Posts tagged elasticstack

Elastic Stack (formerly ELK) - Kibana (part 1)

Kibana is the web UI to visualize data in the data store called Elasticsearch. It’s the user facing component in the Elastic Stack, formerly called ELK stack. This post is based on previous posts which show the basics of Logstash and Elasticsearch and will talk about a few ways how Kibana can help you make sense out of your logs.

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Elastic Stack (formerly ELK) - Logstash (Part 2)

This is a follow-up to the previous post Elastic Stack (formerly ELK) - Logstash (Part 1). We continue were we left of the last time, and dive right into it. No intro, no explanation of concepts or terms, only configuration of Logstash pipelines.

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Elastic Stack (formerly ELK) - Logstash (Part 1)

In this post I’ll talk about the Logstash service, which is part of the Elastic Stack, formerly known as ELK stack. The purpose of Logstash is to ingest (logging) data, do some transformation or filtering on it, and output it into a data store like Elasticsearch. For details about Elasticsearch, you can get more information in my previous post Elastic Stack (formerly ELK) - Elasticsearch.

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Elastic Stack (formerly ELK) - Elasticsearch

When something goes wrong in an environment, the people trying to fix it mostly start by looking at the log files persisted on the local filesystem of the server. This gets more cumbersome the more server and services participate. Highly distributed applications, developed and deployed as microservices in a cloud environment exacerbate this too. A centralized logging server helps to ease the pain. In this post I’ll talk about the popular Elasticsearch service, which is part of the Elastic Stack, formerly known as ELK stack.

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