New 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 »
Streaming data from Oracle using Oracle GoldenGate and Kafka Connect
This article was also posted on the Confluent blog, head over there for more great Kafka-related content! Kafka Connect is part of the Confluent Platform, providing »
System Metrics Collectors
The need to monitor and control the system performances is not new. What is new is the trend of clever, lightweight, easy to setup, open source »
Experiments with Elastic’s Graph Tool
Elastic announced their Graph tool at ElastiCON 2016 (see presentation here). It’s part of the forthcoming X-Pack which bundles Graph along with other helper tools »
Forays 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 »
Forays 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 »
Three 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 »
Using 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 »
BI Forum 2015 Preview -- OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the ELK stack
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 »
An Introduction to Analysing ODI Runtime Data Through Elasticsearch and Kibana 4
An important part of working with ODI is analysing the performance when it runs, and identifying steps that might be inefficient as well as variations in »