This is the first of three posts about Elastic Stack.
Introduction
At a glance, Elastic Stack is a web based search engine. It’s like Google. For your logs.
Elastic stack contains multiple components.
- Elasticsearch stores your data, and eats all your disk space.
- Kibana, the web interface. It looks nice, sends queries to Elasticsearch, and presents the results in a readable way.
- Logstash, reads logs, receives logs from remote systems, runs the logs through filters to make structured ... [continue reading]