December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
8h 30m
English
As we saw, one of the fundamental tools for monitoring is logging. For microservices, there will be an astounding number of logs generated that are sometimes not even comprehensible to humans. The ELK stack (also referred to as the elastic stack) is the most popular log management platform. It is also a good candidate for microservice monitoring because of its ability to aggregate, analyze, visualize, and monitor. The ELK stack is a toolchain that includes three distinct tools, namely Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Let's look at them one by one to understand their role in the ELK stack.
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