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Hosted OpenTelemetry on Logit.io

Hosted OpenTelemetry on Logit.io: one OTLP endpoint for logs, traces and metrics

New Logs stacks on Logit.io now get a hosted OTLP endpoint at {stackId}-otel.logit.io. Send logs, traces and metrics straight from an OpenTelemetry SDK or zero-code agent, or point a Collector you already run at it.

Hosted OpenSearch MCP

Introducing Hosted OpenSearch MCP for any MCP-compatible AI assistant

Query your Logit.io OpenSearch data from any MCP-compatible AI assistant, such as Cursor or Claude, with a hosted, read-only MCP endpoint and no local MCP process to run. Included in the 14-day free trial.

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Server Monitoring: A Comprehensive Guide

Monitor servers for uptime, performance, and security. Track logs, metrics, and APM with Logit.io to detect issues early and optimise infrastructure efficiently

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From sign-up to first searchable log: the new Logs onboarding

From sign-up to first searchable log: the new Logs onboarding

Walk through Logs Getting Started from Category to Launch, paste a Filebeat config, wait for searchable logs and verify in OpenSearch Dashboards.

Send .NET Serilog logs to Hosted OpenTelemetry alongside Logstash

Send .NET Serilog logs to Hosted OpenTelemetry alongside Logstash

Send Serilog logs through Logstash and Hosted OpenTelemetry. Tested .NET 8 setup, Basic auth, trace correlation and a practical cutover checklist.

Hosted OpenSearch MCP: query your logs from any MCP-compatible AI assistant

Hosted OpenSearch MCP: query your logs from any MCP-compatible AI assistant

Connect any MCP-compatible AI assistant to Logit.io logs. Set Basic auth, configure Hosted OpenSearch MCP and verify your first log search.

Export the Logit.io audit log and keep it searchable in OpenSearch

Export the Logit.io audit log and keep it searchable in OpenSearch

Export the Logit.io stack audit log or pull it from the API, then ship it with Filebeat into logstash-* so who-changed-what sits beside your logs.

Filebeat filestream configs that pass test config but still fail

Filebeat filestream configs that pass test config but still fail

Six Filebeat filestream mistakes that pass filebeat test config, tested on 8.19 and 9.5: what breaks, the fix, and how to verify it on your stack.

AI-assisted log investigation on Logit.io today: Hosted OpenSearch MCP and onboarding AI prompts

AI-assisted log investigation on Logit.io today: Hosted OpenSearch MCP and onboarding AI prompts

Elastic has announced an AI SRE agent in private preview. Here is what Logit.io offers for AI-assisted log investigation right now, how to set it up, and how to check the answers your assistant gives you.

Log ingestion history: hourly counts and 7-day trends

Reading your ingestion history: hourly log counts, the partial hour and 7-day trends

The Logit.io ingestion card shows hourly log counts, a dotted partial hour and a 7-day view. Here is how each number is built and how to check it against your own data.

OpenSearch Serverless time series collections vs a managed Logit.io stack for logs

OpenSearch Serverless time series collections vs a managed Logit.io stack for logs

How OpenSearch Serverless time series collections compare with a managed Logit.io stack for logs on cost, operations, lock-in and support.

Firewall dashboards for FortiGate, PAN-OS and Zscaler

FortiGate, PAN-OS and Zscaler dashboards: get firewall logs into the fields they read

The Dashboard Library now has FortiGate, PAN-OS and Zscaler packs. Here is which fields each one reads, the Filebeat module settings that produce them, and how to check your data before you install.

What the Dashboard Library ticks for you

Dashboard Library: why some dashboards arrive ticked and others don't

How the Dashboard Library checks your Logs stack before you install, using the Nginx pack and the Filebeat nginx module, and what to fix when a dashboard isn't pre-selected.

Let OpenSearch backpressure reach the shipper

OpenSearch 429 bulk rejections: let backpressure reach your shippers

Trace es_rejected_execution_exception to the node that is full, then let Logstash and Filebeat absorb the backpressure on disk instead of dropping logs.

Fix the producer before rebuilding the index

Don't delete the index to fix OpenSearch field type conflicts

Trace mapper_parsing_exception to the shipper sending mixed types. Fix Logstash first, then deal with conflicting daily indices on Hosted OpenSearch.

Stop OpenSearch mapping explosions

Don't raise total_fields.limit first: stop OpenSearch mapping explosions

Trace runaway fields to their source, shape Logstash events and constrain mappings before increasing the field limit on Hosted OpenSearch.

Fix Grok parse failures with Logit’s Grok Debugger

Fix Logstash Grok parse failures with Logit’s Grok Debugger

When Logstash tags _grokparsefailure, stop guessing tokens. Paste the failing line into Logit’s Grok Debugger, read the longest prefix, fix the captures, then copy the filter into your Logs pipeline.

