Announcing the release of a book on deploying log management with LogStash, available as PDF, ePub, or Kindle edition

Why Nagios and its kin fail virtualised and cloud environments, and why a fresh paradigm is needed to handle the new scale

A free sample chapter is now available covering how to get logs into LogStash without using the LogStash agent

Multi-part series on lessons from self publishing

How to add captions to delimited Markdown code blocks so that Pandoc emits LaTeX listings with both syntax highlighting and a caption

Nan Liu and Dan Bode have written a whole book on developing Puppet types and providers, available on Kindle and in print

Announcing a mailing list for updates and announcements about The Logstash Book, prompted by a reader pointing out it was overdue