"I keep coming back for the technical content and the personal networking opportunities. I attend for career development."
LISA '13 Attendee
"I use LISA to benchmark the SA activities in my company."
LISA '13 Attendee
"LISA is the place where industry best practices and cutting-edge research come together to advance system administration."
Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University
"LISA is the conference that I send my system administrators to so they can bring the latest tools and techniques back to the rest of the team. Much of our current environment can be traced directly back to LISA."
Cory Lueninghoener, Deputy Group Leader of Production High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
"LISA is where professionals share what's hot in designing, building, and maintaining critical systems."
Tom Limoncelli, author, speaker, and system administrator
"LISA is where professionals share what's hot in designing, building, and maintaining critical systems."
Tom Limoncelli, author, speaker, and system administrator
"LISA is where I find direction for evolving the my core professional skills."
LISA '13 Attendee
"LISA is the conference that I send my system administrators to so they can bring the latest tools and techniques back to the rest of the team. Much of our current environment can be traced directly back to LISA."
Cory Lueninghoener, Deputy Group Leader of Production High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Information from LISA helps us push the envelope on automation and scaling, allowing a team of four to manage over 3000 Firefox build and test systems running 15 different operating systems."
Amy Rich, Manager of Release Engineering Operations at Mozilla
LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
Elasticsearch is a distrbuted and reliable data store that can be used for a variety of purposes. One use of particular interest to system administrators is as a storage engine for Logstash. This tutorial covers how to implement an Elasticsearch cluster and use Logstash and related tools to store and query log data (syslog, web logs, etc).
Who should attend:
System administrators who need a tool to aggregate and examine log data across their environment.
Take back to work:
Participants will leave the tutorial ready to implement and manage an Elasticsearch cluster, store and analyze their logs and other data with Logstash, and methods for using Elasticsearch with other data.
Topics include:
An introduction to Elasticsearch
How to implement and manage a replicated and distributed data store.
How to use Logstash to store log files (or other time-stamped data)
Tools for querying and analyzing those logs
Ways to use and abuse Elasticsearch for other types of data
