Sematext:
Helping Organizations to Perform Better
Organizations nowadays use various forms of software that eventually leads to an increase in data and logs, which are extremely critical to monitor. Because of this, organizations end up paying high prices for licensing fees and ongoing operational inefficiencies. To tackle these prevalent issues – a globally distributed organization – Sematext enters the fray with its innovative cloud and on-premise solutions. They offer infrastructure and application performance monitoring and log management solutions- Sematext Cloud and Sematext Enterprise. In addition to the above, Sematext goes the distance to provide Search and Big Data consulting services. They also offer 24 / 7 production support and training for Apache Solr and Elasticsearch to their worldwide clients.
A Visionary who Led Sematext to Glory Otis Gospodnetić, Founder and President of Sematext group, is the visionary who led the company to its current glory. He is the author of several published books, a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and a proficient speaker at several industry events. As an active participant of Apache Software Foundation, he has significantly contributed to Apache Solr and Apache Lucene – a software library positioned at the core of Solr and Elasticsearch.
Prior to Sematext, Otis served at Thomson Reuters as a manager and held the chair of Senior Engineer of Search at Technorati and Wireless Generation. His educational resume includes a Bachelor’ s Degree in
Computer Science from Middlebury College.
Helping Clients with Performance- Related Issues A decade ago, Sematext was started as a professional service organization. Their service back then included consulting, support and training for Elasticsearch and Apache Solr. While dealing with massive clusters, and helping clients with performancerelated issues, the company found itself in a dire need of tools that were imperative with regards to Solr and Elasticsearch performance metrics. But due to a shortage of tools back then, they could only provide unified monitoring and log management solutions. This prompted Sematext to build its very own tools.
Eventually, Elasticsearch and ELK( aka Elastic Stack) became immensely popular among the DevOps circuit for building log indexing and searching functionality. Their Elastic Stack was seen and preferred by the masses as a cheaper alternative of Splunk. Sematext already possessed a deep Elastic Stack expertise, and adding log management to the already existing infrastructure and application performance monitoring was the obvious next step for them. This was the cause behind Sematext ending up with Sematext Cloud, thereby offering an all-in-one unified monitoring and log management.
The Past is Always Tense; It’ s about Making the Future Perfect DevOps teams of different organization tend to invest a lot of time and energy to automate the whole workflow, such as CI pipelines and automated deployment, as well as in monitoring operations. Improvements in applications require a consistent need to learn from past failures and strategies, to avoid any repetition of the same.
Sematext provides logging and monitoring tools to gain operational intelligence from development, staging and production environments. They realize that visibility of application and infrastructure metrics combined with logs is what helps an enterprise identify pre-existing and potential issues. It serves as the first step in each of its iteration to solve identified technical problems.
Helping DevOps Team Spend Less Time on Troubleshooting Sematext’ s Cloud integration enables their customers to collect metrics, logs, and events across their entire stack. They go beyond collecting metrics and detecting anomalies by uncovering applications’ slowest transactions, tracing communication between servers and applications, and others. Sematext includes a fully-integrated Kibana and exposes the Elasticsearch API. It works smoothly with all standard logging facilities and agents – such as Logstash, Fluentd, Flume, Filebeat, etc. – and integrates the same within minutes. By enabling businesses to collect metrics, logs and events easily – their solution provides a fullstack of visibility through a single pane of glass and helps businesses to extract value from those accumulated data.
Sematext’ s unified all-in-one monitoring and logging solution eliminates costly context-switching, which a person is forced into while
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