We fixed the Logstash configurations to allow a template to be applied to Elasticsearch during Logstash’s startup. Moreover, we created a Logstash template to configure the Logstash replica that applies to both single instances and clusters. The new indices matching the pattern logstash-* will automatically configure the replica with the range 0-1 using the index.auto_expand_replicas setting. For NetEye 4.8 we updated: elasticsearch, elasticsearch-autosetup,…
Read MoreWe corrected the installation instructions for the Tornado module. These had remained unchanged from version 4.7 when only the Tornado backend was installed. The updated instructions will also install the Tornado GUI. For NetEye 4.8 we updated: icingaweb2 to version 2.7.1_neteye1.49.0-1
Read MoreFix error message, adding a more explicit one, for report associated with a Contract with a SLA Type defined with an empty Operational Time. Fix bug related to empty graph in Analytics Dashboard, when changes are applied to services/hosts. For NetEye 4.8 we updated: icingaweb2-module-slm to version 2.1.3-1 icingaweb2-module-analytics to version 1.11.3-1
Read MoreIn this post we’re going to learn how to create an SLM report for a Business Process. Let’s get started. The concept here is to create a host that contains the checks for the Business Process we want to generate the report for, and then create the report for that host. Prerequisites: NetEye 4.7 or…
Read MoreFix a dependency bug related to a specific check provided by neteye-plugins. Fixed logrotate definitions that broke the correct execution of logrotate. For NetEye 4.8 we updated: neteye-plugins to version 1.20.2-1 telegraf to version 1.8.1_neteye1.3.1-1 smstools to version 3.1.15_neteye1.0.1-12 tornado to version 0.18.1-1
Read MoreFix bug where a report looked broken to a user, because of adjustments created by a user with higher permissions. For NetEye 4.8 we updated: icingaweb2-module-slm to version 2.1.2-1
Read MoreDuring NetEye development, the R&D team relies on a Continuous Integration system (based on automated tools), that helps us identify errors, gaps and missing requirements, or in other words, that checks whether the actual results match the expected results. Developing high quality software means not only staying on the safe side by finding and correcting…
Read MoreFix bug where the Event Adjustment “Edit” function allows the user to set start equal to end, creating an event with duration zero. Improvement of error messages in SLM Event Adjustment and of SLM event query for report generation. For NetEye 4.8 we updated: icingaweb2-module-slm to version 2.1.1-3
Read MoreTwo screens for monitoring, ticketing, event management, CRM, project management and Outlook, and at least another two screens for all the applications that you need to manage… that often seems to be the minimum for working efficiently. However, you probably don’t want your office to look like a NASA flight control room… To organize the…
Read MoreThe Service Level Management (SLM) module was introduced in NetEye 4.7. Thanks to this module, it is now possible to define customers, service level agreement types and contracts, which permits users to easily manage the agreements they have with their customers in terms of availability of their hosts and services. Tightly coupled with the SLM…
Read MoreDo you have a NetEye server, and want to monitor your VMware ESXi Infrastructure? Nothing easier than that using the InfluxDB and Grafana Modules of NetEye, along with a Telegraf agent to deliver the data into Influx. Starting with version 1.6.x of Telegraf, there’s a plugin for querying for data from a vSphere server, but…
Read MoreFix bug where n-monthly calculation parsing was not working properly when the first calculation period within the timeframe ended at the end of the year. For NetEye 4.7 we updated: slmd to version 0.7.2-1
Read MoreIn a previous Blog, I described some basic steps to debug problems with the Elastic Stack. In this blog post, I want to highlight another behavior that might occur when your Elastic Stack cluster is in a green state, but it is not able to write new logs. This situation usually happens when there is…
Read MoreIn a previous blog I explored beats such as Icingabeat and presented an overview of the new features present in NetEye since version 4.6. I’d like to explore the following use case: collect some logs from Elasticsearch, Logstash, the operating system that hosts NetEye, and MySQL using beats (Filebeat), all in order to show the…
Read MoreElastic 7.3 is coming to NetEye 4.8. In order to prepare for this significant change, you must first update Log Manager on NetEye 4.7 to receive the Elastic 6.8.2 update that will set up the necessary migrations for updating Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. In addition to the ELK stack, SearchGuard will also be updated to…
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