The team headed by Jindřich Zechmeister managed to create a functional Data Lake, which is used to store operational records (logs) for IT service administrators at Masaryk University. Thanks to a successful project, they do not have to deal with their own storage and significantly save time and resource capacity.
The Data Lake was created in cooperation with the CESNET Development Fund, which also financed the project for the most part. Thanks to this, a complete solution was created for the collection of logs on stations and servers, their storage and further analysis. It uses S3 CESNET storage and components from Elasticsearch B.V. The Data Lake will thus make it possible to process logs faster and react to events, but also save administrators the trouble of collecting logs and their long-term retention.
And that's not all. “We've created an analytics layer on top of the data in the Data Lake to make it easier for service managers to work with the data. It will help them monitor data in real time and evaluate it immediately, but in the event of incidents they can analyze it retrospectively and look for answers to their questions," project manager Jindřich Zechmeister explains other advantages of the chosen solution. The newly created Data Lake will also be included in the IT MUNI service catalog, where other potential applicants for centralized data storage can find it.
The results of the project in the form of created instructions can be viewed in the git repository at this address.
After a year spent abroad at The University of Texas at San Antonio, our colleague Martin Husák from the cybersecurity team CSIRT-MU returned to us. He was able to complete his postdoc internship in a research group in the USA thanks to a grant to support the mobility of promising researchers. What exactly does he focus on in his research? And why does he think Brno is the best city in the world?
In an interview with Vice-Rector Radim Polčák, we discussed changes in IT at Masaryk University. We discussed how the university is adapting to new needs and how it manages funding and maintaining a high level of IT services. We also touched on the Vice-Rector's view on the importance of the adaptation of the Institute of Computing to the University's strategic plan and the role of IT during crisis situations such as the recent covid-19 pandemic. We also discussed future plans, including the relocation of the Institute of Computer Science and its involvement in research activities and projects such as EOSC.
