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I hate stuff running slow and I love Ansible. In this guide, I will share how achieved more than 50x speedup for executing simple ansible playbooks (which are meant to be fast , but they was not ). Measuring Ansible Tasks Execution Time Before optimizing whatever it is, we should have some good baseline… Continue reading Tuning Ansible For Maximum Performance
If you have made it through the initial filebeat installation , you may want to do some more interesting stuff with Filebeat. Here I will share some of my experience with it. Configuring Filebeat To Tail Files This was one of the first things I wanted to make Filebeat do. The idea of ‘tail‘… Continue reading Advanced Filebeat Configuration
Filebeat is a perfect tool for scraping your server logs and shipping them to Logstash or directly to ElasticSeearch. You will find some of my struggles with Filebeat and it’s proper configuration. Installing Filebeat under Centos/RHEL As with all ELK products the installation process is really easy and straight forward. Filebeat could be easily… Continue reading Installing And Configuring Filebeat On Centos/RHEL
Shell Calculate the size of all files from a given type/extension Recently I need something for doing such calculations and end up with the following command line (found on stackexchange), which will calculate the size summary for all “*.jpg” files in “some_directory”. find some_directory/ -type f -name ‘*.jpg’ -exec du -ch {} + |… Continue reading Linux Admin Daily Usage
ElasticSearch Example Queries Searching with wildcard query. Changing the size of the search result to 100 items. GET /filebeat-apache2-access-2019.01.10/_search { “size”:100, “query”: { “wildcard”: { “apache2.access.url” : “*CHAR(*” } } } Filter aggregations by minimum document count in the result by using min_doc_count setting. # will print aggregation buckets only if they consist of… Continue reading ElasticSearch CheatSheet
Security is one of the major “missing” things from the free ELK Stack compilation, so let’s talk about achieving it! Soon or later there will come time, when you may want some more “Secure” ElasticSearch cluster, and by “Secure” I mean some of the following : Encrypted communication between cluster nodes Encrypted communication between “Indexing… Continue reading ElasticSearch Security – Installing And Configuring Search-Guard How-To
If you want to spend good time with ElasticSearch you must choose very carefully your elasticsearch index field mappings. Proper field mappings are extremely important in order to be able to search properly inside your data. Keep in mind that ElasticSearch differs a lot between major versions. The current article is written for the current… Continue reading ElasticSearch Choosing Field Mappings
I’m going to skip the intro about Elasticsearch and it’s primary application (which is for search) and will go straight to the point. If you need some basic understanding of what is Elasticsearch and how to use it, I suggest you to start with the official documentation which is one of the best software documentations… Continue reading How ElasticSearch Works (Basic Concepts)
Two days ago (on November 08 2018) nasty WP exploit has been identified inside the popular GDPR wordpress plugin , that leads to privilege escalation. The plugin has more than 100 000 active installations. All versions prior 1.4.3 (except 1.4.3) are vulnerable to the exploit. What is the actual vulnerability ? More information about… Continue reading WordPress WP GDPR Compliance Privilege Escalation Exploit
We have some cPanel accounts with Cyrillic language set to default, which makes cPanel to return escaped utf8 messages while you operating with the API. One of the example messages I was getting , looked like this : \x{437}\x{430}\x{43f}\x{438}\x{441} \x{437}\x{430} \x{434}\x{43e}\x{43c}\x{435}\x{439}\x{43d} \x{201c} some-user-domain.com \x{201d} \x{432}\x{435}\x{447}\x{435} \x{441}\x{44a}\x{449}\x{435} \x{441}\x{442}\x{432}\x{443}\x{432}\x{430}. which is not very eye-friendly. Using simple… Continue reading Decoding \x{ZZZZ} utf8 strings inside perl