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Agile Metrics in Action
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Agile Metrics in Action

by Christopher Davis
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
8h 50m
English
Manning Publications
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Appendix A. DIY analytics using ELK

This appendix covers

  • Reviewing the overall architecture of an agile metrics collection and analytics system
  • Setting up an ELK server
  • Building a data-collection application using Grails
  • Installing the data collector on the ELK server

In this appendix I’ll walk you through setting up a powerful analytics system using the ELK stack (EC, Logstash, and Kibana). You can download the basic stack from the EC website. You can also get the setup I’ve used for this book on GitHub at github.com/cwhd/measurementor.

Let’s start by looking at the high-level component diagram in figure A.1 to get an idea of the pieces you need to build. You’ll need to write some scripts to collect data, set up a database to store ...

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