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Is there one website that contains all relevant DevOps news and gets updated on a daily basis?

There is a protocol for this: RSS, Rich Site Summary. Technically, there are 3 protocols RSS, RSS2 and Atom, but most readers support all of them, and many servers mix RSS and RSS2 features. First, ...
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What are best practices for implementing and using Elastic in an organization?

One best practice would be to log everything to the same location. Your "Current idea" suggests that you'd be running the Elastic stack locally, which is great for a local development environment, but ...
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Is there one website that contains all relevant DevOps news and gets updated on a daily basis?

Probably not 100% comprehensive, but DevOps.com might fit the bill?
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elasticsearch-fluentd helm chart on Openshift 3.11 pod failing

Changing logging driver form journald to json has fixed it. I edited /etc/sysconfig/docker, and set OPTIONS='--selinux-enabled --log-driver=json-file --signature-verification=false' Then restarted ...
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Logstash multiple pipelines going into same index

There are two ways to accomplish this, though one of them was only available recently. The old-school version, the one you can do as far back as Logstash 1.5, is to pay attention to tags and use ...
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Is there one website that contains all relevant DevOps news and gets updated on a daily basis?

I've had good success with DZone: https://dzone.com/devops-tutorials-tools-news. This is a nice mix of articles, tutorials, and various publications. For Docker specific updates/news I follow: https:...
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Is there one website that contains all relevant DevOps news and gets updated on a daily basis?

I realize these cover much broader ground, but I see lots of useful DevOps-related stories on https://slashdot.org/ and Hacker News. I also have created saved searches in Google News.
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AWS: Restoring database snapshot to different environment

Restoring a snapshot simply creates a new RDS instance. So if you restore the prod DB snapshot to staging then you will be creating a new RDS instance with the restored data in it. If both of the RDS ...
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Unable to connect to Elasticsearch [ Error: Request Timeout after 30000ms ]

Put the following setting in /etc/elasticsearch.yml and it will work. network.host: 0.0.0.0 discovery.type: single-node
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Store and analyize logs data from diffenrent application

Can you not use Kibana with Elasticsearch or does that not give you the 'advanced' features you need? Have you looked at this connector for ES and Tableau? https://www.dremio.com/tutorials/unlocking-...
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Is there one website that contains all relevant DevOps news and gets updated on a daily basis?

I'm also a fan of DZone. Another good place is DevOps.com Also, the Sonatype blog and All Day DevOps regularly feature DevOps news, too [disclosure, I contribute to all of these]
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Is there one website that contains all relevant DevOps news and gets updated on a daily basis?

I'd add https://opensource.com/ (from Redhat) and the O"reilly Newsletter related to Infrastructure and Ops : https://conferences.oreilly.com/infrastructure-ops/io-ca
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Is there one website that contains all relevant DevOps news and gets updated on a daily basis?

There is https://www.infoq.com/devops/ which is a good news feed. I get the newsletter and it is a good overview of trends, etc. I also check https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/ regularly, but that ...
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Autorun ElasticSearch with Docker Compose

https://github.com/elastic/stack-docker/blob/master/docker-compose.yml This is an official docker-compose for running Elasticsearch, and will make a good starting point for whatever you're trying to ...
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How effective is ELK than other Monitoring tools?

ELK is pretty ineffective as a monitoring tool in a default configuration as it doesn't do monitoring - only reporting. ELK can only provide monitoring and alerting abilities if you configure ...
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How to perform logging of Ansible crons in Kibana?

Ansible is an automation tool, so it can automate things you can do by hands. But as far as I know no existing cron-like services support sending logs to elasticsearch (Kibana is just a viewer, btw) ...
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How good are heartbeat, elasticsearch and kibana as a monitoring/alerting solution as a replacement for Nagios?

I haven't tried it myself, but in Alarms management with Elasticsearch and Kibana someone recommended Elastalert
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Is it possible to load balance TLS/SSL based logstash communication to elasticsearch?

You can do this a couple of ways, but I have never seen anyone do this with a CNAME. One option, if you have control over your IP addressing is to use BGP to fail-over (or load balance) an IP to ...
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Data sent from Logstash via elastic output plugin not showing in Kibana, but file output plugin works fine - what am I doing wrong?

Being unfamiliar with Kibana, I was not aware of the time constraint on data on the default search/display of just 15 minutes. The data coming in was timestamped (@timestamp key) via the 'date' plugin ...
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What software ihandles shipping to ElasticSearch the standard output of a .NET Core web application running in a container?

How do I send a structured message? If you want structured messages check out some of the recommended third party logging options. Some of these options have built-in support for Elasticsearch ...
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Sending Exceptions to Elastic Stack via REST

It depends on what you're trying to accomplish but IMO if you're interested in reliably getting your exceptions you probably want something between Elasticsearch and your app - a queueing or logging ...
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Elastic Beanstalk give error Root Object doesn't exist in Jenkins

This error occurs because you used a variable ($) and wildcard name (*.war). Elastic Beanstalk plugin does not support Variable or wildcard name in the Value. I suggest a use full path of Jenkins ...
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Easiest way to manage an elasticsearch cluster in GCP?

We have been using elastic/helm-charts for more than a year for our product, and it is easy to manage and scale on-demand. Let me know if you need any help in deploying the helm chart.
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Connecting jaeger with elasticsearch backend storage on kubernetes cluster

When resolving a service in Kubernetes, Assume a Service named foo in the Kubernetes namespace bar. A Pod running in namespace bar can look up this service by simply doing a DNS query for foo. A ...
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Backing up an ephemeral Elasticsearch installation

ElasticSearch can backup itself when told to do so via an API call. You just need to configure a destination, and optionally credentials, for example you make ElasticSearch create snapshots of its ...
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How to monitor ELK Stack Load?

Load can mean a lot with an ELK stack. For ingestion load, the logstash parsing side, you're looking at a combination of one or two things: CPU load on the ingestion boxes. If used, back-pressure in ...
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Executing a command in running docker swarm service

I suggest making a cronjob container that does the SQL dump and elastic index using docker exec commands toward the corresponding containers.

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