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Learning ELK Stack
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Learning ELK Stack

by Saurabh Chhajed
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
206 pages
3h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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The ELK Stack

The ELK platform is a complete log analytics solution, built on a combination of three open source tools—Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. It tries to address all the problems and challenges that we saw in the previous section. ELK utilizes the open source stack of Elasticsearch for deep search and data analytics; Logstash for centralized logging management, which includes shipping and forwarding the logs from multiple servers, log enrichment, and parsing; and finally, Kibana for powerful and beautiful data visualizations. ELK stack is currently maintained and actively supported by the company called Elastic (formerly, Elasticsearch).

Let's look at a brief overview of each of these systems:

  • Elasticsearch
  • Logstash
  • Kibana

Elasticsearch ...

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