ELK Stack v2 (and a correction)
I’ve learned a lot since my last post. One of those things is that I was wrong… setting up Logstash on your Redis nodes isn’t such a bad idea. Another thing ... » Read more
ELK Stack Design
I’ve been working on a new logging system based around Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. One of my biggest challenges was that all the recommended designs... » Read more
Windows 7 x64 and Underscore-CLI
Underscore-CLI is a great utility for working with JSON data. Below are the steps it took to get it running on my Windows 7 laptop: » Read more
Hyper-V, CentOS 6.5 kernel panic, and 7 long hours
In hopes of it helping someone else not spend hours of work like I just did here is my lesson-learned from my first day of using Windows Server 2012 r2 Hyper... » Read more
Vagrant, Fusion, & DHCP Oddities
I’ve had some random weirdness that I thought was related to Vagrant’s VMware Fusion provider until I turned on debugging tonight. As it turns out, Fusion ha... » Read more