Say you’re using the SIEM Module in NetEye and are deploying the Elasticsearch Agent to your clients. You’d surely like to know if those agents are still sending data and are still connected to the Elastic Fleet server. I had this problem recently and came up with a new monitoring plugin that uses the Kibana-API…
Read MoreHave you ever thought about how to monitor your NetEye system or other critical applications in a network failure scenario? To manage this scenario, in some customer cases some solutions have been implemented using SMS notifications, thus relying on the support of the mobile network as a notification channel.But what happens when even the mobile…
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In my previous blog post, we saw how it’s possible to index some documents that we created by crawling our NetEye User Guide, then applying the ELSER model in Elasticsearch to create a bag of words for searching that takes into account the context of the various documents. Moreover, we also performed a simple query…
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Once upon a time (in fact it was just a month ago, but it sounds more dramatic this way) I had the opportunity to attend a webinar about Vector Search, Generative AI, and modern NLP by the Elastic Team. One of the topics that was touched on during the webinar was ELSER , Elastic’s new…
Read MoreThe event of the year, the NetEye User Group, is back! The User group is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year the NetEye Usergroup took place in Rocca Sveva, a centuries old villa located in…
Read More…also this year, Würth Phoenix & Gravitate organized the annual Usergroup DACH 2023 in Nuremberg. The Usergroup is not only a chance to inform our customers about new products and releases, but also an occasion to meet and exchange feedback and ideas. This year’s NetEye Usergroup took place in Nuremberg in the Romantik Hotel Rottner,…
Read MoreDo you ever need to reboot or do maintenance on your Windows Server? Then if the server is monitored by NetEye, you’ll surely want to mark it in downtime so as not to have notifications sent out for problems arising due to maintenance, and/or to be able to have the correct SLA marked for your…
Read MoreThe event dedicated to the NetEye community is back again! A taste of innovation! Discover the new trends in monitoring and service management seasoned with a pinch of Cybersecurity. Taste the nuances of the various successful NetEye projects and be guided by the scent of curiosity for the latest technological trends. Appointment on 28th of…
Read MoreCurrently, deploying an Icinga 2 Agent on a Linux system can be intricate, given the substantial variations in the process across different releases or OS families. For instance: Fortunately, there’s no need to develop and maintain a custom script to manage these diverse scenarios. We can leverage the readily available Ansible Plugins for this purpose….
Read MoreThe Fleet Management feature was automatically enabled with NetEye release 4.30, and with the current 4.31 version all the Elastic Stack packages will be upgraded to major version 8. These two milestones will permit us to centrally manage log ingestion using the new Elastic Agents (the evolutions of Beats Agents) and forget all the custom…
Read MoreScenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Icinga 2 checks on remote hosts and devices. Several Icinga 2 checks support an historical view of the status. An example is the firewall interface performance status below, which displays a Performance Graph: Getting a better overview All the graph data generated by the…
Read MoreIn one of my previous posts I mentioned the importance of downtime scheduling and shared an interesting example of a PowerShell script for managing downtime in Windows environments. Recently a customer asked me how to manage downtime with a similar solution, but for several hundred Linux servers monitored under NetEye. The reason is very simple:…
Read MoreWhen it comes to upgrading and updating NetEye, many users face a common challenge: the time required for downloading the new package versions. This process can be influenced by connection speed, the number of nodes to update, and sometimes even the number of NetEye systems to manage simultaneously. Fortunately, NetEye 4.30 introduces an effective solution:…
Read MoreAs you all know NetEye uses MariaDB as its database. With the nep-monitoring-core module of the NetEye Extension Packs (NEP), the following aspects of MariaDB are monitored: These checks are performed with a default time interval (check_interval) of 180s. To have real time control of many aspects of the MariaDB database operation, I suggest installing…
Read MoreIn my previous post, we saw how it’s possible to build a simple Grafana Data Source Plugin, which we can use to read data from whatever source we’d like to use. In particular, we used it to read data from a simple web service we created so we could expose data containing some outliers. In…
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