June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 10m
English
The entire ELK stack can be installed as a standalone server or distributed across multiple servers. The installation steps are available at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/current/installing-elastic-stack.html. In my experience, even with minimal amount of data, a single VM running ELK stack often stretches the resources. My first attempt at running ELK as a single VM lasted no more than a few days with barely two or three network devices sending log information toward it. After a few more unsuccessful attempts at running my own cluster as a beginner, I eventually settled on running the ELK stack as hosted service, and this is what I would recommend you start with.
As a hosted service, there ...
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