Log management
Log management is one of the key use cases of Elastic Stack, and we have been using Elastic Stack for this purpose for many years. There are many benefits of log management using Elastic Stack. Let's say you have a log file and you need to explore it to get to the root cause of any issue in the application. So how are you going to proceed? One way is to open the log file in a text editor or terminal and search the issue. Another way is to push the log data into Elasticsearch and configure Kibana to read this data. We can use Filebeat to read the log files, such as Apache access and error logs. Apart from system logs, we can also configure Filebeat to capture application logs. This way, using Filebeat or Logstash, we can push ...
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