclustr. What does your role at Instaclustr entail? My role at Instaclustr entails managing, maintaining, enhancing, and implementing Instaclustr’s development security practices. This ranges from tracking and prioritizing discovered vulnerabilities, responding to security incidents, helping...
Learn MoreInstaclustrJanuary 04, 2021