Hosted OpenSearch retention and ISM planning

Retention days drive Hosted OpenSearch node count — plan ISM before you buy nodes

On Logit.io Hosted OpenSearch, retention days × daily primary ingest set the store that must fit on nodes. Measure CAT sizes, encode hot→warm→delete in ISM, then buy nodes — not the other way around.

Instrument with an AI prompt, check with MCP

Instrument with an AI prompt, then check the first data with MCP

Use the Copy AI prompt button in Logit.io onboarding to have Cursor or Claude add OpenTelemetry to your app, then confirm the first logs arrived with Hosted OpenSearch MCP, without leaving the editor.

Investigating production logs with Hosted OpenSearch MCP

Investigating Production Logs with Hosted OpenSearch MCP

A practitioner walk-through of investigating a post-deploy error spike from Cursor or Claude Desktop using Logit.io’s hosted, read-only OpenSearch MCP endpoint — with real tool calls, safety notes, and failure modes.

Logit.io onboarding

Every integration, ready to paste: inside Logit.io's new onboarding

A walk through Logit.io's new stack onboarding: five steps from picking a source to launching on real data, with configs that arrive filled in with your stack's endpoint and credentials.

OpenTelemetry Collector on Linux and Windows servers

OpenTelemetry Collector on Linux and Windows servers: system logs and host metrics

Install a pinned otelcol-contrib on Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Amazon Linux or Windows Server, then ship system logs and host metrics to Logit.io through one OTLP/HTTP exporter.

OpenTelemetry for .NET on Logit.io

OpenTelemetry for .NET: an appsettings.json that works as pasted

Send logs, traces and metrics from an ASP.NET Core app to Logit.io with four appsettings.json keys and one UseOtlpExporter call, including the protocol setting the .NET exporter needs.

Point OpenTelemetry at Logit.io

Already on OpenTelemetry? Point it at Logit.io by changing three settings

If your services already export OTLP, moving them to Logit.io is an endpoint, a protocol and an auth header. Here's what each one should be, and the edge cases that cause 401s and silent drops.

ELK to Hosted OpenSearch migration

Cut over self-managed ELK to Hosted OpenSearch on Logit.io

An engineer’s cutover from self-managed Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats onto Logit.io Hosted OpenSearch: the 7.10.2 snapshot fork, shipper version checks, templates versus ISM, and a dual-run checklist.

Datadog Log Management to Hosted OpenSearch migration

Migrate Datadog Log Management to Hosted OpenSearch on Logit.io

A practitioner cutover guide from Datadog Log Management onto Logit.io Hosted OpenSearch: landing-pad choice, shipper swap, Discover fields, monitor parity gaps, managed limits, and honest product pricing.

Splunk to Hosted OpenSearch migration

Migrate from Splunk to Hosted OpenSearch on Logit.io

A practitioner guide to migrating from Splunk onto Logit.io Hosted OpenSearch: stack choice, shipper cutover, indexes and Discover, alert parity gaps, managed limits, and per-node pricing.

OpenSearch security

EU data residency for Hosted OpenSearch on Logit.io

How Logit.io account-level data storage regions work for EU Hosted OpenSearch: first-stack lock, Stack Settings checks, trial changes, and when a second account is required.

Anonymised OpenSearch ops facts

Anonymised OpenSearch ops facts from Logit.io Hosted OpenSearch

How to extract and anonymise Hosted OpenSearch ops facts with CAT APIs and /_nodes/stats — plus a labeled appendix of product-true and planning-assumption quotes you can cite without inventing lab throughput.

OpenSearch ingestion capacity planning

Plan Hosted OpenSearch ingestion for 50 GB to 1 TB per day on Logit.io

Capacity-planning methodology for ~50 GB, ~250 GB, and ~1 TB per day on Logit.io Hosted OpenSearch — primary-byte sizing, planning scenarios, and CAT/API measurement steps without invented lab throughput.

OpenSearch shard sizing on Logit.io

OpenSearch shard sizing on Logit.io Hosted OpenSearch

Measure primary shard size with CAT APIs on Logit.io Hosted OpenSearch, decide when ~10GB primaries should grow, and avoid mega-shards, tiny-shard floods, and yellow replica math.

Winlogbeat 8 vs 9 on Logit.io

Winlogbeat 8 vs 9 migration on Logit.io

Upgrade Winlogbeat 8.x hosts that already ship to Logit.io to 9.x without breaking Logstash SSL endpoints — registry path moves, config checklist, canary Discover checks, and failure modes.

