Monday, May 14, 2018

ELK (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) Overview

Introduction
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ELK Stack is one of the tools used in DevOps world when it comes to log shipping
and monitoring. Below is a quick information on what comprises the stack and how
it looks like.

Elastic Stack
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Elasticsearh - search and analytics engine (heart of the stack)
Logstash     - transports data from sources to elasticsearch
Kibana       - provides graphs and charts to visualize data
Beats        - lightweight shipper of logs (installed on clients)


















* 100% open source
* no enterprise edition
* x-pack - installs other elastic product

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