Effective DevOps with AWS

Using Kibana to visualize logs

At this point, our application logs are going to ElasticSearch via Kinesis Firehose. One of the best ways to access our logs now is to use Kibana. You can find the URL of your Kibana instance by looking at the output of the ElasticSearch CloudFormation stack we launched earlier:

$ aws cloudformation describe-stacks \      --stack-name es \      --query 'Stacks[0].Outputs'[    {        "Description": "Kibana url",        "OutputKey": "Kibana",        "OutputValue": "https://search-logsx7c2g5zqbrtpxotpv3b3jw2uk4.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com/_plugin/kibana/"    },    {        "Description": "Domain Arn",        "OutputKey": "DomainArn",        "OutputValue": "arn:aws:es:us-east-1:511912822958:domain/logs"    }]

Using your browser, open the Kibana URL:

This brings you to a screen ...