Windows Event Logs to OpenSearch

Five ways Windows Event Logs reach OpenSearch on Logit.io

Field-level Winlogbeat, Elastic Agent, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry, and WEF paths that land Windows Event Logs in Hosted OpenSearch on Logit.io — configs, Discover fields, and failure modes.

First Azure Logs on Logit.io

First Azure Logs on Logit.io

Stream Azure Monitor logs through Event Hub into a Logit Logs stack with the Logstash azure_event_hub input, then prove message and resourceId in Discover.

OpenSearch high-ingestion settings

Production OpenSearch high-ingestion settings on Logit.io

Concrete Hosted OpenSearch ingest settings to tune before you scale nodes: refresh_interval, shards and replicas, translog durability, bulk sizing, and templates — grounded in Logit.io docs.

First CloudWatch Logs on Logit.io

First CloudWatch Logs on Logit.io

Ship one CloudWatch Log Group to a Logit Logs stack with the Lambda API shipper, then prove logGroupName, logStreamName, and message in Discover.

OpenSearch security

UK data residency for Hosted OpenSearch on Logit.io

How Logit.io account-level data storage regions work for UK Hosted OpenSearch: first-stack lock, Stack Settings checks, trial changes, and when a second account is required.

First Grafana Dashboard on Logit.io

First Grafana Dashboard on Logit.io

After Telegraf is already scraping into a Metrics stack, open Launch Metrics, keep the Prometheus datasource, and build one host CPU dashboard you can save and alert on.

First APM Traces on Logit.io

First APM Traces on Logit.io

Stand up a Logit.io APM stack, ship OpenTelemetry spans over OTLP with Basic auth, and prove the first useful trace in Jaeger Search.

Developer API alert rule from CI

Developer API from CI: Resolve a Stack and Create an Alert Rule

Authenticate to dashboard.logit.io with an x-api-key, resolve a Logs stack from CI, enable alerting, and POST a frequency alert rule with newFileName and templateFileName.

First Wazuh Alerts on Logit.io

First Wazuh Alerts on Logit.io

Ship Wazuh alert JSON with Filebeat into a Logit.io Logs stack over Logstash SSL, then confirm the host IDS stream in OpenSearch Dashboards Discover.

First Fluent Bit Logs on Logit.io

First Fluent Bit Logs on Logit.io

Create a Logs stack, install Fluent Bit from Install Integration, and confirm HTTP output over Logstash SSL in OpenSearch Dashboards Discover.

First Elastic Agent Logs on Logit.io

First Elastic Agent Logs on Logit.io

Create a Logs stack, install Elastic Agent in standalone mode from Install Integration, and confirm system metrics or filestream logs in OpenSearch Dashboards Discover.

First Windows Event Logs with Winlogbeat on Logit.io

First Windows Event Logs with Winlogbeat on Logit.io

Create a Logs stack, install Winlogbeat from Install Integration, and search Application, System, or Security events in OpenSearch Dashboards Discover.

First Prometheus Metrics on Logit.io

First Prometheus Metrics on Logit.io

Create an Infrastructure Metrics stack, scrape one Prometheus /metrics endpoint with Telegraf, and check the series in Grafana Explore.

Centralised log management

First Logs on Logit.io in About 15 Minutes

Create a Logit.io log stack, ship a few lines with Filebeat, and confirm they appear in OpenSearch Dashboards Discover — a short first-value path, not a full install runbook.

ElastAlert rule

Your First Useful Log Alert on Logit.io

You already have logs in a Logit.io stack — create one ElastAlert 2 rule that pages someone on an error spike or HTTP 500 flood, then link to the docs for YAML and destinations.

Kubernetes logging

Kubernetes Logging the Logit Way

Ship Kubernetes container logs to a Logit.io log stack with the Filebeat DaemonSet the docs recommend — managed Logstash and OpenSearch Dashboards, without self-hosting Elasticsearch.

OpenSearch cluster

Log Stack vs Hosted OpenSearch Cluster: How to Choose

Choose a Logit.io log management stack when you need log observability, or a dedicated Hosted OpenSearch cluster when you need app search and cluster-centric workloads — without overselling either.

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OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing Implementation Guide

Complete guide to implementing distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry for microservices observability and performance monitoring.

telecoms observability

Manufacturing IoT Monitoring: Complete Enterprise Guide

Master manufacturing IoT monitoring strategies. Complete guide covering industrial sensors, predictive maintenance, and production optimization.

media observability

Media Streaming Performance: Complete Enterprise Guide

Master media streaming performance monitoring. Complete guide covering video optimization, CDN management, and viewer experience analytics.

server monitoring tools

Gaming Infrastructure Monitoring: Complete Enterprise Guide

Master gaming infrastructure monitoring strategies. Complete guide covering game performance, player analytics, and scalability management.