Building Microservices with Go

Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK)

Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana are pretty much the industry standard when it comes to logging verbose data. All of the output that would traditionally be streamed to a log file is stored in a central location that you can query with a graphical interface tool, Kibana.

If we look at our Docker Compose file, you will see three entries for our ELK stack:

elasticsearch:    image: elasticsearch:2.4.2    ports:      - 9200:9200      - 9300:9300    environment:      ES_JAVA_OPTS: "-Xms1g -Xmx1g"  kibana:    image: kibana:4.6.3    ports:      - 5601:5601    environment:      - ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://elasticsearch:9200    links:      - elasticsearch  logstash:    image: logstash    command: -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/    ports:      - 5000:5000  volumes: ...