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04 Mar 2017 » apexbeat at Elasticsearch Meetup in Zürich

This week we had the chance to present apexbeat at the Elasticsearch Meetup in Zürich. Jens talked about apex’ generic approach to target the critical spots on java applications while using apexbeat to link the harvested results to the elastic stack for further processing.

03 Feb 2017 » Using APEX with Elasticsearch - Dockerized Demo

In the last release we introduced apexbeat - a community beat for Elasticsearch to link Java applications via APEX. We added a new example showcasing the popular Spring Petclinic application.

15 Jan 2017 » v0.7 binary released with Collector SDK and ApexBeats

We are happy to announce the release of version 0.7. It includes support for ELK beats and is distributed with the Collector SDK.

07 Jan 2017 » APEX toolkit v0.6 binary release

We are currently refactoring the collector agent and will also release a new repository structure for the API and SDK. In the meantime we will provide binary releases until the preparations are finished.

31 Oct 2016 » APEX toolkit launched

When first discussing and prototyping APEX we were looking to establish a better monitoring of our Java based applications. Too often we have seen software and projects getting out of control because nobody could get a clue what was really going on inside in detail. Reading the logs was not sufficient because the information we looked for was like searching the needle in the haystack - or worse - it simply was not put out.