Podcast: Tools to Monitor Solr, Manage Logs & Analyze Search Trends

Sematext Founder & President Otis Gospodnetic recently spoke with LucidWorks Chief of Product, Will Hayes as part of their SolrCluster podcast series.  Otis and Will discussed tools that Sematext has built to help monitor Solr and other stacks, manage and analyze logs, and analyze search trends.  They also discuss Solr/SolrCloud and Elasticsearch, their APIs, developer friendliness, as well as the general direction that search and big data industry leaders are moving toward around data acquisition and discovery as data increasingly grows.

Go here to listen to the podcast.  It runs about 36 minutes.  Enjoy!

Going to Be in Austin on April 2nd? Then Check Out BV:IO

Live or work in Austin?  Like small conferences filled with smart, interesting technical people, a roster of great speakers, and innovation everywhere you look?  Great — you’ll fit right in a Bazaarvoice’s first ever public technical conference and hackathon to drive innovation in the social commerce space.  Get all the BV:IO event details here.

And since you are reading this blog, there’s a good chance you know about our founder and CEO, Otis Gospodnetic, and his expertise with all things Search and Big Data.  Otis has been invited to speak, and he goes on at 1:30 pm on Wednesday, April 2nd.  Otis will speak about “Open Source Search Evolution” and he’ll be available before and after the talk at the Sematext sponsor table to say hello and talk about SPM, Logsene, Site Search Analytics, Solr, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, NYC vs. Austin tech scenes, Brooklyn Lager vs. Lone Star…and whatever else you bring to our table.

If you’re thinking of attending BV:IO drop us a line at mick.emmett@sematext.com.  Hope to see you there!

Announcement: Coming Up in Site Search Analytics

Have you checked out Site Search Analytics yet?  If not, and if you think that gaining insight into user search behavior and experience is valuable information, then we’ve got something for you that’s battle-tested and ready to go.

This year we are adding some killer new features that will make SSA even more useful.  So, if you want to be enjoying benefits like:

• Viewing real-time graphs showing search and click-through rates
• Awareness of your top queries, top zero-hit queries, most seen and clicked on hits, etc.
• Having a mechanism to perform search relevance A/B tests and a relevance feedback mechanism
• Not having to develop, set up, manage or scale all the infrastructure needed for query and click log analysis
• And many others — here is a full list of features and benefits

…then you will love the new functionality we have on the way.  After all, how can you improve search quality if you don’t measure it first and keep track of it?

Site Search Analytics

Sound interesting?  Then check out a live demo.  SSA is 100% focused on helping you to improve the search experience of your customers and prospects.  And a better search experience translates into more traffic to your web site and greater awareness of your business.