Monitoring OBIEE with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
Monitoring the health of an OBIEE system and diagnosing problems that may occur is a vital task for the system’s administrator and support staff. It’s one that at Rittman Mead we help customers with...
View ArticleBI Forum 2015 Preview -- OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with...
I’m pleased to be presenting at both of the Rittman Mead BI Forums this year; in Brighton it’ll be my fourth time, whilst Atlanta will be my first, and my first trip to the city too. I’ve heard great...
View ArticleUsing the ELK Stack to Analyse Donor's Choose Data
Donor’s Choose is an online charity in America through which teachers can post details of projects that need funding and donors can give money towards them. The data from the charity since it began in...
View ArticleThree Easy Ways to Stream Twitter Data into ElasticSearch
For the past few months a friend has been driving me crazy with all his praise for Splunk. He was going on about how easy it is to install, integrate different sources and build reports. I eventually...
View ArticleForays into Kafka - Logstash transport / centralisation
The holy trinity of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) are a powerful trio of tools for data discovery and systems diagnostics. In a nutshell, they enable you to easily search through your log...
View ArticleForays into Kafka - Enabling Flexible Data Pipelines
One of the defining features of “Big Data” from a technologist’s point of view is the sheer number of tools and permutations at one’s disposal. Do you go Flume or Logstash? Avro or Thrift? Pig or...
View ArticleNew Performance Analytics Release
Poor performance is one of the most common complaints we hear upon arrival to customer sites, and often for good reason. When users have time to “make the rounds” before the system returns a result (if...
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