I’ve been experimenting with Heka throughput recently, and have discovered a few log parsing tips and tricks that I thought were worth sharing. I ran tests on my Lenovo Thinkpad W530 laptop, which has four 2.8GHz cores, showing up as … Continue reading
Heka is a general purpose data processing tool, so it supports a variety of ways to get data into its processing pipeline. But, loading and parsing files from a filesystem is the primary use case for many users. We’ll talk … Continue reading
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote an enlightening post recently in which he expounds in some detail about the challenges of writing highly concurrent software. If you write software and you haven’t read it yet I recommend you do. It’s a very well written … Continue reading
The last few months have been bustling here in Heka-land. Our community of users and contributors has been growing steadily, and real world use is paying off in feedback and pull requests. Those of us who have been working full … Continue reading
The Mozila Services team is happy to announce the release of Heka 0.4, the latest version of our logs and metrics processing platform. We’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and adding features (see the changelog for a full report). … Continue reading
Those of us here on Mozilla Service’s Heka team were very pleased by the positive response and interest generated by our initial announcement about the project. And we’re even more pleased by the fact that some of you out there … Continue reading
We here on the Mozilla Services team are happy to announce our first beta release (v0.2b1) of Heka, a tool for high performance data gathering, analysis, monitoring, and reporting. Heka’s main component is hekad, a lightweight daemon program that can … Continue reading
