Applications of Emerging Big Data Analytics Technologies in IT Operations
Every couple months or so John Willis (aka @botchagalupe) and I meet up over at the Marietta Diner to catch up on what we’ve each been working on. Often these multi-hour discussions lead us into the...
View ArticleFrom Zero to Search in 15 Minutes: Using Vagrant to Explore IBM Log Analytics
Many application development, support and operations environments are undergoing significant transformation from programs and initiatives such as DevOps, Agile/Lean, Virtualization and Cloud Computing....
View ArticleSmart Cloud Analytics for Applications Open Beta Integration with WebSphere...
As previously mentioned in the first blog post in this series, one of the goals for the first release of Smart Cloud Analytics for Applications (SCAA) is to make it as simple to download, install and...
View ArticleKick the Smart Cloud Analytics for Applications “Tires” in 5 Steps
With a lot of iterations and feedback from “Uncle Charlie”, we’ve got things in my Git repo and with Vagrant in a pretty good state. I’m confident that if our product manager can do this, anyone can!...
View ArticleConsolidating local system & app logs using rsyslog for shipping to Smart...
With the basics of Smart Cloud Analytics Log Analysis (SCALA) in place from scenario1, I’ll begin to share additional scenarios that place emphasis on getting system and application log data into the...
View ArticleSwimming in the BIG BlueMix Sea – Design and Deployment of a Log Analysis...
A few months back, I was asked to help deploy our Log Analysis solution for our BlueMix Fabric Dev/Ops team. Their pain point – getting value and insights from massive amounts of Cloud Foundry (CF)...
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