Installation- Quick Configuration In order to install the LogStash quickly, we need to Download LogStash, ElasticSearch, Kibana and Java8. The broker module (Redis) will not be used. Download the following RPMs from the ElasticSearch website. The LogStash, ElasticSearch, Kibana are found on the same website.. LogStash (v6.2.3 as of this writing) ElasticSearch (v6.2.3 as of … Continue reading
This article describes the plugin that send Nagios HTML Alert Emails with Performance Graphs. This is the Version 3 of the popular ‘Send HTML Alert Email’. Nagios Alert eMails now contain formatted Text & Performance Graphs which is much smaller saving you bandwidth. Tested with Nagios v3 & 4. This may not work with Nagios … Continue reading
Are you having trouble with High Traffic websites?. Or too many TCP Connections been made to too many services?. Surprisingly you don’t need to have high traffic to your website to get TCP Timeout connections from random services. During the good old days we used simple Apache Tomcat + MySQL, and never dreamt of fine-tuning … Continue reading
As a Technology Centred System Architect, I am constantly looking ahead at distributing data across multiple geographic location in order to improve the performance of the system.. Over the past 7 years, I have been pushing my limits on Load-Balancing via distributed systems.. Some of the sub-systems were in turn Re-Load-Balanced to provide optimum performance … Continue reading
Over the years of working in multiple IT companies, there’s one thing that remains constant – “Month end farewell parties”.. There are a few things that can be done to reduce the staff turnover. As employees work over time, they accumulate knowledge(domain knowledge) and wisdom which is used to accelerate the progress of the company. … Continue reading
Going through the thousands of apps in the Android Market place, one would astonished to find so many adventure applications available for free. I have listed down a few applications that would help you get out of a sticky swamp in Sri Lanka.. I will first start off by prepping you with the basics of … Continue reading