Cloud Native Python

Introduction to ELK stack

The ELK stack consists of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. All these components work together to collect all types of logs that could be system-level logs (that is, Syslog, RSYSLOG, and so on) or application-level logs (that is, access logs, error logs, and so on).

For the set up of the ELK stack, you can follow this article, where, along with the ELK stack, the Filebeat configuration is used to send logs to Elasticsearch:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elk-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04.